Georgia Secession: Another Red State Flirts With Leaving Union

My most recent Comment was a series of small jokes riffing on a big joke, namely a moronic suggestion by the governor of Texas that his state might secede from the Union on account of the tyranny of slightly higher marginal tax rates for the rich. It was a thin reed to build a whole piece on, but it was all I had.

I should have looked harder. I'm usually a careful reader of Talking Points Memo, but I had somehow missed Brian Beutler's April 16th post, in which he brings the startling intelligence that the Georgia state senate, by a 43-1 vote, has passed a resolution that mixes three parts inanity and one part prospective treason into a Kompletely Krazy Kocktail of militia-minded moonshine and wacko white lightning--a resolution that not only endorses defiance of federal law but also threatens anarchy and revolution.

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