Secession, a tournament for GOP
By Dana Milbank, WashPost, Published: April 18
March’s NCAA playoffs are behind us, but the madness continues.
From Wisconsin, cradle of the Progressive movement, comes news that the state Republican Party — the party of La Follette! — has advanced a pro-secession agenda.
The party’s Resolutions Committee voted earlier this month in favor of a platform saying the GOP “supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin’s right, under extreme circumstances, to secede.” The resolution will now get a vote at the state party convention next month, raising the alarming prospect of a breakaway Badger State uniting with Ottawa in a military alliance that could disrupt the fragile balance of power in the Great Lakes.
Called the “state sovereignty” resolution, it is driven by the same sentiment that drives Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to ignore federal law and court orders on grounds that they do not apply in the “sovereign state of Nevada.”
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, opposes the resolution. He has in mind being president of the United States, and that ambition could be frustrated if his state were no longer part of the union.
(More here.)
March’s NCAA playoffs are behind us, but the madness continues.
From Wisconsin, cradle of the Progressive movement, comes news that the state Republican Party — the party of La Follette! — has advanced a pro-secession agenda.
The party’s Resolutions Committee voted earlier this month in favor of a platform saying the GOP “supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin’s right, under extreme circumstances, to secede.” The resolution will now get a vote at the state party convention next month, raising the alarming prospect of a breakaway Badger State uniting with Ottawa in a military alliance that could disrupt the fragile balance of power in the Great Lakes.
Called the “state sovereignty” resolution, it is driven by the same sentiment that drives Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to ignore federal law and court orders on grounds that they do not apply in the “sovereign state of Nevada.”
Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker, opposes the resolution. He has in mind being president of the United States, and that ambition could be frustrated if his state were no longer part of the union.
(More here.)
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