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"Texas could exist without the United States but the United States cannot exist without Texas." -- Sam Houston

treadlightly wrote: The challenge is to find Jeffersons and Washingtons to champion the cause, and to keep the tin foil hats out.

I heard a candidate for President ask where the Washingtons, Jeffersons, Lincolns, Jacksons and Johnsons were these days. I believe he said they were all playing basketball.

I want to know where the Pat Paulsens are these days!

Bitter Clinger wrote:This has suddenly become a very hot topic apparently:

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/201 ... cceed.html

Fascinating read, but flawed, at least in this respect. We would not be trading tyrants 3,000 miles away for those in Austin. If Texas is so unique, so "conservative," we would be sending to Austin, presumably, those who are like most of us. With a few exceptions, our Congressmen reflect us, our legislators do as well. They are elected by us, after all.

Wars are won by economic power, to produce materials for, and populate armies, navies, air forces.

Having lived with term limits in a statewide basis for a couple of decades, I cannot understand why that concept is so often seen as a panacea, or cure all. It's been a disaster in California as far as I am concerned.

1. Office holders spend much of the time from inauguration plotting and scheming for a new office, and 2. Nobody stays in a job long enough to learn how things work, the result being that the entrenched unelected bureaucracy tells each crop of newbs how they should do things.

If somebody doesn't perform satisfactorily, it is up to his or her constituents to impose a term limit. I realize sometimes a Sheila Jackson Lee, or Nancy Pelosi results. That is their constituents concern. That district was drawn to elect that person.

OTOH, we also get in office dedicated folks who stay around long enough to learn what they are doing. Sam Rayburn, Gerald Ford, John Nance Garner come to mind.

I completely oppose messing with Article 3 judge life tenure. The problem doesn't arise when they should leave but when they are selected. I may be the only person in the country outraged by the election of Alcee Hastings to 11 or 12 terms in the House from Florida AFTER distinguishing himself as one of only half a dozen or so US District Court judges in history to be impeached and removed from the bench, and for bribery, for crying out loud. This lamentable record says more about the voters in Florida than him. The mechanism of the Founders has served us well, albeit imperfectly, but no tinkering is likely to improve on our results. More care in nominating and confirming would be much more effective.

Actually, we should use more care in selecting voters so the genius of the Constitution can once again be realized.

One of my buddies wears a t-shirt that says, "Secede? ****, You're lucky we don't invade!" printed over the familiar outline of the state.