Let them Go!

(originally written 4/9/09)  


Texas Governor Rick Perry, supporting a "tea party" event for patriotic Americans this week, suggested that states may want to secede from the Union, because the federal government is "thumbing its nose" at the American people."  


No specifics as to the nose-thumbing. Lots of possible examples come to mind, but they belong to the period beginning in December, 2000 and recently concluded with the thanks of a grateful nation to the departed President Bush. So Perry couldn't have been talking about any of that; no he and others similarly afflicted managed to contain their outrage until recently.  


But let's all be reasonable, and let them do their jobs. If they continue to hold tea parties and in general to work themselves up, we may get lucky. These people are apparently so patriotic that they want to leave the Union. So let them go. Imagine a USA without the southern tier of states. Why, we wouldn't have ... uh, the southern tier of states.  


Thanks for nothing, Abe Lincoln.