It looks like the Texas House is not all too happy with Rick Perry and his talking of leaving the union, so they gave Perry his own secession – the removal of his office from the state budget:

House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry’s office budget Friday in order to help veterans and the mentally ill.

With little debate, the House on a voice vote approved erasing 96 percent of the nearly $24 million that budget writers had recommended for Perry’s office operation over the next two years.

Some Democrats cast the House’s move as a rebuke of the governor’s recent comments about Texas seceding from the Union.

Even Republicans went along with it:

However, most Republicans said they went along simply to speed debate of the state budget – a debate that could last into Saturday.

“At the end of the day, the governor will be fully funded,” said House GOP caucus chairman Larry Taylor of Friendswood.

Sure it was to “speed debate”. Actually this was one of those “if people like it then I voted for it, if not then I didn’t mean my vote” type deals politicians love to play.

But this does remind me of when Dick Cheney tried to claim he wasn’t part of the executive branch, so Rahm Emanuel put a motion in to strip his funding from the federal budget. Republicans try to make up their own rules, leaving Democrats to enforce the actual rules.