My friend Meghan was fretting about the risk of additional terms by Governor Rick Perry. Glancing at his propaganda site, the first thing I see is something about a push to amend the Texas constitution to make it harder to raise taxes.
IMHO (sorry Meghan), this is a good thing. There is no place in the United States that is under-taxed, quite the opposite is true, so anything that makes it more difficult to raise taxes that are already too high is something I can get behind.
That said, the guy is a politician and I know better than to think based on a paragraph of prepared slickness that he could be trusted with anything. An unlit cigar, a butter knife, a broken harmonica, let alone a whole state. If he's doing anything right, it's likely an accident, being done for entirely the wrong reasons, and/or something he tried to get out of but failed.
But speaking of amendments, it's critical that we don't allow ourselves to have another President of the United States come out of Texas. Since Texas' repeated threats to secede are just so much hayseed talk, I've come up with a plan that can safeguard America, and for that matter the world, until the 28th Amendment banning Texans and illiterates from the Presidency can be enacted.
Ozzy Osbourne is from England, and so cannot use the Texas governorship to catapult himself onto the national stage. He's at least as articulate, thoughtful, sober, industrious and virtuous as your average state governor, plus he's such a whore for a attention there's no way he'd turn the gig down.
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