If President Lincoln had had a crystal ball, when told the South was seceding, he’d have said, “Woo hoo!”  Lord, I wish he had. Especially today.  Setting aside the thousands dead, cities destroyed, and money wasted, as decisions go, it was like parents who guiltily decided, once again, to take in their delinquent, worthless offspring, subsidize them forever, only to see their house later blown up by the meth lab the miserable ingrates built in the basement.  Today we were reminded again of that in the US Senate.

Senator (!) Jeff Sessions of Alabama is just the sort of “American” we wouldn’t have to have around had Lincoln been more prescient.  From the party that thought they could move heaven and earth with their candidate Sarah Palin, out slithers the vile and clueless Sessions, reminding us why the South doesn’t belong in a purportedly civilized Democracy and beating us over the head, for the thousandth time, for our arrogance and stupidity in thinking such creatures could ever be assimilated.  Nurtured in the fever swamps of racism and rebellion, grown fat and angry under a deluge of misguided federal subsidies, these icons of the land of trailers and cousin-breeding stepped forth today to once again embarrass us all for the very act of being white Americans.

You can’t blame Sessions, really.  It’s how he was raised, in a racist, third world hellhole that, due to liberal “empathy” and a willful blindness to evil, now arrogates to itself the status, always one-sidedly revocable, of a member of the United States.  His state, Alabama, along with its benighted Confederate neighbors, helped along by their appallingly dismal education levels, have become a immobile, angry, and disturbingly vocal impediment to human progress that nearly a century of lavish indulgences haven’t begun to erase.  The “War of Northern Aggression,” as its creepy, embittered losers still universally call it, still plague the rest of us with their prosperity-destroying “Right to Work” laws, their proud willingness to destroy the natural environment, and their openly racist bloodlust for people at home and abroad, set the stage for the disgusting spectacle we’re now forced to watch, which, adding insult to injury,  we all paid for.

Had it not been for the many expensive yet unsuccessful efforts to buy off these irredeemable descendants of traitors, we would never again have to listen to such antediluvian horseshit at all…  We’d have an impoverished, undeveloped nation below us, welded to its hate and superstitions, that Haiti would look down on.  Instead, we have “Senators,” and “Governors” so comically corrupt ruling a population so dimwitted and poisoned, physically and mentally, that they would matter about as much to the civlized world as the ravings of, say, their favorite daughter Britney Spears, picking and choosing who “belongs” on the Supreme court.  Nice “victory.”

Instead, vainly attempting to bring them on board, we made costly and counterproductive “investments” like the TVA and the many military installations which have now made these anti-government zealots, racists, and plain old trash the angriest, ugliest, freeloaders on the planet.  Are refunds available?  We brought these people out of the muck, and now they run around telling everyone there was never any muck to begin with.  They take federal money while they bite the hand that feeds them, and they defy the laws of the country that has treated them so well; suppressing minority votes, vilifying their supposed countrymen from up north, and threatening to secede yet again on a fairly regular basis, even as their leaders eagerly indulge themselves in the “sins” of which they accuse everyone else.  Nice work if you can get it.

It’s far too late to go back to the 1860′s and get rid of these vipers in the nest unilaterally, but couldn’t complete disinvestment accomplish the same goal?

No more military bases or contracts, no more subsidies, and above all, no more treating southern “leaders” like anything other than what they are, and so proudly call everyone else..  Traitors.  G’Bye.

At least then it wouldn’t be so embarrassing to watch C-Span.

Update:  Now, I really have been dreadfully remiss in how I went ahead and skipped over the “wise Latina” quote the righties  have gone so cuckoo over her of late.  In context, Sotomayor is merely saying that a different perspective, somewhat more scandalously closely related to the other side of the case than the one, the two, three, or eight other white guys talking about the matter.  What’s “Duh?” in Puerto Rican, Senator Sessions?

The fact that a documented, lifelong racist is allowed to spout such drivel unchallenged is a searing indictment of, not bigoted scum like Sen. Sessions himself, but by our shamelessly corrupt and amoral media, who pretend such a person’s opinions are worthy of public discourse.