[robowombat]

The CSM gives extended coverage to those wild and crazy guys who yearn for the Ben & Jerry's Maplesyrup Republic.

[mewzilla]

Do they want to secede from the union, or just from the state? If it's the latter, hey, it worked for WV.

[peyton randolph]

Let New England secede. Howard Dean would make a great first president of their socialist republic. YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAH!

[Chi-townChief]

Sounds like they're attempting to exercise "states' rights."

[Brilliant]

I'm in favor of them leaving. It will make it a lot easier for the conservatives to control the Senate, and they really don't add much to the Union anyway.

[2banana]

I can hear it now from liberals - we want to secede...but keep sending our Federal dairy support subsidizes...

[Kenton]

I will volunteer to go to Vermont and help preserve the union the good old fashioned way. I also want to personally lead a march across Vermont a la Sherman, torching Ben and Jerry's and all other such bastions of liberalism.

But only in the summer. It's too cold there in the winter.

[Jibaholic]

I hope they succeed in seceding (say that ten times fast). I personally think every state should secede. Then maybe we can go back to a nicer form of government like the Articles of Confederation

[ONETWOONE]

There is a sap behind every tree. No great loss though.

[MNJohnnie]

Seceding seldom succeeds, but Vermonters try

What do you know, I'm a Reb. I am all for Vermonter leaving the USA. Heck Canada can have everything North of Pennslvania and East of the Great Lakes.

[sheik yerbouty]

Didn't Vermont once secede from New York State, eons ago?

[Kozak]

"If we had a right to join the Union, we certainly have a right to disband from it," SVR founder Thomas Naylor told the assembly.

Certain Southern states are owed a big aplogy and war reparations in that case......

[kalee]

Didn't VT send soldiers to fight against the Confederacy for seceeding?

Typical liberal logic, evil when other do it, but just and proper when they do.

[popdonnelly]

Vermont is the home of choice for every hippie from the Northeast.

[who knows what evil?]

This is just another silly liberal distraction. New England is turning into a retirement community. There was an EXCELLENT article on the "graying of Vermont" in this week's Sunday newspaper. Vermont has the SECOND-HIGHEST median age in the country (Maine is #1, NH is #7). In other words; 'old-fart central'. As younger people move away, because they can't afford to live here, those homes are being snapped up as 'second homes' by wealthy elderly from southern New England and New York. Many schools have found themselves with empty classrooms, as the exodus continues. Within a few short years; the citizens of Vermont are going to be too busy trying to remain economically viable to worry about 'leaving' the United States. Vermont's destiny is that of an expensive retirement community. Simple as that.

[Fiji Hill]

We are a band of brothers,
And native to the soil,
Fighting for our liberty
With treasure blood, and toil.
And when our rights were threatened,
The cry rose near and far:
"Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!"

Hurrah!
Hurrah!
For Southern rights, hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!

[vetvetdoug]

Where do we go to get ready to invade Vermont? I can't wait to pillage the old farmhouses and homes so I can get some antique furniture and collectibles. I hear there are some good horses there too so maybe I can get several of them also.

Gee, isn't this the way seceding is treated here in the US? This is the way it was done years ago, it should be good enough for today's Vermonters.