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2011-05-25 Home Front: Politix
Feds Threaten Texas - Forbid TSA Groping, And We'll Shut Down Your Airports
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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-25 13:18|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top

#1 Update: Texas backed down. The senate leaders said they did not have enough votes to pass the bill.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-25 13:35||   2011-05-25 13:35|| Front Page Top

#2 The Republicans have a 2/3 majority in the Senate and House. It was that chickenshit RINO Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst who pulled this with the help of the Dems and a handful of RINOs.
Posted by The Other Beldar 2011-05-25 13:54||   2011-05-25 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Goes to show that just electing more trunks gains you nothing. You need the right trunks.
Posted by Iblis 2011-05-25 15:44||   2011-05-25 15:44|| Front Page Top

#4 And again the American People lose. One by one, O'bumble is taking away our rights, and no one is willing to stand up to him. Pretty soon we're going to be down to that last option - the cartridge box. Too bad - this was once a great nation. Too many freeloaders and too few patriots left, I guess.
Posted by Old Patriot 2011-05-25 17:07||   2011-05-25 17:07|| Front Page Top

#5 significant leagal?

Is that something like legal?
Posted by JohnQC 2011-05-25 18:46||   2011-05-25 18:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Protestors were blocked by capital police, but stood outside the senate chamber for several minutes, chanting: “Co-wards, co-wards,” Trea-son, trea-son,” and shouted slogans accusing senators and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst of being “federal pimps” and “scallawag trash.”

They vowed to vote out of office Dewhurst and the senators who opposed passage of the bill.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-25 18:55||   2011-05-25 18:55|| Front Page Top

#7 (in related news)

"I walked through … right behind me there was a grandmother — little old lady, and she was was patted down," Rep. Paul Broun (R-Georgia) said on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal."

"Right behind her was a little kid who was patted down. And then right behind him was a guy in Arabian dress who just walked right through. Why are we patting down grandma and kids?"
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-05-25 18:57||   2011-05-25 18:57|| Front Page Top

#8 It isn't just Obama who is doing this but the Federal Government lording it over us and trampling state rights. Just as the EPA thinks it has the power to compel state government to comply with their regulations or the Department of Education dictating terms to local schools, or the NLRB telling Boeing it *must* build airplanes in a forced-Union state.

This is the natural outcome of the 17th amendment under which all representation in congress of the states were stripped away. (Of course the states were stupid enough to ratify it...).
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-05-25 19:12||   2011-05-25 19:12|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Kojo Elmuter6051 2011-05-25 20:27||   2011-05-25 20:27|| Front Page Top

#10 
Posted by Kojo Elmuter6051 2011-05-25 20:38||   2011-05-25 20:38|| Front Page Top

#11 That Old Boy, Tom DeLay country club arrogant hole just signed the warrant to end his political career, even if he doesn't know it yet. His political future is deader than a roadside armadillo.

Dewhurst is politically DEAD MEAT - he has now proven that he is the Texas version of Fla RINO Charlie Crist, him and Speaker Strauss. We Conservative and TeaParty Republicans in North Central Texas and West Texas are going to run his Austin-Houston RINO ass out of Texas on a rail. There are a ton of people that hate the twerp for acting conservative but being for big government and catering to his Austin buddies in both parties, and now he's got even more of us riled up. We didn't bust our ass state wide and work to vote in a 2/3 GOP majority for him to go squishy and appoint Dems and liberals to legislative committee chairs, and then fold like an envelope under the the federal thumb like this.

He made a huge mistake and is only know realizing it: we got our backs up straight now, and are spittin mad.
Posted by The Other Beldar 2011-05-25 20:54||   2011-05-25 20:54|| Front Page Top

#12 
To Kojo:

Don't ever do that again.

We do NOT harass law enforcement officials at Rantburg.

AoS (moderator)
Posted by Steve White 2011-05-25 21:31||   2011-05-25 21:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Got news for you. When these "law enforcement officials" stopped enforcing the law, they damn well will be getting an ear full. You got that Steve White?
Betty,

We do not encourage or permit anyone to pass on the addresses of public officials to sex offender lists. That's called 'harassment'. It's ethically, morally and legally wrong. It's inappropriate behavior, and we don't do that at Rantburg.

Your argument is just another example of 'the ends justify the means'. I'm used to that in dealing with communists and progressives (but I repeat myself). I guess I have to be used to that as well when dealing with right wing fools such as yourself.

AoS
Posted by Betty Ulise3609 2011-05-25 23:07||   2011-05-25 23:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Got news for you. When these "law enforcement officials" stopped enforcing the law, they damn well will be getting an ear full. You got that Steve White?

Got even more news for you:

You can contact the Texas governor's offce here.

You can contact the Texas Department of Public Safety here.

You'll note that those are official Texas government offices you can give an earful to.

Here at Rantburg we debate, not intimidate.
Posted by badanov 2011-05-25 23:32|| http://www.freefirezone.org  2011-05-25 23:32|| Front Page Top

#15 You can contact the Texas governor's offce here.

You can contact the Texas Department of Public Safety here.

You'll note that those are official Texas government offices you can give an earful to.

From the heart of Texas... In the favored lingo of Rantburg... "Your too Fucking Stupid."

Badanov, that's for you Gabacho.
wr,

It's generally a very bad idea to insult moderators at a blog.

One more of these and you'll be banned from our blog.

This is the only warning you'll receive. Sure hope you visit your past comments before commenting again.

AoS
Posted by wr 2011-05-25 23:47||   2011-05-25 23:47|| Front Page Top

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