Discussion: Texas Guv Pushes Constitutional Convention To 'Rein In' The Feds

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stupid is as texas does

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Abbott definitely wants to run for President

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“Now it is Texas’s [sic] turn,” Abbott wrote.

What’s with the “sic”? “Texas’s” is correct. It’s not like there’s something called a “Texa” and this is a whole bunch of them - “Texas” is a singular noun that happens to end in -s, and such nouns take an apostrophe-s in the possessive. Listen to how you pronounce it: it’s “tek-suss-izz” plan, not “tek-suzz” plan, and the extra “izz” corresponds to the apostrophe-s ending.

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I read a biography of Bill Clinton a long time ago titled, “First in His Class.”

Those days are LONG over.

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How did the Confederacy die again?

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Dumbass Pol elected by DumberAss voters…

an intended consequence…

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For those of you who are pining for the glorious days of the Articles of Confederation, I give you…

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There is no dumb like TX dumb, I suspect there has been lead in the water supply of TX for decades.

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Of what country?

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Actually no, the possessive of Texas is Texas’.

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Anyone who has ever taken a freshman level college economics class knows that a balanced budget at the Federal level is a stupid, stupid, idea.

…and yet, not a single Republican seems to know this.

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Although few here will agree with me, I think this plan will have legs if taken up by groups who disapprove of the growth and over reach of the Federal government.

I have a feeling that mays of our founders, Presidents, and legislators who served before 1900 would approve of this.

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Strunk’s Elements of Style would like a word with you about that.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/possessives.htm

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Sarcasm,right?

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Actually no, the possessive of Texas is Texas’.

Wrongo! See below:

Chicago’s definitive rules on how to add apostrophes to words with “s” sounds at the end

  1. It is now acceptable, nay, required, to add an s at the end of words that end with an s or z. Sorry folks.
  2. Add an apostrophe s to words where the s is silent.
  3. Add an apostrophe s to proper names that end in an s
    Kansas’s legislature
    but Lincolns’ marriage [this is different because “Lincolns” is plural]
    Decartes’s three dreams
    Euripides’s tragedies
    (Source: Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., 7.15–18)
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“The Texas Plan is not so much a vision to alter the Constitution as it is a call to restore the rule of our current one.”

Except at least half of those proposals are directly contradictory to the Constitution and would constitute a gross rewriting thereof (Nos. 2, 5, 6, 8 and 9). And I absolutely love that he started with one that even Rhenquist and Scalia (in the Lopez case and Gonzalez case) would tell him is fucking absurd.

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Aside from everyone knowing this goes absolutely nowhere, I’m pretty sure everyone knows this is Abbott’s first hint that he wants to run for POTUS in 2020.

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Nope.

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This is exactly what I came here to say.

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