On secession

Nowadays, the most patriotic thing a good American living in the Texas can do is yammer on about secession. Released into the custody of the airwaves, Tom DeLie says it's a simple matter of enforcing the 1845 treat, subdivide into five states and would force the Senate to throw Texas out. One-two-three lickity split, all nice and legal like.

Some of us are old enough to remember when the Republigaggle's aspirational brand was "We are the only adults in the room." Now the brand is crybaby. One need not look further than Geo Bilious Will's snit's that bluejeans only make it harder to tell who is in your economic quintile. Even the grown ups have lost their grip.

So Texans want out? They want to establish the Republic of Texas, perhaps the last true Christian nation with a true free market economy where carry and conceal is a responsibility, not a right. They might start out in the hole a little, having to reconcile everything in Texas that currently belongs to United States like land, border patrol agents, office supplies, the F-22s at Lackland, etc. But, hey, the new constitution is already half written by Phil Gramm, Dick Army, and Tom DeLie.

They can build a wall around the whole state, er, Republic, er, Republican State of Texas.

(Insistently contributed by a Dupont Circle policy manufacturer who once saw Dallas from a distance and said, "What is that?")