was being celebrated I told my hubby that they're giving some great ideas to the secessionists in the US. When Yugoslavia was broken up I said it again.
You cannot go around the world breaking up other countries and not expect those ideas to take root among the fringe.
And now a man with a black father and a white mother is President.
Expect to hear more of this from the usual suspects.
The irony of Perry, Rush, Hannity et al's comments is that the genuine anger among some sections of the population is pent up anger from eight years of Bush violating said state rights and the constitution. Now the right wing is channeling this anger to the worst of the extreme right racists.
Where was Perry when Bush sent his National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan?
Where was Perry when Bushco invoked that clause from the 1863 National bank Act.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.htmlIn 2003, during the height of the predatory lending crisis, the OCC invoked a clause from the 1863 National Bank Act to issue formal opinions preempting all state predatory lending laws, thereby rendering them inoperative. The OCC also promulgated new rules that prevented states from enforcing any of their own consumer protection laws against national banks. The federal government's actions were so egregious and so unprecedented that all 50 state attorneys general, and all 50 state banking superintendents, actively fought the new rules.
But the unanimous opposition of the 50 states did not deter, or even slow, the Bush administration in its goal of protecting the banks. In fact, when my office opened an investigation of possible discrimination in mortgage lending by a number of banks, the OCC filed a federal lawsuit to stop the investigation.
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Perry et al aren't fooling anyone. They will not tolerate a black President - it's that simple.
I hope Texans deal with Perry. The last stupid Texas governor who tried this shit caused 600,000 deaths.