Secede.

The New York Times:
With Stickers, a Petition and Even a Middle Name, Secession Fever Hits Texas
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: November 23, 2012

Some conservatives in Texas have been asking ... how to secede.

Secession fever has struck parts of Texas ...

A petition calling for secession that was filed by a Texas man on a White House Web site has received tens of thousands of signatures, and the Obama administration must now issue a response...

treasurer of the Hardin County Republican Party: "the fundamental cultural differences between Texas and other parts of the United States may be best addressed by an amicable divorce, a peaceful separation.” ...


Residents in other states, including Alabama, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana and Oklahoma, have submitted similar petitions, though none have received as many signatures as the one from Texas...

But all the secession talk has intrigued liberals as well. Caleb M. of Austin started his own petition on the White House Web site. He asked the federal government to allow Austin to withdraw from Texas and remain part of the United States, “in the event that Texas is successful in the current bid to secede.” It had more than 8,000 signatures as of Friday..
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TEXAS SECEDE!  I think I signed the petition as did other non-Texans.  You never know.

I have long advocated secession.  Here are excerpts from several of my secession posts:

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
City States in America.

Once New York sets the precedent, all large U.S. cities should follow. They all have the same problem: lack of representation in the Senate proportionate to their large populations. Once cities started to secede the Congress would have no choice but to admit them as city states. If not, they could each become an independent country.  Cool.
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Friday, September 11, 2009
Rep. Joe Wilson should secede.

Rep. Joe Wilson is the jackass who two days ago cried out in the middle of an address by President Obama to a joint session of Congress: "You lie!"

... jackass Joe Wilson should secede. If his Congressional district does not like it, the district should secede. If his state of South Carolina does not like it, South Carolina should secede. It already knows how. Am I the only one to notice that the issue of secession was never resolved constitutionally? Just because the Union army won and forced the rebellious secessionist states back into the union does not mean that they do not have the right to secede. Let them. If Lincoln had been truly great there would have been no Civil War. Lincoln should have either resolved the matter or let them go. Does the United States of America really need South Carolina? Mississippi? Alabama? Louisiana? Even Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia? Let them take their peculiar institutions and go. GO!
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Two Americas? At least.

Let states and other municipalities secede. No, the American Civil War did not settle this issue. Show me the constitutional amendment, which addresses this. If Lincoln had truly been great there would have been no civil war. When slave states seceded, he should have let them go. He could have corrected some of the original mistakes while leaving the original sin of slavery where it belonged: with the slave states of the Confederacy. The peculiar institution would have ended in about twenty years and the Confederacy would have failed by then. Those states could have been considered for re-admission but on terms that would have made far more sense than what evolved out of the civil war.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Dumb States of America (DSA)

The old Confederate States of America (CSA) could join with some of the western states that are also dumb and form the Dumb States of America (DSA)...  Let states secede and form the DSA. Then they can produce as many guns as they want, leave their children uneducated and have a nice weak central government like the old CSA. It was that weak central government that ultimately doomed the CSA.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Break up the United States of America.

It's obvious that we have two incompatible views of governance: central v. decentralized.  This is the cleaned up version of what we are.  Then each of the new components can create a government to their liking.

Geographically, the good old USA does not lend itself to this divide, so three, maybe, four new nations could spring from the grand old 50 states...

It makes a lot more sense than the mess we currently have.  On to the constitutional conventions!
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Romney: best Republican candidate since Eisenhower.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
We elected the smart guy
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I was first eligible to vote for president in 1972.  Since then Republican candidates for president have consistently been dumb for the office. It's harsh to say but it's true.  Romney seems to be the most intelligent Republican candidate since Nixon and the best Republican candidate since Eisenhower.

Clearly, Since 1972 the most intelligent candidates overall have been, chronologically: Carter, Clinton and Obama.

The basic requirements of the job are intelligence, executive experience and communications skills.  That's pretty fundamental stuff.  To continually nominate people who were less intelligent than the office requires is irresponsible.  The Republican party is a minority party by its nature being the party of the rich.  It has cynically cruised through a series of silly issues to get people to vote against their own best interests.

Intelligent Republicans do not want to debase themselves running for president so the party is limited to dummies or expedient cynics.

Mitt Romney is the first Republican candidate I could even consider.  The others have been completely unacceptable.  That combined with the disastrous dysfunction of President Obama and the absurdity of the Electoral College, which makes my vote in New York meaningless, I will probably vote for Romney first thing in the morning before I lose my nerve to do so.

Romney: Reagan with brains. A non-endorsement.

Mitt Romney may be the first Republican candidate for president since Nixon who is intelligent relative to the job.

I still don't understand why Romney is not more popular.  He's good looking and well spoken like Reagan and with a much better family.  And he has good hair.  Isn't that what it takes?

I wrote in September 2011 that Romney can win.  I still think so.  I might even vote for him.  I've finally accepted that the Electoral College makes individual votes in most states, including New York, irrelevant.  Romney and Obama are running for president of Ohio, which must have the stupidest voters in the country.  They allowed themselves to be duped into voting for Bush the Younger in both 2000 and 2004.  Ohio gave both victories to Bush.  The deciding issue in each election was one of those moronic social things that people get worked up about to rationalize why they are voting against their own best interests.  In 2004 I think it was homosexual marriage.  In 2000 ... who remembers.  Something stupid.  Ohio is stupid.

Liberals get themselves duped, too, which is why I'm dumping Obama.  I might vote for myself or if I'm feeling lazy in the voting booth I might vote for Romney.  The environment is always an issue on which I can depend on the Republican candidate to totally revolt me and Romney has done it this year.  Obama says much of the right stuff but he did not deliver.  Plus, he's such an expedient wimp that he tries to outdo Romney on junk like burning coal, exploiting public lands and drilling off shore. With a Democrat like Obama who needs a Republican.

So if I'm going to have a Republican president maybe I should get the real thing.  At least Romney has run businesses, which is more than Reagan ever did.  And maybe Romney will come through on the environment in a Nixon going to China sort of way.  Maybe Romney can bring the knuckleheads in his own party around to some substantial improvements, the kinds of things that Obama talks himself out of before he even gets started.

I'm pretty sick of Obama.  Too bad.  He's such a smart guy.  He knows what should be done but cannot get it done.  He's a congenital compromiser and the worst negotiator of all time.  Except for that mess Obama care, which he stuck us with instead of single payer universal health care, his policies are indistinguishable from what Bush would have done, especially bailing out GM and Chrysler, which was a golden opportunity to fundamentally change the auto and energy industries.  Obama never even considered that.  And he dealt with the financial industry like a Republican.

Obama promised change we can believe in and to change the way in which the federal government operated.  Obama failed miserably based on his own criteria.  Dealing with Congress is part of the job.  Blaming the opposition is not acceptable, especially when Obama's ineptitude prevented progress in the first half of his term when his party controlled Congress.  That is what enabled the opposition to take control of the House of Representatives.

In the immortal words of that great screw up, Al Gore, who lost the unloseable election: it's time for him to go.  Back to Chicago, Hawaii, wherever Obama wants to pretend that he belongs.

Barack, we hardly knew ye.