If At First You Don't Secede

So, as y'all may or may not have heard, you can petition the White House over the internet these days.  Any petition that garners over 25,000 signatures gets an official response from the Obama Administration.  It just so happens that a petition for Texas to secede from the Union has gotten a bunch of signatures--120,000 as of the last time I checked.  I had a passing interest in just what this petition had to say, so I headed straight for Google and got this:

Yup, that seems about right.



Bonus pic, via Paul Windle and the NYT: