On April 15th, Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” with his stance against the federal government and for states’ rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, “Secede!”

An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three tea parties he was attending across the state — that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.

Perry repeated his running theme that Texas’ economy is in relatively good shape compared with other states and with the “federal budget mess.” Many in the crowd held signs deriding President Barack Obama and the $786 billion federal economic stimulus package.

Later, answering news reporters’ questions, Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from the union.

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Well, guess what? The governor’s mansion in Austin, Texas, which was badly burned by an arsonist is to be repaired — with 11 million dollars of in federal stimulus money.

Perry has railed against federal bailouts and what he called the free-spending, power-hungry ways of Washington. In January, he said Texas was endangered by Uncle Sam’s “audacity.”

In order not to be taken seriously, governor Perry should rescind the use of any of the $700 million plus, that Texas has received from President Obama’s stimulus package!

He won’t — because he is just another typical cheap Republican hypocrite — a Texas sized jerk!

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