Monday, July 26, 2010

Should Congress Censure Wamp for Sedition?

Posted by on Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:49 AM

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  • Chattanooga Times Free Press
You know you've lost touch with reality when Ron Ramsey says you're talking crazy. Zach Wamp is drawing coast-to-coast scorn for telling Hotline that states might have to think about seceding from the union unless that socialist federal government backs off. At the Huffington Post, somebody's calling for Congress to censure Wamp for an act of sedition. On twitter, Alan Colmes says Wamp himself should secede: "I say let him go." Adding insult to injury, the Washington Post misspelled Wamp's name.

Wamp is desperately trying to take it all back. His remark lent new credence to the already widespread notion that he's off his rocker. "When I'm governor of Tennessee, of course we will not secede from the union," he says. That's reassuring. Ramsey calls Wamp's secession talk another example of his "over-the-top temperament and overheated, sometimes crazy rhetoric." But we think Ramsey's actually jealous that he didn't think of it first.

For nearly the past two years, these two princes of shamelessness have been trying to win the GOP nomination by pandering to the frothing far-right fringe of their party. Until Wamp's Hotline faux pas, no one had yet uttered the word secession. But when Wamp talked about meeting President Obama at the border (to stop a nonexistent threat) or when Ramsey vowed to give Washington the boot (even as the state was staying afloat with federal stimulus cash), that deserved just as much derision. Ramsey was doing it again on the stump Saturday even after Wamp stepped in it. Does he sound like the reasonable one of the two?

He predicted, "Folks, the November election is going to be a revolution. There's going to be a whole lot more governors like Arizona's Jan Brewer, Texas' Rick Perry, New Jersey's Chris Christie and Virginia's Robert McDonnell. Governors who will stand up to the Federal government and say, 'enough is enough, we're not going to take it anymore; the 10th Amendment means the 10th Amendment."

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