Kook Leftists Want to Secede From Arizona

Whenever we read about some nascent movement from a state about seceding from the United States, it's typically met with derision and howls of laughter. Yet now here we have a case of some whiny liberals unhappy with being in the minority in Arizona and who actually want to secede from the state. At what point will the left grow up and accept the results of elections? If Arizona is so bad, why don't they just move?

On the patio of a downtown bar here last Wednesday night, a handful of people gathered over pitchers of beer to plot the creation of America's 51st state.

With copies of the Arizona constitution before them, they debated how to turn Pima County—a liberal southern swatch of Arizona that borders Mexico and includes Tucson—into "Baja Arizona."

"What's the objective?" one member asked the group, Start Our State.

"Becoming our own state and making our own decisions," said organizer Paul Eckerstrom.

Baja Arizona (the working title) will almost certainly remain a dream, but it suggests the growing chasm between the state's Republican leaders and its frustrated liberal minority.

Aww, poor babies are fwustwated. Waaah! Waaah!

Republicans say the separatists' effort is, at best, a publicity stunt. "It's their silly way of pushing back," said Lori Klein, a state senator and the nullification bill's chief sponsor. "It's Pima County. They fight us on immigration. They fight us on taxes."

"It's no secret that the Democrats took it on the chin this year," said Brian Miller, Pima County Republican Party Chairman. "So instead of regrouping and trying to convince people they are correct in their views, they want to secede." On the other hand, he noted, if Pima County does become its own state, "that would make me the state GOP chairman."

Jokes about the effort, and the liberal history of the region, abound. "The official state license plate would read: Baja Arizona: Your Welfare Is Our Business," wrote Roger Yohem, a columnist for "Inside Tucson Business. "The official state gun would be the Hasbro Super-Soaker."

Ouch.

Angry Left Freaking Out Over Obama: 'Boy, Their Political Instincts are Really Stupid'

Two weeks since the GOP's Congressional blowout and the angry left is still licking their wounds. From the sound of things they're ready to abandon world traveler Obama because he--get this--compromises too much with Republicans. Yes, the guy who for two years ignored the GOP is compromising too much with them.

Liberals furious with a White House they view as constantly telegraphing compromise with Republicans are pressuring President Obama to get tougher, arguing that is the only way he will win both progressives and independents in 2012.

Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and an outspoken critic of the White House, said liberal anger has less to do with fears of a Clintonian move to the middle by Obama and more with a misreading of the election results by the administration.

“It’s less ‘Oh no, they’re triangulating,’ and more ‘Boy, their political instincts are really stupid,’ ” said Green, who along with other liberals has blasted the White House for suggesting it would compromise with Republicans on expiring tax cuts.

The White House “fundamentally” doesn’t get that “the only way to get Republicans to deal in good faith is to fight them, crush them and teach a lesson that if Republicans are on the wrong side of an issue there will be consequences ... so it makes sense to negotiate,” Green said.

Yeah, there'll be consequences alright, like the loss of even more seats and the Senate in 2012. How's that whole "crush them" thing working out, fellas?

“Right now, every time Republicans are on the opposite side of an issue from the public, it’s the Democrats who cave and talk about ‘compromise.’ It’s ridiculous.”

While those babies were busy with their temper tantrum, defeated Democrats were busy crying on the House floor.

Freshman Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D-Ill.), who lost her reelection bid, wiped away tears as she hugged fellow members of the class of 2008, many of whom lost on Nov. 2.

Less than three feet away, ousted Nevada freshman Rep. Dina Titus (D) appeared to brush away some tears in a less obvious manner.

Their tears taste delicious.

Inflated Self-Importance Leads to Delusions

This is what happens when you indulge children too much. Keep telling them how special they are despite their churlish and infantile behavior, and pretty soon they start running your life.

Keep them in line, instill some discipline, punish them when necessary and they behave well, develop an earned self-respect and grow into mature adults.

Well, the Democrats, barely beyond the juvenile stage as it is, have been catering to the insane left nutroots bloggers for several years now, and coming off the heels of their recent meeting of Koslamists in Chicago, the puerile left has grown to think they actually wield some real power in the Democrat Party.

They don't realize they're just being pandered to and are disposable, ready to be thrown under the bus on short notice.

Predictably, like spoiled children, they're now having a temper tantrum, and it isn't pretty.

The Blogs Are Alive With the Sound of Angry Democrats

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- Progressive and liberal groups and left-leaning blogs are furious, tossing around fighting words like "spineless," "craven" and "weak."

So much for the hopes of Democratic leaders that they could avoid a withering political attack by clearing the way for Congress to approve an expansion of the Bush administration?s terrorist surveillance program before the August recess.

"Democratic leaders in Congress didn't put up much of a fight and they didn't stand up and say "no" to Bush," said an e-mail message that political operatives for the group MoveOn sent Tuesday to the organization's members, urging them to sign an online petition calling on Congress to reverse the new law.

Translation: Enough Democrats retain their sanity to realize this country needs to protect itself. The kook fringe at MoveOn are too stupid to realize that.

Activist groups were somewhat forgiving earlier this year when Democrats backed down in a fight with President Bush over war spending, but the concession on changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act seems to have touched a nerve.

From the perspective of liberal critics, Democrats again let themselves be hoodwinked into handing Mr. Bush substantial new power on the basis of White House warnings of an imminent threat. And they did so when Mr. Bush's poll numbers are low.

Yes, but their numbers are much lower than Bush's, so did they really have a choice?

The idiots cannot grasp that.

Chimpy McHitlerburton is such an idiot, and he outsmarted you! How can this be?

"Ultimately, it was the Democratic leadership on the Hill that rolled over to this demand," said Caroline Fredrickson, a top lobbyist for the American Civil Liberties Union. "Instead of standing strong and standing on principle, they panicked and gave the administration not only what it has been asking for, but more."

The caterwauling continues on.

Read the rest if you need a good laugh.