Just to elaborate a bit on that last post, in which I wrote about how once-sensible Republicans are dancing with madness these days…
I’d just like to point out to Sen. Graham where all this “hate Obamacare to the point that we’ll hurt actual South Carolinians by blowing it up” stuff leads.
Continue down that path, and you cease to be that voice of reason you’ve always been in Washington, that Gang of 14 guy, the guy who took a bullet for comprehensive immigration reform, the guy who at least for a time fought for the Energy Party platform at great personal political risk, the guy who could get President Obama to listen to reason on national security. You cease being all that (which is a national tragedy, because the nation NEEDS you to play that role), and you end up being state Sen. Lee Bright. I mean this guy:
Sen. Lee Bright: SC should coin its own money
Continuing a pattern of attempts to assert South Carolina’s independence from the federal government, State Sen. Lee Bright, R-Roebuck, has introduced legislation that backs the creation of a new state currency that could protect the financial stability of the Palmetto State in the event of a breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.
Bright’s joint resolution calls for the creation of an eight-member joint subcommittee to study the proposal and submit a report to the General Assembly by Nov. 1.
The Federal Reserve System has come under ever-increasing strain during the last several years and will be exposed to ever-increasing and predictably debilitating strain in the years to come, according to the legislation.
“If there is an attempt to monetize the Fed we ought to at least have a study on record that could protect South Carolinians,” Bright said in an interview Friday.
“If folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup.”
The legislation cites the rights reserved to states in the Constitution and Supreme Court rulings in making the case that South Carolina is within its rights to create its own currency…
Thank Bud for bringing that to my attention. I hadn’t seen coverage of it. But the Boston Globe has noted it. And these guys are applauding it. (This really embarrassing stuff tends to come to my attention this way. While SC media is trying to look the other way — or rather spending its time covering legislation that might actually pass, which sounds better — the rest of the country is chortling. When Mike Pitts proposed doing away with the Yankee dollar and replacing it with gold and silver, I first learned about it from Burl Burlingame and The Onion.)
Sen. Bright, by the way, was last seen pushing broader legislation to protect South Carolina’s “rights” (which rights were under siege was unclear, but then it usual is) from encroaching federal power in general. You may or may not recall that I wrote about it in a post headlined “These guys cannot POSSIBLY be serious.” I led with a reference to that scene from “Gettysburg” with the Confederate prisoners speaking nonsensically about fighting for their nonspecific “rats.” You know how I like movie allusions.
Anyway, that’s where you could end up.
You don’t want to go there, do you, Lindsey? I didn’t think so. But that’s where this “seceding from Obamacare” stuff leads…
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I don’t see how SC could possibly mint its own gold or silver coins, given what gold and silver are going for today.
http://southcarolina1670.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/why-sc-may-have-trouble-minting-coins/
Here in South Carolina we’re always trying to build a bridge to the 13th century. Where do I sign up for knight training? We could use some of those skills for the South Carolina Guard.
Bud, what do you mean “build a bridge to the 13th century”? At least 40% of our population are essentially serfs now. The horrible truth is that they support that social system.
Please, Bud. We’ve progressed beyond the 13th century. Many of our legislators, for example, are firmly committed to building a bridge to the 15th or even the 16th century. Just as long as it’s pre-Englightenment, they’re all for it.
I think some of you have your hair shirts cinched too tight. We can mint all the gold coins we want if we simply make our own gold. It’s called “alchemy”. Duh. You might want to google it.
I think the Dream Century, for SC and not without cause if you are white and wealthy, or a wannabe, is the 18th to early 19th. From 1861 on, SC went from being one of the wealthiest states, if not the wealthiest, to one of the poorest ones. The Enlightenment, like so many trends, came late to SC–has it even arrived here yet?
Perhpas, Sen. Bright has secretly found the long lost legendary Confederate gold buried in Abbeville.
Hey! South Carolina’s got a gold mine again. We’re all set.
I don’t believe in personal disparagement of another, but since I don’t know him at all (and he seems to have a track record of wasting the State’s time with nonsense like this) – While his parents may have avoided naming him Lester Bright, the Senator himself has proven he may in fact be “Les Bright”.
I always wonder if people like this are really serious or if they just want a little bit of attention. Surely someone who actually gets elected can’t seriously believe this nonsense will ever become law or if somehow it does will improve the welfare of this state.