Tea Party is the New Confederacy

[houndawg]

This is an interesting opinion in the WaPo.

Today there is a New Confederacy, an insurgent political force that has captured the Republican Party and is taking up where the Old Confederacy left off in its efforts to bring down the federal government.

No shelling of a Union fort, no bloody battlefield clashes, no Good Friday assassination of a hated president — none of that nauseating, horrendous stuff. But the behavior is, nonetheless, malicious and appalling.

The New Confederacy, as churlish toward President Obama as the Old Confederacy was to Lincoln, has accomplished what its predecessor could not: It has shut down the federal government, and without even firing a weapon or taking 620,000 lives, as did the Old Confederacy’s instigated Civil War.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... ml?hpid=z3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think the only similarity is that they're both losers. The tea party will bow down to their masters just as the confederacy did...

[grizzaholic]

This is an interesting opinion in the WaPo.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... ml?hpid=z3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I think the only similarity is that they're both losers. The tea party will bow down to their masters just as the confederacy did...

The "Confederacy" is better equipped this time around



just sayin'

[houndawg]

I think the only similarity is that they're both losers. The tea party will bow down to their masters just as the confederacy did...

The "Confederacy" is better equipped this time around



just sayin'

They don't have the votes. They lose and they know they lose.

Sniveling bitches.

[JohnStOnge]

Where exactly does the Constitution grant states the right to leave the United States?

A better question is:

Where does it grant the Federal government the power to force States to remain within the Union?

See, the way it was supposed to work is that the Federal government only has power explicitly granted to it in the Constitution. The idea of "implied powers" on the part of the Federal Government is...well...unconstitutional. One more invented concept to justify making the Constitution say things it doesn't say.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it say States are obligated to remain within the Union. And if it doesn't say it, they're not obligated. That's the way it was supposed to work. That was the idea. Had it been advertised as a situation where States couldn't leave the Union if they wanted to and that if they tried they'd be invaded then made to remain through force of arms the Constitution would never have been ratified.