Com­ment: While wav­ing the flag with one hand, the GOP has been warn­ing of or openly preach­ing seces­sion. The lat­est GOP lumi­nary to preach sedi­tion is Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Zach Wamp. As we will see in the Salon.com arti­cle below, Wamp is a mem­ber of “The Family”–a con­sum­mately pow­er­ful, fun­da­men­tal­ist Chris­t­ian orga­ni­za­tion with close ties to the Under­ground Reich.

“GOP Rep. and TN-GOV Can­di­date Wamp: States Might Have to Con­sider ‘Sep­a­ra­tion from This Gov­ern­ment’” by Eric Kleefeld; Talk­ing Points Memo; 7/23/2010.

Excerpt: Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN), who is run­ning in a heated three-way Repub­li­can pri­mary for gov­er­nor of Ten­nessee, has a dire warn­ing about the new health care reform law: If a new Con­gress and pres­i­dent aren’t elected in order to repeal the bill, states might just have to secede.

“I hope that the Amer­i­can peo­ple will go to the bal­lot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to con­sider sep­a­ra­tion from this gov­ern­ment,” said Wamp, who has also promised to refuse to imple­ment the law at the state level if he is elected, in an inter­view with the Hot­line.

Wamp also praised Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) — who has also floated the idea of seces­sion — for lead­ing the fight against the health care bill. “Patri­ots like Rick Perry have talked about these issues because the fed­eral gov­ern­ment is putting us in an unten­able posi­tion at the state level,” said Wamp. . . .

Com­ment: Wamp, as men­tioned above, is a mem­ber of “The Family.”

“Sex and Power Inside the ‘C Street House’” by Jeff Sharlet; Salon.com; 7/21/2009.

Excerpt: . . . . Today’s roll call is just as impres­sive: Men under the Family’s religio-political coun­sel include, in addi­tion to Ensign, Coburn and Pick­er­ing, Sens. Chuck Grass­ley, R-Iowa, and Jim DeMint and Lind­sey Gra­ham, both R-S.C.; James Inhofe, R-Okla., John Thune, R-S.D., and recent sen­a­tors and high offi­cials such as John Ashcroft, Ed Meese, Pete Domenici and Don Nick­les. Over in the House there’s Joe Pitts, R-Penn., Frank Wolf, R-Va., Zach Wamp, R-Tenn. . . .