Just secede already: The obstructionists aren’t going anywhere. Maybe we should

Salon ^ | Oct. 20, 2013 | Chuck Thompson

[steelhead_trout]

We don't want to live in Ted Cruz's America. He doesn't like ours. Maybe a split really is inevitable — and right

Yes, I know Michele Bachmann is from Minnesota and Steve King is from Iowa, but all this proves is that in the 150 or so years since the Civil War, the vituperative Confederate agenda of anti-Americanism has managed to spread its irresistible redneck poison into benighted pockets across the country. Kind of like Waffle House.

But to deny that the current attack on the federal government isn’t part of the hidebound Confederate agenda is to ignore the people who have engineered it and whose sedition will be rewarded with reelection

Much as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell did in 2010 when he said that the “single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president,” Meadows’ legislative gambit revealed a man and a party absorbed in a classic state of Southern pique. It’s a pathology sadly worthy of Calhoun and his whole sorry legacy of tantrum-throwing quack parliamentarians who want to continue enjoying all of the benefits that come with being part of the United States without having to make any of the necessary sacrifices or compromises.

[bert]

I’m counting on the Big’un to destroy LA or San Fran and solve that problem

[rockrr]

Don't you realize that your posts clearly show the opposite of what you claim?

[AceMineral]

Those were common attitudes of the time. It wasn’t the change in attitude that destroyed the second KKK it was that the leadership was embezzling membership dues, and one of the higher ups was experiencing the charms of younger women even though the KKK was firm advocate for the proper respect of white women.

[cripplecreek]

Yeah whatever, Woodrow Wilson’s Klan patsys were regular old sweethearts.

[bert]

I have had the somewhat strange experience of observing closely immigrants from Liberia. They have established a community of roughly 300 in nearby Johnson City. Many came as refugees in the recent Civil war. Im pretty sure they are Christian.

They have a shoestring business of shipping used stuff to Liberia. They have very good suppliers at yard sales.The black American container drivers are amazed at their enterprise., They appear to be ordinary blacks but their constant jibber jaber is incomprehensible.They have a radio with “right wing” talk radio. They are not the normal black community (they are very very black)

[hosepipe]

[elkfersupper]

Fine. Get out of here and take your proven-poisonous and proven-worthless crap elsewhere.

[ohioman]

I am proud of my confederate ancestors, especially the ones who rode with Quantrill after a few family members were murdered by Red Legs from Kansas) - at least they fought. In comparison, I have done nothing. I hope to change that.

[cripplecreek]

I’ve worked with a few Nigerian Christians. Interesting people, very Christian, very conservative, and damn hard workers.

[ontap]

Yea! That would be Austin and the border counties!!