As the wheels of the ObamaCare wagon keep splintering and coming off, another gauntlet has been laid down. And this one may spark other states to start using their own Constitutionally given rights to keep the yoke of Washington from invading their state budgets and economies.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has indicated that he is willing to use states’ rights protections as a weapon to counter the possibility of a federally run health care system.

From the Star-Telegram.com:

AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as “Obama Care.” But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a “number” of states might resist the federal health mandate.

“I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying ‘no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,” Perry said. “So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.”

More and more governors are starting to realize the impossible demands, mandates and costs that being willing appendages of the federal government cost them and their communities. And that maybe the key to finally reversing Washington’s power over sovereign states.

Step by step, folks.