So far they are helping Obama push his agenda.
The states?
Power Corrupts, Washington Now absolute power corrupts absolutely, and John is just a puppet in Washington’s corrupt political machine.
I won’t argue that the States are substantially better, Ill just point out that among the states there are competition not only for our pre-prepositionally strong vote, but most importantly of all for our presence.
A leftist State Like California and New York can pass all the oppressive market corrning legislation they want, but as long as you the individual can simply move across the boarder, they will in the end be far more accountable.
That simple inherit check on their oppressive power over the individual by way of voting with their feet is what we need to restore or at least hold on to our economic and political freedom. The other very useful thing in our states in their inability to print money thus inherit monetary accountability that comes with that leads to more imeadent and recognizable political consequences for spending, particularity vote buying spending.
Our States created Washington not the other way around and thus the political center of power has always rightly been theirs. An article V convention will prove that. But i think the anther is right, Congress won’t let it come to that, they will try to appease our State legislators by passing some of the more important amendments.
If State legislator call a Constitutional Convention, Ability to spend endlessly is not the only corrupt power of Washington they will be bring to an end.
As Conservatives we need the States to be the center of political life in America again, Not Washington. The Shift in Media to the Internet will make this not only possible but desirable as people will soon have directed to them based upon where they live political news. Which inherently means they can follow state politics. The more our State legislators make noise like Arizona the more people will push for that sort of information.
In this regard, I prefer the situation here in Tennessee, where there is simply no such thing as a state income tax. (In fact, it is entirely outlawed by the state constitution.)