June 9, 2009
What rights do any of the states still hold?
Obama’s rampant federalization of everything he can get the federal government’s hands on (health care, auto industry, housing industry, banking industry, tobacco industry, etc.) is sparking a new found interest in states’ rights:
The wave of government bailouts and the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package are reviving interest in an issue that’s largely been dormant since the mid-1990s: states’ rights.
From Idaho to South Carolina and in dozens of other states, Republicans are sponsoring resolutions designed to call attention to what they view as a worrisome expansion of the federal government at the expense of the states.
“What we have is a federal government that is exceeding its authority and blackmailing the states into submission through printed dollars,” said Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Sam Rohrer. “We are trying to say to the federal government, ‘You have a role, but your role stops not too far outside Washington, D.C.’”
Rohrer has been shepherding a bill that declares sovereignty for Pennsylvania “under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.”
States’ rights? What are those? Who is kidding whom on this one? South Carolina’s Supreme Court just ordered their governor–Governor Mark Sanford–to take $700 million in stimulus funds. There are no state’s rights, anymore. The states are selling their rights as quickly as the federal government will buy them up, which is pretty quickly considering that is what the “stimulus” scheme was planned to do.
The Democrats are in power, which means a consolidation of power by the federal government at the expense of the individual states and people. They have been slickly building this moment for years and they are certainly not going to waste this crisis in order to respect the Constitution they have spent, at least, the past fifty years denigrating and destroying.
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Please, States don’t have rights! People have rights! Citizens form governments to protect those rights; to do so they confer POWERS to the States, or so the 10th amendment sez…
Comment by J. Lefler — June 9, 2009 @ 3:24 pm
I’m a South Carolinian, native born son, and I commend our governor for taking a stand on the stimulus scheme- I see no real plan, personally.
I’m really apalled that Governor Sanford is taking so much heat and grief about refusing to accept this money.
We sailed along for years with very few monetary problems, no more than usual, but as soon as our legislators got wind of this scheme, all of a sudden we’re going down the drain quickly.
Sorry, I don’t buy it!
Comment by Joseph Brown — June 9, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
Nancy Pelosi gets to run South Carolina–what could possibly go wrong?
Comment by Noel — June 9, 2009 @ 6:22 pm
This post has been linked for the HOT5 Daily 6/10/2009, at The Unreligious Right
Comment by UNRR — June 10, 2009 @ 5:31 am