The timing couldn't be better:It was just the day before yesterday, as we were talking to a reader, that we mentioned it's only the Democrats who are constantly bringing up the specter of civil war - which the reader, a Democrat, said was "so far beyond hyperbole as to be surreal."
Well, today, the AP has presented us with this exchange:
It's the tea party world. But not everyone is buying their vision.So, what's really "surreal" out there? What's surreal is how Democrats appear to have a passive/aggressive death wish for themselves and/or this country if they can't get their way, that's what's surreal.
Some residents, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and even some Republican lawmakers say the bills are making Montana into a laughingstock. And, they say, the push to nullify federal laws could be dangerous.
"We are the United States of America," said Schweitzer. "This talk of nullifying is pretty toxic talk. That led to the Civil War."
A tea party lawmaker said raising the specter of a civil war is plain old malarkey.
"Nullification is not about splitting this union apart," freshman Rep. Derek Skees said. "Nullification is just one more way for us to tell the federal government: 'That is not right."
Look, here's an idea for all you Democrats/Leftists/Progressives/Liberals - whatever you guys think you are or are calling yourselves these days:
Why don't you try coming up with some new ideas and/or talking points so your every utterance and behavior isn't so completely predictable that you make even your defenders look like they don't know what they're talking about, huh? 
Really - it's worth a shot - just not in a civil war, O.K.?
Did you even notice how you inverted that lawmaker's topic being that the practice if not the principle of nullification that led to the Civil War, to that lawmaker being the one who called for Civil War?
ReplyDeleteYes, to answer your question, that is the very embodiment of "surreal."
BTW, since you seem to be repeatedly posting about me, I'll help you out:
ReplyDeleteLook, here's an idea for all you Democrats/Leftists/Progressives/Liberals - whatever you guys think you are or are calling yourselves these days
I'm a radical who is a Democrat by default, for pragmatic reasons.
I'm a radical who is a Democrat by default, for pragmatic reasons.
ReplyDeleteI figured that out already. But didn't you ever notice, during the darkest days of the Bush era, that standing with him was the most radical thing a person could do? I'm talkin' totally punk rock. Say "I like Bush" and the piano player stops.
The only thing better was The Ramones and Reagan, but that's only because Bush is more "street".
(You KNOW I'm laughin' right now, don't you?)