I can’t help wondering if Republican governors have a contest on to see who can say or do the stupidest thing. Take Texas governor Rick Perry. This is his latest entry:

“Millions of Texans… are tired of Washington, D.C. trying to come down here and tell us how to run Texas,” Perry said at a press conference about his decision. “The 10th Amendment was enacted by folks who remembered what it was like to have a very oppressive government, to be under the thumb of tyrants in an all-powerful government. Unfortunately, the protections it guarantees have melted away over the course of the years… I believe the federal government has become oppressive. I believe it’s become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state.”

So when exactly did this happen, guv’nor? Obama pulled it off in less than 90 days? Or does the credit belong almost entirely to George Bush? Or is it that Clinton did it and it just took Perry eight years and counting to finish figuring it out?

Regardless, the fact remains that the governor of (don’t mess with) Texas is mad as hell, and he’s not going to take it anymore.

Will Texas succeed in seceding? Stay tuned.