Thurmond’s Heir

by digby

Howie Klein makes a devastating case against Jim DeMint’s perfidious national security interference, culminating in my quote of the day:

As we pointed out last month before the terrorist attack DeMint had been hoping for, another Democratic President once said his biggest regret is not having hung another vicious South Carolina wingnut for treason. That senator was slavery’s most ardent and fanatic defender, the disgraceful John Calhoun, a kind of pre-Civil War political amalgam of Cheney, Strom Thurmond and DeMint. He was an early secessionist who is best known for the doctrine of nullification, something neo-Confederates and reactionaries are still yammering about to this day.

plus ça chang …

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