The Five States of Texas

For your edification, the five states are: Guns, Jesus, Bush O'Reagan, Country Music, and Austin. AMERICAblog is asking you to name the five states.

You may have heard about this hubbub:

If you don't have time for YouTube, here's what the perpetually terrifying-looking former Congressman Tom Delay says:

"Texas as a republic joined the Union as a treaty. There's a process in the treaty by which Texas could divide into five states. If we invoke that, and the last time it was voted on was 1985, if we invoke that, the United States Senate would kick us out and nullify the treaty because they are not going to allow ten new Texas Senators into the Senate. That's how you secede."

All in response to Gov. Rick Perry's suggestion that they should secede. Just to clarify, then, these teabaggers are merely the first fighters towards a new Civil War? I'm just clarifying, of course.

Don't worry, Texas, Chuck Norris has no problem being your new President.

Can I also just say that this is the difference between the right and the left. With the left, we protest and yell and shout, but know that, in the end, the democratic process will win out. With the right, if they don't get their every wish, they stomp their feet and threaten to secede?

And all I ever threatened to move to Canada.

Of course, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com has a great workup, of course, of how a Texas secession would play. Hey Nate! Is Perry running for President?

Texas Wants to Fight a Civil War

Gov. Rick Perry, participating in one of these tea-bagging events today, said, apparently, Texas can secede from the union. Thanks to Texas Liberal for the quote:

“Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that,” Perry said. “My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.”

Oh? Can it? Can it now? First Alaska, now Texas. Let me just make this clear: four months of unchecked political power in a party that you don't like is enough to secede...

...but eight years of ghastly human rights violations and unchecked fiscal or financial policy and we're just a bunch of crazy liberals?