The right wing mantra: If at first you don't secede . . .
By Dana Milbank
WashPost
Sunday, August 8, 2010;
Vacationing on North Carolina's Outer Banks this week, I've been thinking about how different things will be here when the South secedes from the Union.
The Confederates, I anticipate, will order Elizabeth's Café & Winery to banish the Maine lobster tomato caprese in favor of fried catfish. The lattes at Duck's Cottage will likely be nullified and replaced by sweet tea. Inevitably, the Sanderling spa will be ordered to discontinue its Vinyasa yoga classes and instead open a shooting range.
Happily, there is as yet no sign of imminent hostilities at the seaside; Escalades with Jersey plates continue to ply Highway 12 unmolested by rebel artillery. But you wouldn't know things were so calm from the words spoken by Republican primary candidates lately. Here in the South, they have been campaigning under a bizarre theory: nothing succeeds like secession.
The latest offender is Rep. Zach Wamp, who ran unsuccessfully in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Tennessee. "I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government," he said on July 23 in an interview with National Journal's Hotline.
(More here.)
WashPost
Sunday, August 8, 2010;
Vacationing on North Carolina's Outer Banks this week, I've been thinking about how different things will be here when the South secedes from the Union.
The Confederates, I anticipate, will order Elizabeth's Café & Winery to banish the Maine lobster tomato caprese in favor of fried catfish. The lattes at Duck's Cottage will likely be nullified and replaced by sweet tea. Inevitably, the Sanderling spa will be ordered to discontinue its Vinyasa yoga classes and instead open a shooting range.
Happily, there is as yet no sign of imminent hostilities at the seaside; Escalades with Jersey plates continue to ply Highway 12 unmolested by rebel artillery. But you wouldn't know things were so calm from the words spoken by Republican primary candidates lately. Here in the South, they have been campaigning under a bizarre theory: nothing succeeds like secession.
The latest offender is Rep. Zach Wamp, who ran unsuccessfully in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Tennessee. "I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government," he said on July 23 in an interview with National Journal's Hotline.
(More here.)
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