Governor Greg Abbott Calls for Constitutional Amendments Convention

Or we can just secede amirite

 

I don't agree with that one either, but saying we would still have slavery today is wrong.

 

He stated segregation, not slavery.

 

Sharecropping lasted well into the twentieth century, so the demand for large scale farm labor was still there. Several pockets of the South didn't have electricity until TVA and the New Deal so diversifying from or even partially automating large scale agriculture might not have been feasible. Subcontracting bonded labor to more profitable farming or construction and industrial projects would have allowed for more supplemental income. I guess one of the bigger questions is how or if Southern banks and estate/bankruptcy courts would have valued the assets.

 

Thanks

 

It still obviously wrong.

 

And you can also wish you win the lottery, since both have about the same chance of happening.

 

They do have that ability when they establish the agency and its powers. They can take away those powers any time they want. You don't want to believe it, but Congress specifically gives those agencies the power to make policy, mostly because it would be ludicrous for 500 people to try to vote on the tens of thousands of different issues that come up every year in a country with 300 million people.

 

I could never imagine that someone could come along so soon and make me reminisce on the days of Governor Rick Perry. Don't even get me started on our criminal Attorney General Paxton.

As far as your convention goes, Commodore...good luck little skipper.

 

Why is it every so often republicants roll out some new version of the contract with america? They had a chance to balance the budget during the shrub years when they had the white house, congress and supreme court. But I guess that
wasn't high on the to do list. Hell they even increased the federal government during that time.

Same old gop bull, just a different year.

 

I thought Abbott was supposed to be the smart one. This is more a Costello move.

 

Abbott is concerned that the neo-confederates/racists, primitive Bible readers, immigrant bashers, elite folks pushing or dupes believing in econ 101/ trickle down , climate change deniers, gay haters, etc. have had their day.

They hope to be able to hang on to their "values" in a few of the Southern mainly southern states plus Idaho and Utah etc. without the Constitution or the overwhelming beliefs of the rest of the country interfering with their right wing wet dream.

And believe it or not he sees the hapless Dubya and like Phil Gram and the benighted "oops" Perry thinks why can't I be president some day, so how can I make myself look like a contender.
.

 

Sounds like Abbott is getting his legal advice from that wiz AG Paxton.

 

I don't see why you guys hate Abbott so much, don't you know that he's a centrist? He's actually to the left of John Kerry, in fact he's right about where Nancy Pelosi is politically.


I dunno, I really liked that "Obama is a Republican" nonsense in the other thread, thought I'd try out something similar here.

 

i think they should take 50% of the delegates in proportion to the ratio of votes for a state, not a winner take all delegates.

i presume that more people would vote in states like cali/NY/texas/ where the outcome is already decided every election.

 

This is just posturing by Abbott. He knows that none of this has any chance of happening.

 

How do we get stuck with idiots like this as governor?

DD

 

Personally I'm for abolishing the Constitution. But that won't happen.

As for these...

I could be for those. Or at least, not passionately against.