Vermont Secede? How About Just Peter Welch?

National Review Online ^ | 04 April 2007 | Stephen Spruiell

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Earlier this week, Vermonters Ian Baldwin and Frank Bryan wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post advocating Vermont’s secession from the Union. Taxpayers should respond, “Go ahead, and take Peter Welch with you.”

Welch (D., Vt.), Vermont’s newly elected representative, has proposed a bill called the Carbon Neutrality Act of 2007. Should it become law, Congress could order government agencies like the State Department and the Pentagon “to use portions of their budgets to buy greenhouse-gas offsets and renewable-energy credits,” according to a report in the Burlington Free Press.....

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

3. Finally cracks down on the gas-guzzling U.S. military. Hundreds of Bradleys, thousands of Hummers, and not one single up-armored Prius. It’s about time we started billing America’s fighting forces for their irresponsible greenhouse-gas emissions and putting the money into developing a wind-powered aircraft carrier.

Up-armoured Prius....why does this mental image make me chitter with amusement?

[Vaquero]

Vermont Secede?

PLEASE!

[weegee]

How many carbon credits will we have to buy if we drop some nukes?

[RC2]

Great....now the Dem’s want the government to pay Al Gore his Carbon crap????

[Old Retired Army Guy]

Great idea. They could take Leahy, Sanders and Howard Dean with them.

[weegee]

Vermont Secede? No they should surrender to America’s enemies if they want a pantie waist military who can’t trample the grass when they march into combat.

[TNCMAXQ]

They should go, along with the other parts of America that side with the bad guys, like San Francisco and that whole area, Seattle, much of NYC, etc etc....

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I find it ironic that one of the States that contributed the most to keep the South from seceding, has had consistent rumblings about doing so itself.

[weegee]

Al Gore Junior is NOT my Pope.

[American_Centurion]

I would love to see more and more “blue” states call for secession. And to 4377 with “preserving the union” I say let them all go. We would be much better off without them.

[wastedyears]

Wind-powered aircraft carrier?

Have any of them even seen a sailboat? It would take numerous large sails to move a watercraft the weight of an F-18 Hornet.

[The South Texan]

Good and they can take California, Massachusetts, and a number of other liberal enclaves around the country with them.

[The South Texan]

Good and they can take California, Massachusetts, and a number of other liberal enclaves around the country with them.

[Holicheese]

How will this be done with all the people from NY, MA and CT drving up there to go skiing?
I guess you will have to park at the border and take buses that run on Ben and Jerry’s run-off.

Without tourism, Vermont will shut down.

[popdonnelly]

All the aging hippies from the Northeast moved to Vermont and now occupy it. See Howard Dean as an example.

End the Hippie Occupation of Vermont!

[Vaquero]

not to mention Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc.

[Tzimisce]

If Vermont is like most states, it can’t leave because it’s too far in debt and needs federal grant money.

[Vaquero]

I know guys who I worked with here in downstate NY. They call themselves Progressive which is their buzz word for Socialist without as much of the negative connotation (in their feeble minds only).

These guys all made good money under good old free market capitalism and then flocked to Vermont for retirement and political activism. It is a shame Vermont got such a raw deal.

[freedomfiter2]

How many carbon credits will we have to buy if we drop some nukes?

Nukes are carbon neutral unless you account for the people killed. In that case, they could be used as credits for other activities.

[The South Texan]

San Antonio is harldy a liberal hole in the ground. Now Houston is sort of in between. Dallas is almost there since all the conservatives have moved to the burbs. We do have Austin that is very liberal.