Let's Mess With Texas

A wise person (the name escapes me now) once said Texas is too small to be a country and too large to be an insane asylum. I think whoever said that was dead on but evidently in this day and age of the delusional right wing some people are conniving to have Texas secede from the union so they can have have their own country with lots of guns, no taxes and for some reason, no teleprompters.

So which looney right winger is stirring up this sentiment. One of those militia neo-nazi guys who blew up Oklahoma City? No, it's Rick Perry, the governor of Texas.

On the surface this seems like maybe not such a bad idea. Confining those people to a single area could only make things better for the rest of us. But then New Mexico would have to build a border fence to keep them out of the USA. On the other hand they would probably have a job for Norm Coleman of Minnesota so Al Franken could finally get down to the business of being a senator. And hey, did you hear about that Senator Burr from North Carolina who told his wife to take as much money as she could out of the ATM as a personal run on the bank. It's his own bailout program...take the money and bail out.

I believe in free speech and the right to protest but I don't understand these people. Tell me why they're asking for tax cuts? If they earn less than $250,000 a year (and by the look of them I think we can make the assumption that they do) they got a tax cut. Didn't they look at their pay checks? And their leaders like Rick Perry and that goofy congresswoman from Minnesota spout these unbelievable statements throwing out statements like herding college students into re-education camps (she was talking about Americorp) Obama brazenly ordering the killing of three black Muslim teenagers (Rush Limbaugh talking about the Somali pirates). Oh and they actually called these rallies the largest grassroots turnout in history. After all, they got 200 people in Rockford. That's only 4600 fewer than the amount of people who showed up for the Motley Crue reunion there. Largest in history? Did they see Martin Luther King's march on Washington in 1963.

The only consolation I can take in all of this is that the group that spouts this hatred have their teabag parties and has already judged the Obama presidency to be a failure is less than 25% of the country. As hard as Fox News tries to make it look like a silent majority we can take some comfort that many people who were supporters of GW Bush have now seen the light and come over to the side of humanity.

But back to Texas. You know how much damage the last governor of Texas did. You remember him. ...the guy trying to reshape his legacy after screwing up the entire world for the last eight years. Rumor has it when he left Texas he had a bumper sticker on his car that said "If You Think I was Bad, Wait til you See the Guy Replacing Me."

I booked Brian's flight into El Paso for his visit here in June. He'd better bring his passport.

I'm going to brew myself a nice cup of tea.