Community | July 24, 2009 | 4 comments

Gov. Perry: Texas will invoke States' Rights to fight Heathcare Plan

source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/72389.html

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Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states' rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be "disastrous" for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as "Obama Care." But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a "number" of states might resist the federal health mandate.

"I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying 'no' to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare," Perry said. "So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats."

Perry, the state's longest-serving governor, has made defiance of Washington a hallmark of his state administration as well as his emerging re-election campaign against U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 Republican primary. Earlier this year, Perry refused $555 million in federal unemployment stimulus money, saying it would subject Texas to long-term costs after the federal dollars ended.

Interviewed after returning from a trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, Perry spoke out against President Barack Obama's healthcare package less than 24 hours after the president used a prime-time news conference Wednesday night to try to sell the massive legislative package to Congress and the public.
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4 comments // Gov. Perry: Texas will invoke States' Rights to fight Heathcare Plan

  • courage
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      courage  

    • god bless texas
      Why does anyone want the federal goverment to be in charge of health care.Look what they did to social security they changed the rules and stole the money now it is just a money hole.Look at how they have run the V.A. hospitals look how they screw up on medicaid and medicare you really want ignorant soulless empty goverment drones in control of your healthcare?
      Sorry grampa your to old to waste money for that operation heres some cheap morphine and a one way ticket to the Obama hospice.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • chasingame
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      chasingame  

    • @ WakeUpPeople.... Exactly what I was thinking. All those fortune 500 companies freely polluting Texas and using it's underpaid labor to fatten up a few wallets will have no one left to work for them. What will they do? Wait a minute... There will probably still be plenty of illegal immigrants willing to work for subsistence wages. Those companies will be OK down there in Teabaggerstan. We worried for nothing!

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
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      WakeUpPeople  

    • Probably the stupidest move ever. If Texas refuses to allow the public option, the lower and middle classes will pack up and leave to a healthcare friendly state. Who then would be left to serve the rich folk?

    • 2 years ago
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