I really don't think Gov. Rick Perry has thought this through, but he had the small crowd riveted with his rhetoric and, um, makeup:AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"
An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall -- one of three tea parties he was attending across the state -- that officials in Washington have abandoned the country's founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.
Perry repeated his running theme that Texas' economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the "federal budget mess." Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.
Perry called his supporters patriots. Later, answering news reporters' questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union, though he said he sees no reason why Texas should do that.
Maybe, just maybe, Perry hasn't figured out that should Tex-ass secede, that would likely give the Democrats in Congress a filibuster-proof majority. Maybe someone should tell him to be careful what he wishes for. Then again, maybe not.
Read the whole thing HERE.
More later.
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If they wish to secede, I hope they all can speak Spanish.
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