When Bush last lived here full time, he was a media darling with sky-high approval ratings. Karl Rove had conducted a "front-porch campaign," inspired by the candidacy of William McKinley. Governor Bush waited for national GOP leaders to come to him at the stately whit...
Just got my weekly email from Time magazine with the "10 Most Popular Stories of the Week" on time.com. Opened it up to find a huge photo of Governor Rick Perry. The top story of the week was a piece called "What's all that secession ruckus in Texas?" (Full story...
Hardball host Chris Matthews called Perry's secession suggestions both "whacked out" and "a nincompoop idea" before introducing a segment featuring late night jokes about secession. Here's the segment. (I'll leave y'all to discuss amongst yourselves whether Matthews is also a little "whacked out", later.)
State Rep. Jim Dunnam, D-Waco, leader of the House Democratic Caucus, is shopping around HR 1383 on the floor right now. The full resolution is here, but here's an excerpt:
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the State of Texas reaffirms the pride of all Texans in both our one and indivisible National Union and in our one and indivisible State and the common heritage of both; and, be it further
So, this secession talk has picked up so much steam that someone told me a DPS trooper jokingly drew up a plan for how he'd police the sovereign state of Texas. I'm working on getting a copy of that. Meanwhile, the late night comedians couldn't resist working Perry into their monologues last night:
Governor Rick Perry, who's enjoying being a darling of the tea party movement, signed the first bill of the 2009 legislative session into law this afternoon. But all the reporters wanted to talk about is the flurry of attention he's getting for allegedly supporting secession. The governor cleared things up, saying he never said Texas should secede.
