Barry Smitherman, head of the Texas Railroad Commission, says he is preparing Texas for secession.

World Net Daily has an article on Barry Smitherman, head of the Texas Railrod Commission, who says he is preparing Texas to be an independent nation. You can read it at this link:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/texas-official-preparing-for-independence/#c2uwVppcUPGRMbvT.01

The article quotes Smitherman saying.

“We are uniquely situated because we have energy resources, fossil and otherwise, and our own independent electrical grid. Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation, an ‘island nation’ if you will, and I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity with energy, food, water and roads as if we were a closed-loop system.”

I guess secession is mainstreaming in the Texas Republican Party.