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Rush Limbaugh may have 20 billion listeners, but despite his signature slogan, Rush is not always right.
In fact, he made a pronouncement recently which is so far off the mark that it needs to be addressed.
Addressing a caller on one of his recent radio episodes, Limbaugh made the comment that "Texas is ready ... to secede from the nation because of Obama."
He's only half-right there.
Limbaugh and hundreds of other self-proclaimed conservative and libertarian media types such as Glen Beck and Michelle Malkin still view Texas' slide toward independence as some knee-jerk reaction to the election of a black man as President, even if they won't say it. I'll say right now that had John McCain, Hillary Clinton or almost any of the other leading candidates emerged as the winner, you'd still see this same reaction from Texans.
It's not about the color of the man's skin, or even his political party. It's his belief in Big Government.
Texas is ready to secede from the union, it's true -- but credit Lone Star State residents with having a little more depth. It's not about who's in the White House (although it doesn't help that the citizens of the Lesser 49 States and all those dead people ACORN enlisted to vote elected a raving socialist).
Texas is ready to secede from the union because our fellow Americans have also elected, in addition to Barack Obama, people like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Harry Reid, Charlie Rangel, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein. They have elected, and keep electing, people who believe in an all-powerful federal government that rules, rather than a government of limited power which governs.
Texas is ready to secede because many of the people we Texans have elected, who have promised to work to limit that all-intrusive government, have instead become enslaved by that very system -- people like George W. Bush, John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rick Perry, Tom DeLay and others.
There are a lot of media pundits out there -- some of them Texans, in fact -- who are making bank on making fun of Texans in general and the rapidly-growing secessionist movement in particular. Their barbs and zingers can be incredibly clever ... but interestingly enough, they refuse all offers for public debate on the subject. It's a whole lot easier to call someone names like "moron" and :mental midget" than it is to try and prove it.
What those pundits can't seem to grasp with their mental tentacles is that Texans have this weird notion that government causes more problems than it cures, and that history backs them up on that. Texans have this oddball idea that when we elect someone to represent us, we want them to listen to what we have no say, not ignore us while they answer their cell phone.
As Limbaugh's statement so eloquently indicates, people in the rest of the country still don't get it. And that, folks, is why Texas wants out.
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