July 02, 2009 11:49 PM UTC

Lamborn Founds "Screw The U.N." Caucus

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the Colorado Independent:

Three Republican Congressmen last week launched a new caucus aimed at defending the nation against international treaties they see as threats to American rights and national interests. The so-called sovereignty movement has gained surprising momentum on the Hill recently and Lamborn’s new House caucus goes further in establishing its presence.

The Washington Independent reports the House Sovereignty Caucus is the brainchild of Lamborn, Scott Garrett (R-N.J.) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.).

The launch party was held June 24th, when dozens of Hill staffers, foreign policy experts, and old Washington hands made their way to the lower floor of the Capitol Visitors Center, a sprawling complex below the halls of Congress. Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith stopped by to make remarks and pose for photos. Patrick Henry College Chancellor Michael Farris made small talk near a table of fruits, vegetables and soft cheeses.

“I have said for years that we ought to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and the U.N. out of the U.S.,” said Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), addressing the crowd in an impromptu speech. “I’ll do everything I can in the Congress to maintain the U.S. as a sovereign nation, subservient to no one but the almighty God.”

If the “sovereignty movement” has gained any ‘momentum’ over the last few months, you can assign it to the same column as the “tea party” movement or the “empty your local gun store” movement. It’s a column that you don’t take all that seriously, except maybe in a Homeland Security threat assessment (to be fair, “9/11 Truthers” keep such nuttery a bipartisan affair).

Slobodan Milosevic might find all this talk about “sovereignty” a little curious, or for that matter anybody the U.S. would like to see brought before a war crimes tribunal–“justice for me but not for thee” has never been especially powerful logic. Though it’s true, Colorado’s other GOP Rep. Mike Coffman knows some fellow Marines who will definitely agree with Lamborn.