Don't Tread on Me

This week, Texas declared (rather re-affirmed) its decision to from the union. I enjoy state's rights as much as the next fella, but need I remind Texas that the last group of state who decided to leave the union were forcibly "re-welcomed" back? Now the far-right Free Republic champions Oklahoma's recent resolution re-affirming their constitutional state sovereignty:

House Joint Resolution 1003 was authored by Republican Representative Charles Key of Oklahoma City and was championed in the Senate by Republican Senator Randy Brogdon of Owasso.

"The Tenth Amendment assures that we, the people of the United States of America and each sovereign state in the Union of States, now have, and have always had, rights the federal government may not usurp," the legislation reads.

"We now have an opportunity to be the first state to have it signed it into law," Key added. "Once the resolution is on the governor’s desk, I hope he will quickly sign House Joint Resolution 1003 into law. I also hope that when it is distributed to President Barack Obama and other elected officials of the federal government that they will recall the oaths to the United States Constitution that they all took and take heed.”

Can we possible be hopeful of any chance of Texas annexing Oklahoma? That would be awesome.