Fringe Elements have Coffee Klatsch

And who says the fringe left and the fringe right can't get along?

In an unlikely marriage of desire to secede from the United States, two advocacy groups from opposite political traditions — New England and the South — are sitting down to talk.

Tired of foreign wars and what they consider right-wing courts, the Middlebury Institute wants liberal states like Vermont to be able to secede peacefully.

That sounds just fine to the League of the South, a conservative group that refuses to give up on Southern independence.

"We believe that an independent South, or Hawaii, Alaska, or Vermont would be better able to serve the interest of everybody, regardless of race or ethnicity," said Michael Hill of Killen, Ala., president of the League of the South.

Read the whole thing. Man, to have been a fly on the wall in that room. But it is incredibly that this kind of thing gets reported in the news. I wonder what the reaction would have been if the same fringe elements held such a meeting during the Clinton years....