20 states threatening to secede after President Obama reelection. Aww, did somebody get their widdle feelings hurt?

You know this weekend my daughter flew down to Georgia to spend the winter with her mom and her sisters, since much of the movie work she has been doing up here will dry up until spring.

We had a great last couple of days together, attending the new James Bond movie "Skyfall" and getting take out from the newly opened Olive Garden here on our side of town. (I loved both the movie and the food by the way.)

And then the next day, Sunday she flew dout of here around 4:00 P.M. our time.

I kid you not, she was in Georgia no more than eight hours before I received THIS text:

"Oh my god. what am I doing here? These people are fucking crazy!"

That statement was accompanied by this link:  

It's been less than a week since the nation re-elected President Barack Obama, giving the Commander in Chief another four years in office. Unsurprisingly, the election's outcome didn't please everyone. But rather than simply deal with the results, however, thousands of Georgians have decided that they would rather secede from the United States. 

Yes, you read that right. Political blog Georgia Tipsheet - run by occasional CL contributor James Richardson - pointed out this morning that over 6,000 people have signed two similar petitions. Both have asked for the Obama administration to allow the Peach State to leave the United States so that it could form its own independent government. 

Seriously? I guess so much for that whole bipartisan approach to working together for the good of the country thing, right?

Now as most of us know Georgia is in NO position to run their own government, and this is clearly nothing more than a very public temper tantrum by a group of  dipshits that simply cannot handle the idea that they just had their asses handed to them in the election.

However before you mock Georgia as a state full of whiny little bitches, perhaps you should read this:

Louisiana became the first of the (as of now) 50 united states that managed to collect enough signatures to have their petition for secession added to the White House’s website last week, and so far they’ve had no problem finding company. A petition asking for the government to “Peacefully grant the State of Louisiana to withdraw from the United States of America and create its own NEW government” garnered more than 14,000 signatures since going live on November 7, and so far 19 other states have managed to attract similar success. 

According to the terms of participation on WhiteHouse.gov, the website for the executive branch of the United States will make any petition searchable if it can collect 150 signatures within one months’ time, and collecting 25,000 signatures will necessitate an official response. So far Texas seems to be in the running to be the first state to receive a response from the commander-in-chief, with 21,777 signees asking for secession since their petition went live on November 9, barely 48 hours after US President Barack Obama claimed a victory in his bid for re-election. 

In all, 20 states have so far broken the 150 signature threshold, mostly sticking closely to the script included in the first petition published by “Michael E” of Slidell, LA, who quotes the Declaration of Independence in his plea to once again separate the public from a power that, according to thousands of residents, doesn’t represent what is best for the people anymore.

You know part of me wants to simply say "good riddance" and let these assholes TRY and form their own country without the monetary support from Uncle Sam, ESPECIALLY since many of them take more in government money than they pay out in taxes. However of course that is not really an option, and besides my daughter would be trapped in one of those southern fried cuckoo's nests.

Besides I imagine that this reaction to Obama's reelection is much like when a small child threatens to hold their breath until they pass out. The best thing to do is call their bluff because they have to breathe eventually, and besides we know that, even though they have covered their mouths with their hands, they are actually faking it and still breathing through their noses.

God this country is just chock full of ignorant people. I just hope those Georgia inbreds don't get any of their stupid on my kid.