Thread: US News & World Report -Let the Worst States Secede--Goo

This is from US News & World Report Policy and Politics. I think that this "journalist"??? must be sniffing mustard gas.

Another of her articles compares Sherrod to Rosa Parks.

I will never buy, read or even pick up a copy of US News at the Doctor's office. Once an a while I like to try to understand what the left is saying - sounds angry to me. Is this an example of the previous Main Stream Media, or has this old flagship publication become a political rag for hacks?

Let the Worst States Secede--Goodbye South Carolina, Arizona, and Texas
By Jamie Stiehm

Posted: August 9, 2010
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Share ThisAll states are not created equal, as this summer's performances in Congress and other political platforms show anew. Some states are pretty great; some are just plain trouble. Take the following three, for example:

South Carolina has been a plague on the house of the Republic since the start. Fiercely protective of slavery even as a colony, it was the first state to secede from the Union. Apparently when you go down there, men still wax proudly about the firing on Fort Sumter, the final catalyst for the Civil War. And then there was the earlier beating in the Capitol: A South Carolina congressman back in those divided days caned Charles Sumner, the leading abolitionist senator from Massachusetts. In the 20th century, South Carolina sent arch-segregationist Strom Thurmond to Washington decade after decade to represent the Palmetto State. Right now, the state has given us two outspoken Republican senators--Lindsay Graham and freshman Jim DeMint. Graham just denounced immigrants who come to this country, as he delicately put it, "to drop a child." That degradation of political discourse shocked even the jaded in the politerati--but outrage is nothing new to defiant South Carolina, the last to surrender, flying that Confederate flag even to this day. Call me a damn Yankee, but South Carolina is always on the wrong side of history.

[See who supports Graham.]

You can keep Arizona, too. Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, brought the Grand Canyon state to a pretty pass by preparing to enforce harsh new immigration laws, parts of which were just struck down as unconstitutional by a judge. This is the hottest summer anyone can remember in that desert--and I don't mean the soaring temperatures. The way Brewer proposes to pursue and question people suspected of being illegal immigrants is pretty much un-American--and another sad outcome of how we as a populace have lost our bearings since September 11, 2001. (More on that to come in future posts.) The two Arizona senators, Republicans Jon Kyl and John McCain, are also part of the problem in Washington. Kyl, the minority whip, is aggressively obstructionist and persuades or coerces others not to give a glimmer of daylight to anyone or anything favored by President Obama. His opposition to confirming Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court is the latest case in point. As for McCain, he has changed his stance on so many issues that he is not the man he used to be in 2000. The once cheerful maverick is now running hard just to win re-election--just to be senator--but it's not clear what for anymore. [See who donated the most to McCain's campaign.]

[Check out a roundup of editorial cartoons on immigration.]

Texas, once its own country, should have stayed that way. To a visitor, it feels like another country--with very much its own culture, as if one needs a passport to cross its borders. Even if you're just changing planes in massive DFW airport, you know you're in Texas from the talk, dress, and swagger. Everything is big in Texas, an unhappy hybrid of Southern and Western culture. Yet they are a happy (if bellicose) breed amongst themselves, so much so that Republican Gov. Rick Perry actually talked about "dissolving" or leaving the Union. Wouldn't that be great? After the vale of tears Texas took the nation through, with the gift of George W. Bush, the Texas state of mind is best kept within its borders far from the nation's capital. At the least: no more gifts, please. Nor has Florida lived down the disservice of the 2000 elections deadlock.

Jonathan Swift, the master of satire, is no longer with us--so let me make a modest proposal: that the states that seceded--let them be gone! That means South Carolina, Texas, and even Florida as a bonus, along with the Deep South states that send recalcitrant Republican representatives to Washington with no intention of doing the nation's business. They are there to block, taunt, and undermine a president, a man from Illinois making social progress. This time, let's let them go without a fight. Oh, and we'll keep Virginia, more reconstructed than the rest, and give them Arizona.

http://politics.usnews.com/opinion/blog ... -and-Texas

that's so sad ... the poor author is nuts ..... really , their mentally ill , i hope a friend or family memeber is able to get that person some help ...

living here in the Carolina's I never hear people talk like that about race or anything that resembles it. This reporter is evidentally out of touch with reality or she has some really ignorant freinds in LOW PLACES.

They are there to block, taunt, and undermine a president, a man from Illinois making social progress. This time, let's let them go without a fight. Oh, and we'll keep Virginia, more reconstructed than the rest, and give them Arizona.

WOW! She is OUT TO LUNCH!

I added my comment on there

Social progress means hearing Rev. Wright preach Liberation Theology for 20 years , which combines Communism, something else, and Christianity all together. This fellow is either ignorant to this fact, or is an all out Socialist fanning the flames of racism.

Liberation theology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology

I thought it was satire until the last paragraph.

Let the Worst States Secede--Goodbye South Carolina, Arizona, and Texas

This sentiment makes me laugh every time I hear it from outside the state it's about because anytime someone within one of these states even *thinks* about it everyone goes batty, usually the same people playing the "good riddance" shtick the week before.

What-evah

But I noticed the author left out California. Oh yeah, that's a liberal state so it can stay in the Union?

Wow… What can I say? This poor woman needs some serious help, and she needs it right away, before she gives herself or her reader(s) a stroke. Still more proof, if any was needed, that the inmates have truly taken over the asylum.

This would be just another sad example of someone who is confused about reality, if the threat to America and its citizens from the dissemination of such mindless drivel was not so serious.

Having visited Arizona, Florida, and Texas many times, and having lived in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and California, I am shocked, but not surprised, at this person’s animosity toward anyone who does not fit the extremely narrow and rigid template of the ultra-liberal mindset. It must be really painful to carry around so much anger all the time, but maybe they enjoy that whole suffering thing...

There are some bad people wherever one goes, but to fixate on only the negative all the time is not healthy, mentally or physically. Unfortunately, many liberals have this perpetually grouchy, cup-half-empty, outlook on life.

Everyone who loves freedom should Boycott that magazine out of existence, and thus remove it as a forum for spreading such extremely biased mis-information to impressionable young minds.




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Underneath the article - this has to be a pro-illegal alien message, which is exactly what that message is all about - i.e.; bad mouth America at all costs, and make America and Americans out to be evil no matter what they do.

Yes, Americans are so evil that they've allowed illegal aliens to crap on them for many decades.

When Americans try to end the flood of terrorism from illegal aliens, THEN they're even more evil?

Or just maybe Americans are now acting like the parental citizens of their great nation, and letting the final blow go against the immature children inside their nation's house?

I say the latter.