Secessionist Talk: It Comes and It Goes

 Photo credit:  Gage Skidmore, Wikipedia

"Texas governor says secession possible".  (Oops, it's from CNN, 4/26/2009.  Probably not helping my case here.)

But now, "a pretty independent lot" dissipates like a vapor trail.

Photo credit:  U.S. News and World Report

Rick Perry Has to Eat Crow but Will Voters Notice Come Election Time?  (Woodgate's View, 4/29/2011).

Excerpt:  Perry’s adamant vitriol against the federal government was further pronounced at those Tea Party meetings two years ago when he said “ “We think it’s time to draw the line in the sand and tell Washington that no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas.” Yet since then, Think Progress’ Yglesias has pointed out that Perry has gone to the federal well more than once because the state was not “independent” enough to handle massive issues following Hurricane Ike back in Bush’s presidency and the drug-related violence occurring along the border in early 2009.