Comments on: The Fringe Party

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:15:37 +0000

“Its like 1964 all over again.”

Yes, exactly, great parallel. The Evers mistrial, war on poverty, Gulf of Tonkin, Philly race riots, and Civil Rights Act filibuster — it’s like the country is going through that all over again.

All because of a bill in the Georgia Senate primarily about gun control.

By: calling all toasters

calling all toasters — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:41:32 +0000

They would threaten to leave the country instead of seceding, but apartheid is no longer the law in South Africa.

By: Grumpymann

Grumpymann — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:16:17 +0000

This is not the fringe this IS the party.

By: Jaim

Jaim — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:18:42 +0000

Georgia and Texas are like the weak bully who tries to look tough but keeps asking someone to “hold him back.”

Leave. Good luck surviving without Federal roads, hospitals, prisons, and school money.

By: El Cid

El Cid — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:52:38 +0000

If you follow the links you find this:

Now, to be fair, the resolution passed because it was snuck unnoticed onto the Senate resolution calendar on the 39th day of the 40-day legislative session, when senators were trying to handle dozens of bills and scores of amendments. Most did not have an opportunity to read the six-page resolution, which in its description claimed to merely affirm “states’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles.”

No one was paying attention to this piece of crap.

For example, here is the First Reader Summary from the State Legislature site:

A RESOLUTION affirming states’ rights based on Jeffersonian principles; and for other purposes.

If you read the amendment text, it actually says that the imposition of martial law would be among the federal acts triggering the nullification of the Constitution.

Funny they didn’t think this necessary for the last 7 years after 9/11/2001 and the “Unitary Executive” and “Fourthbranch” Cheney.

By: News Reference

News Reference — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:29:14 +0000

The Republican Party’s Vice Presidential candidate’s husband belonged to a secessionist movement in Alaska.

The Texas governor is talking secession.

And Australian Murdoch has the one network to rule them all.

The funny/sad/sick part about Murdoch’s proto-fascist FOX network is that Murdoch would renounce his US citizenship for China and be a Chinese citizen tomorrow if he thought he could make more money and have more influence.

The lemmings that follow Murdoch’s stable of pied piper sociopaths don’t have a clue how meaningless they are to him.

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:14:08 +0000

[I don't like to censor stuff but I'd rather not even speculate on this topic. Not even remotely. -- Oliver]

By: ed

ed — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:55:20 +0000

If Texas and Georgia secede, I’ll dance a jig. And then get to building the biggest fuckin’ wall you ever seen on their borders.

By: PTCruiser

PTCruiser — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:41:13 +0000

The issue of their right to secede from the Union was settled on April 9, 1865.

By: Bruce Henry

Bruce Henry — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:21:19 +0000

I am so old, it wasn’t until I was a grown-ass man that the words “mulatto” and “Negress” went out of circulation. I even heard “quadroon” a couple of times.

By: Randy Brown

Randy Brown — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:17:25 +0000

Not merely a black man, OW. A mulatto! The product of sexual intercourse between a white woman and (gasp!) an AFRICAN man!! That – that’s UNNATURAL! An abomination before God!

In other words: same shit, different century.

By: jr

jr — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:17:12 +0000

Cons don’t want a man that isn’t white to marry their daughter and they don’t want a man that isn’t white to be president

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:16:27 +0000

I hope to god I’m wrong, but I think we could see the first ever US suicide bomber.

Why can’t we all just chill the fuck out?

By: justadood

justadood — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:00:25 +0000

Oliver…I’m thinking, not 1964…but 1856…

I’m starting to think Bill Clinton will have had it easy, with only 1 Tim McVeigh, and no national Television network egging him on to his action. What will happen to Obama, with Fox News around to egg on what might end up to be hundreds or more McVeighs, all armed to the teeth, and hating America and the dreams for which it stands?

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:47:13 +0000

Marlowe: “Then they pause to call for secession and violent revolution, and then go back to bitching about being painted as extremists.”

By: merl

merl — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:39:27 +0000

all talk, no action. typical cowardly wingnut reaction
Scratch a wingnut, a chickenhawk bleeds