Poor old Lawrence O'Donnell. He generally comes across as an intelligent analyst. He's obviously not taking Tuesday very well at all.
I was watching the McLaughlin Group yesterday and O'Donnell actually said that the blue states could secede in twenty years. This is all based on the findings that indicated that the red states spent more federal tax dollars than the blue states, which paid more in taxes. {I'm not so sure that this study was all that it was cracked up to be at the time, but maybe more on that later.}
What O'Donnell's not taking into account is that the country is not so neatly divided as he'd like to imagine. Remember the maps by county? Based on O'Donnell's analysis, the only whole states that could secede are Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. What happens when NY State tries to secede? Won't all the red counties then secede from NY State? Not a very likely scenario, is it?
Will someone please get a big glass of milk for O'Donnell? He obviously just needs to deal with his agita.
UDPATE: Nov 10, 4:45pm
O'Donnell's fellow McLaughlin Group participant Tony Blankley has more on O'Donnell's secession talk.
