Remember the story a few weeks back about Wisconsin Republicans holding a vote at the state convention to "affirm the right of the state to secede from the union" if necessary?
It turns out that Republicans will actually get to vote on that now this weekend, and now that it's had some time to sink in that the party will be voting on what is essentially the right to reserve planned treason at some later date, they can't run from it fast enough.
“This has been totally blown out of proportion,” said Michael Murphy, vice chairman of the 4th District Republican Party and a former chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a Ron Paul-affiliated outlet. “This is one sentence in one resolution out of 23 that were passed, it is one tag line out of a larger resolution discussing state sovereignty. At no point are we going to the convention and debate that we want to secede from the union, even though some paint that as the case.”
To be clear, the text of the resolution reads, in full, “BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we strongly insist our state representatives work to uphold Wisconsin’s 10th Amendment rights, and our right to secede, passing legislation affirming this to the US Federal Government.”
“We should remove it. Nobody wants to secede from the union,” said Todd Welch, chairman of the libertarian-leaning Wisconsin Campaign for Liberty and a member of the Republican Party. “Obviously, it is an option, but nobody wants to do that. We should focus on the real issues of stopping Obamacare, stopping Common Core, protecting gun rights.”
Wisconsin Republicans say they are not exactly sure how the resolution got through the caucus to begin with. “It was stuck in there by somebody, and nobody seems to know who,” said Welch. There was, they acknowledge, a states’ rights fervor in the air at their meeting, with the caucus voting to censure two state lawmakers who support the Common Core educational reforms and calling on them to resign from their position on the legislature’s education committee.
So these idiots are now shuffling their feet going "Well, secession of course is still an option but nobody would ever actually do it and all" and trying to have it both ways. Worse, nobody seems to know the identity of the brave, brave patriot who suggested this in the first place.
And the state of Wisconsin should elect these clowns in November?
I'm betting this vote is actually going to be a lot closer than people think it will be. And that should scare the hell out of all of us.
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I agree that it will be close because so many Americans don't know the Constitution or the history of the Civil War. It's sad what ignorance can do.
"stopping Obamacare, stopping Common Core, protecting gun rights.”
So
not only do we have a data point on how crazy/stupid one has to get
before the allegedly sensible Republicans step into cut you off, but we
have a restatement of the core Republican program: waste tremendous
amounts of time and treasure and talent in a futile effort to prevent
the working poor from getting access to decent health care, whip up the
states' rights goobers to put down a state driven effort at educational
reform, and ensure that no lunatic goes unarmed.
Sounds like a
winning program to me, but then I am the kind of Scandinavian style
strong union Social Democrat who gets denounced as a Third Way/New
Democrat by the hand jobs at the Daily Kos because I won't sign up for
their little pretend radical revolution.
In any case, while I
have the mic, today I received the bill for my recent adventure at the
emergency room: hospital demands USD 500, insurance offers USD 125,
hospital accepts and everyone is happy. Out of pocket from me?
Nothing.
Which just goes to show that the single biggest benefit
of having insurance is that a powerful organization will negotiate on
your behalf - the principle benefit of a union, as it happens - even
before the copays and coverage limitations come into play. Why on earth
the Republicans are so insistent on keeping the working poor out of
this system is a mystery for the ages. One begins to suspect that they do it for sheer spite.
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