All Our Messes Live in Texas

A petition asking the President to let Texas secede has over 70,000 signatures at the White House Web site (no word on how many of those signatures are non-Texans that wish Texas would simply “go already”). If Texas is willing to stand by its vote, and promise never come back, I’m okay with them leaving and I’ll sign it myself.

It would admittedly be a pity to see Austin go, but the rest of the state better hurry up and move. If I had to bet on Obama leading the country or Rick Perry, it’s a no-brainer. Sometimes people deserve to get what they ask for. Texas keeps talking about leave, so go already.

While they’re at it, take Dixie along for the ride. But again, there’s no coming back.

Looks like the Obama administration may have to respond to a petition seeking the green light for Texas to secede from the United States—one of 20 such requests filed on the official White House website since Election Day. At the time of the writing of this post, the Texas secession petition had garnered 25,318 signatures—above the White House’s self-imposed rules for requiring a reply.

It has 71,025 signatures now.

As our beloved Andy Cobb notes in a video he did about Texas secession a while back, Texas isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our Texas learning?

Even more about the Texas Miracle from the Star Telegram:

Texas has routinely topped the national growth charts, but the Lone Star State’s biggest cities are behind the curve in an annual ranking of literacy rates. Austin (tied with New York City at No. 22) was the only Texas city to crack the top third of the 75 cities ranked in the study of literacy resources by John Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University…. Plano (46) and Dallas (51) edged Fort Worth (54), which has seen its ranking decline from No. 45 since the study began in 2005. Arlington has likewise dropped, from 57 in 2005 to 64 in 2011, and Houston from 53 to 60. In the bottom 10 were San Antonio (66), El Paso (73) and Corpus Christi (74), just ahead of last-place Bakersfield, Calif.

David Badash has even more about the Texas miracle:

At this point the miracle seems to be that Texas has survived this long.

ABC Denver reports that petitions for dozens of other states to leave the Union have also popped up on the White House Web site:

The petitions are for dozens of states including Colorado, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, California, Ohio, Delaware and many more.

The Last Time Texas Left Was to Defend the White Race

We’ve always said here on AMERICAblog that Republicans hate our country and our way of life. And yet again they’re showing their true stripes. Speaking of which, here’s what Texas had to say the last time it seceded: