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14 years ago @ Vision to America - Showdown Between Texas... · 1 reply · +2 points

Under the first Texas Constitution, Texas maintained the rights of secession. When the state reentered the Union after the
Civil War, that provision was eliminated. Texas does NOT possess the state's right to secede. It is a fun old wive's tale, but false, non the less.

Also, the state had the option, at the point it entered the U.S. (1845) to break into five separate states. The citizens of Texas soundly rejected that, and it entered the Union as one state, giving part of its panhandle to Oklahoma to remain under the 36th parallel so that it could enter as a slave holding state.

You would think that if someone is going to make a claim about Texas, and our history, they would at least bother to fact check their claims.

14 years ago @ Big Government - The Last Pre-Tuesday D... · 0 replies · +1 points

The only thing Ron Paul should do is check into Shoal Creek Hospital as quickly as possible. He can share a room with Shiela Jackson Lee.

14 years ago @ Big Government - ObamaCare Architect: C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Let's not forget that Robert Creamer, the Congresswoman's husband, is a convicted felon who seems to enjoy invites to the White House. Just one more criminal that Obama likes to surround himself with. Creamer wrote his book (the Dem playbook) from jail.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Arizona House Speaker ... · 7 replies · +51 points

Last night I was watching a segment of the "Border Wars" program. A BP was explaining to the interview how they went to the places where they know illegals are waiting to cross over into the U.S. There were videos of illegals sitting on the ground, waiting for the cayotes to pick them up for transport to el Norte.

The BP agent then went on to explain that they had to try to talk the illegals from crossing over and warned them about the dangers (this was in Arizona) of the desert. Then I about fell out of my chair. The BP agent said that if the illegals told them that they were going to try anyway, the BP are then required to tell the illegals how to prepare themselves for the desert, and what to take with them, so they would be safe.

WTF? We are telling illegals how to stay safe as they break into our nation?

14 years ago @ Big Government - Romney Could Win GOP N... · 1 reply · +2 points

Romney: I will repeal Obamacare.

Obama: Why would you do that, Mitt, when I used your Massachusetts health care advisors to design the Patient Affordability Act to mirrow the Massachusetts health care bill?

14 years ago @ Big Government - Romney Could Win GOP N... · 0 replies · +3 points

Ummm, where did I say you were a Romney fan or that he was what you wanted for this country? Or do you have the capacity to read what isn't written?

Now here is the bottom line: men like Romney are NOT men of conviction. He sold his own [claimed] conservative convictions out when he agreed to sign a bill that was not what he wanted in order to appease his opposition and to gain anything, something, that he could hang his hat on. To this day, he continues to support Romneycare. Please show me where he has EVER said that he was forced into the legislation as enacted. Because you can't. And "the Devil made me do it" doesn't quite cut it.

There is an old adage that describes principled men: I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Romney Could Win GOP N... · 5 replies · +4 points

So basically what you are saying is that Romney can be coerced and intimidated into rejecting conservative values by mere threats from the opposition? Hardly a point in his favor. Hardly makes him a Governor Walker, who has thwarted his opponents every step of the way, does it?

What you have basically done is prove that Romney is not a man of principal, he is a man of expedency. Is that what you want? Someone who will cave under heavy fire from the Democrats? If that is the mindset of the nation, then you might as well kiss this republic known as the United States of America goodby.

Here is the bottom line: Romney wanted Romney care, at all costs, so it could be his signature acheivement in Massachusetts. He sold out his [supposedly] conservative values to get it. He could have advised the populace of the impending costs to the state, and its citizens. He could have denied the individual mandate as unconstitutional. He did none of those things, instead, smiling at Ted Kennedy as he signed that disasterous bill. Now his state is paying the financial cost for his spineless actions.

14 years ago @ Big Government - Romney Could Win GOP N... · 7 replies · +6 points

Why would Romney repeal the very program that he, and his cohorts, designed? Or have you forgotten when Romney was saying he would issue exemptions to all 50 states, but quickly changed his tune to "repealing Obamacare" when it was pointed out that some states, like Massachusetts and California, would not want exemptions.

No Romney. Romney will only be SSDD.

14 years ago @ Big Government - GOP Challengers Go Aft... · 0 replies · +1 points

The doctor tells you that you have a terminal disease. You don't ask which one. Obama = U.S. = terminal Romney = U.S. = terminal.

It doesn't matter who drives the final nail in the coffin, either one of them will.

14 years ago @ Big Government - GOP Challengers Go Aft... · 0 replies · +3 points

The only reason Mitt Romney was not a "career" politician is because he LOST MOST OF HIS ELECTIONS.

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