Posted on 11/08/2004 11:17:35 AM PST by finnman69
We have chronicled the decline of Lawrence O'Donnell, as he shrieked incoherently at John O'Neill and denounced President Bush as unfit to be depicted on his television show, The West Wing. Now, reader Craig Knutson says that O'Donnell--who is not just an artiste but a paid commentator on MSNBC--is pondering secession:
Lawrence O'Donnell (I believe this is the Larry that talked on McLaughlin), said the "blue states" should over the next 20 years seriously consider seceding from the union, because the red states are welfare recipients without supporting the federal government.
I don't think a transcript is available yet.
Meanwhile, Minnesota's own Garrison Keillor, who has become more embittered and less funny with every passing year, no longer tries to hide his membership in the nut-bar left. Several readers wrote us about his Prairie Home Companion monologue on Saturday; Nathan Clark sent a transcript:
We're over it. We've moved on. We're just fine. The election was days ago. Days ago. Much has happened since then. We've practically forgotten about it here [laughter] in our rush to enter into new activities, new frontiers, new projects.I am now the chairman of a national campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to take the right to vote away from born-again Christians.
[enthusiastic audience applause]
Just a little project of mine. My feeling is that born-again people are citizens of heaven, that is where there citizenship is, [laughter] is in heaven, it's not here among us in America.
If you feel that war in the Middle East is simply prophecy fulfilled, if you believe that tribulation and suffering are just the natural conditions of life, if you believe that higher education is vanity, unnecessary, there is only one book that one need to read, if you feel that unemployment is -[glitch]- dependent on him and drawn you closer to him. [laughter] If you feel -[glitch]- lousy healthcare is a portal to paradise, [applause] then you don't really share our same interests, do you? No, you do not.
Sick. I don't think Keillor is the first "humorist" to use political extremism to keep his career going long after he stopped being funny. But whatever happened to Father Emil and that Lutheran guy Keillor used to talk about?
And finally, several readers have pointed out this column by Dean Murphy in today's New York Times, and have wondered: are Murphy and the Times suggesting that the assassination of President Bush is a possible solution to the Democrats' problems? Normally I would assume not. But Murphy's piece begins with the assassination of Lincoln, discusses the political impact of the assassisnation of McKinley, and concludes:
Professor Wilentz of Princeton said that even if the 2004 victory was an incremental one, that should not comfort the Democrats. He said Mr. Rove and Mr. Bush now have a chance to do what Hanna and McKinley never did: Lay the foundation for lasting Republican dominance.
"The Republicans are basically unchecked," Professor Wilentz said. "There is no check in the federal government and no check in the world. They have an unfettered playing field."
Until the next act of God, that is.
I don't know, maybe he was talking about a really big hurricane.
That would put me behind enemy lines. I live in the People's Republic of the Upper West Side.
Laura Ingraham covered this on her radio show this morning. The blue counties are full of welfare recipients and other beneficiaries of government largesse.
The blue counties can't survive on their own.
Hey! I used to live there too. 000 block of West 74th St.
I escaped.
not yet
;-)
What? Barely 40% of New Yorkers voted for Bush.
1)I, and many Southerners, support our succession from the union. This idiot Yankee is helping us more than we ever could have imagined.
2)Liebral Yankees forget that Southerners make up a huge proportion of the military-Kinda hard to be a world power without a military.
3)If we are only welfare recipients it is because of idiot Yankee fiscal and economic policies (Lyndon Johnson's "great society"- $3 trillion to urban areas-and they still want more). Furthermore, when you murder hundreds of thousands of southerners, burn entire cities to the ground simply to terrorized the public (Atlanta) and leave after doing a shoddy job of fixing the place, it is kinda hard for people to get back on their feet.
I seriously think that the red states should give consideration to taking over the blue states instead of succeeding. I say 25 years of saturation and they're red states too.
BTW, I have a HUGE Bush sign in my window. LOL
The numbers for federal tax dollars paid versus spent by state is listed here:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxingspending.html
I don't have time to do it right now, but it would be interesting to see how the red state/blue state comparison would correlate with this.
Me to Lawrence: "How much food do you think they grow in central park? How would you like to spend the next 5 years eating nothing but crackers and standing in a bread line? I'm pretty sure that we idiot red state people could arrange it."
I think you are right - and I do think it's a call to assassination, pure and simple...and from the language - I think there may also be a bullseye on Rove...
He - the writer - is skating on very thin ice of inciting assassination...he well knows this can energize some kooks - of arrange to get a kook in line for a scapegoat.
These people - socialist/Communists have been attempting to get control for several elections.This was their last shot...instead, they got shot down.
and they DO recognize that they are, essentially, irrelevent for decades - unless they resort to what this man is suggesting. And don't forget, sKerry was involved, in the 70's in a group that was discussing the assassination of several senators...These ideas do take root in these twisted minds.
Their religion is self, their god is themselves and there is no morality in their code. They are the black hats - they are capable of anything.
Another theme in his diatribe is to keep up the anti-Iraq rhetoric - no matter how it hurts this country or Iraqi freedom or our troops. These people would take this country to it's knees, if it meant their gain.
Yes, Virginia, they are unpatriotic...
What worries me is not the unhinged media types, nor the mouth-frothing academics. It's the hard, hard core left that will move from their stance of verbal support of the Islamofacists, to an outright operational alliance. I sure hope the FBI is tuned in to these groups and individuals.
I'm a taxpayer in one of the many red counties of upstate NY (upstate being anything north of Manhattan). Our tax money flows down the Hudson straight to blue NYC.
The only problem that I see is that the resulting "progressive nation" will soon be out of money and food and would be coming to us with demands to bail them out and send them welfare. Anyway, read this:
Unless we "close" the borders that is....:)
As a rule, but in the case of California the Central Valley went red and the southern areas went red -- they are the areas the food is grown in California (at least the one's growth hasn't taken over).
Very good points. Does anyone know if there are sites that identify welfare spending by state or county?
In the 1920's my grandfather a naturalized American citizen was denied his right to vote because as a Roman Catholic he was told by Democrats that he was not a "LOYAL AMERICAN" the threat was if my grandfather tried to vote or raised a fuss the local members of the KKK would maybe pay a visit . Well WW2 comes along & of the 13 men from Primrose Nebraska that served 5 were my uncles ,after the war the Democrats tried to pull the same stunt on my grandfather that they had before the war .
Unfortunately for them all 5 of my uncles made it back & told the Rats that my grandfather WOULD be allowed to VOTE & if the Klan paid the farm a visit they would come back to town & burn the town down .
The moral of the story is this : If you try to keep ME from voting as is my right as a CITIZEN of this country I WILL KILL YOU WERE YOU STAND MR.DEMOCRAT.
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