LOL: Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over healthcare

[wndycty]

Perry raises possibility of states' rights showdown with White House over healthcare
By DAVE MONTGOMERY
[e-mail]

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as "Obama Care." But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a "number" of states might resist the federal health mandate.

"I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare," Perry said. "So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats."

Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, has made defiance of Washington a hallmark of his state administration as well as his emerging re-election campaign against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Republican primary. Earlier this year, Perry refused $555 million in federal unemployment stimulus money, saying it would subject Texas to long-term costs after the federal dollars ended.
-snip-

http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1504240.html

[sakabatou]

1. How much more of an asshole can Perry be?

[bluestateguy]

2. Oh please do

Then all of the federal funding for the stimulus and virtually any other federal program can be diverted elsewhere.

I mean, Houston doesn't need the space program. I'm sure Florida can make better use of all of NASA's money that is invested in Houston. And Florida is a nice swing state.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Maybe he should put it to a vote first

He might be surprised that a lot of people probably would not agree with him (not that that ever really stops a Repuke like Perry from doing what they want to do anyway)

[damntexdem]

4. Goodhair Perry is an excellent example of state's wrongs.

;-) Y'all.

[kenfrequed]

5. Yeah sure Perry

All of the plebes are gonna rise up agaisnt the big bad federal government in a sequel to the civil war because they are so angry that the government is giving them healthcare at almost no cost.


Now some of the Hummer-driving gated-community lot might riot a bit over their anti-government ideology but I don't give a damn about the millionaires.

[Blue_Roses]

6. he has to be the dumbest man...

and that's a long list. I need to move out of this state:eyes:

[GoCubsGo]

7. Dumbest in Texas, perhaps...

We in South Carolina have Sanford, Graham, DeMented, and a whole bunch of others. You are not the only one who needs to move out of their state...

[braunfels]

11. Texas still way ahead

Unless you can top "W"

[NatBurner]

8. i never thought i'd say this, but i'm rooting for kay bailey hutchinson

:puke:

i've had about enough of our current dumbass governor

[Blue_Roses]

9. me too...

[Blue_Roses]

10. dupe

[Saphire]

13. LOL..I just said that to my husband not two minutes ago.

[burning rain]

12. Playing junior league Jefferson Davis, is Perry's way of winning the primary.

He'll let the frothier stuff fall by the wayside after he's re-elected, a surety in 2012.

[Justitia]

14. TX has the highest number of uninsured people in the country. He's an ass!

He's grandstanding for the wingnut base - I cannot stand him!