I love it when people quote history, to make an entirely stupid point, and get the history entirely wrong, and then when asked about it by reporters, corrent correct themselves to make their point even wronger. Case in point: Saxby Chambliss, R-CSA

According to Roll Call’s source, [At a closed door meeting of the Armed Services Committee] Chambliss said, “We need better intelligence. If we had better intelligence in the Civil War we’d be quoting Jefferson Davis, not Lincoln.”

A spokesperson for Chambliss said the story wasn’t correct and that what the Senator actually said said was, “If Gen. JEB Stuart had had better intelligence, we’d all be meeting in Richmond right now.”

Okay, here’s the problem: James Ewell Brown Stuart was in charge of gathering intelligence, not receiving it, so he’s got that backwards right there. Stuart was a cavalryman, and his assignment in gathering intelligence was to ride all over the countryside and look at stuff, particularly looking for troop movements.

Of course there’s also the problem that Stuart had all the intelligence he could get but got blocked on the way to Gettysburg and couldn’t deliver it to where it was needed.

And then there’s the minor matter that “if the South had won the Civil War” then these people wouldn’t be fucking meeting anywhere because the nation would be, like, divided, ya know?

Jeebus J. Christ on a wormy piece of hardtack. Take this silly shoddy sod out and drown him in a tub of skillygalee. I hope this gets heard in the reenactor community, they will denounce him as a farb and there goes a big chunk of his former vote. Nothing like a Civil War reenactor to have a long memory, as should probably suprise no one.

Just take my word for it that it is particularly painful to me to have somebody named Chambliss spout off and portray himself as an expert on the Civil War and fall on his fat florid fucking face with ignorance spouting from every orifice and pore. If it was Zig-Zag Zell Miller I would make the same fun of his stupidity but it would somehow be easier to take.

I just get the feeling that he acquired his total knowledge of the subject by one attendance at a performance at the musical version of Shenandoah, during which he became excited during the opening song. One chorus goes:

Raise the flag of Dixie, higher than a tree
And let it wave, from sea to shining sea
If it’s good enough for Jackson, and it’s good enough for Lee
Then hot damn, Alabam’, it’s good enough for me!

ack. spit. *ptooey* Somebody go slap him with a glove for me, okay?