Posted on 02/13/2009 8:45:49 AM PST by Crazieman
Buried in the porkulus conference report is a provision specifically targeting governors who would exercise the choice to refuse stimulus money.
It’s an obvious end-run around the authority of South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, the outspoken GOP fiscal conservative who has staunchly opposed the behemoth federal package.
Read it:
SEC. 1607. (a) CERTIFICATION BY GOVERNOR — Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, for funds provided to any State or agency thereof, the Governor of the State shall certify that: 1) the State request and use funds provided by this Act , and; 2) funds be used to create jobs and promote economic growth.
(b) ACCEPTANCE BY STATE LEGISLATURE — If funds provided to any State in any division of this Act are not accepted for use by the Governor, then acceptance by the State legislature, by means of the adoption of a concurrent resolution, shall be sufficient to provide funding to such State.
This seems blatantly illegal — a complete federal usurpation of states’ budget processes.
Do the members of the Senate GOP Turncoat Caucus approve?
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11:15am Eastern. Sen. Dick Durbin is on the Senate floor defending the Punish Mark Sanford Amendment. He scoffs at the “political” views of fiscally conservative state executives and eagerly describes how he will make end-runs around those governors.
Democrats attack our grandchildrens’ income, encourage invasion by illegal aliens, compile list of all HIV/AIDS patients, destroy all vestiges of medical privacy, force impoverished Asian laborers into servitude, and usurp states rights!
Me too.
I hope he is a pit bull. Then take him to an Obama rally and turn him loose.
THIS IS IMPORTANT:
The reason for the end-around is not to force the money on the states, but to force THE RULES that go along with the money, like CARD CHECK, and Socialist Healthcare upon the states.
THIS IS HOW THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR STARTED, FOLKS....
FASCISM has arrived in America, and it’s riding a dark horse.
Turban Burbin is a midget maggot Lib with a failed state.
It would be more appropriate to call this ‘The First Shot of CWII Amendment’.
If we keep this up, the list will be bigger than Britanicas’
encyclopedia!
Thanks, good day.
South Carolina has a history of not taking kindly to usurpation of states’ rights by the federal government.
Isn’t it NEWSWEEK that has a cover page ...
“We are all SOCIALISTS now”?
Exactly. In either order, I really don’t care.
I am beginning to really like this Mark Sanford guy, he and Sarah would make an AWESOME ticket. What sucks is that they are gonna force Governor’s to take this money because if they don’t, or refuse to do so, they can say that they don’t care about their state, it’s that simple. They are being blackmailed in the worst way, either take the money and show you care about your constituents or refuse the money and show you don’t give a damn about the people your working for. Damn bastards, nothing but a bunch of evil bastards
I have a dream that some states which are already heavily conservative would refuse the money. I have a dream that their state legislative bodies would declare their state to be free from socialism and start advertising that settlers are welcome as long as they realize that we have no social/welfare spending here. I have a dream......
Good Afternoon.
Agreed. That is the frustrating part of being a conservative. Dole/Dubya/McCain were not great communicators. I realize there will never be another Reagan, but there has to be an articulate conservative out there somewhere. I believe Sanford is that candidate. Palin was amazing but Sanford is more...serious.
That’s good, more states need to assert rights every time the fed gets over the line. Even if it’s just a little over the line.
My wife is a tarheel from Sampson county. I love NC. If the libs don’t take it over I want to retire there.
Sanford was the most vocal opponent of the Repub Governors.
He is on my 2012 Possibility List.
The NDSP has established the following:
1.) ACORN=Socialist party henchmen(aka. Brownshirts) who will be made into the New Federal Police Force Obama claimed he needed (Better funded than the Military).
2.) He has out maneuvered the GOP in Congress with his Majority in the Senate and the House & with the Turncoats in both Houses.
3.) The NDSP cheats, lies, bribes and outspends the GOP. They know that the GOP will not stoop to there level and they believe they will win.
4.) The O’s brainwashed Believers will do anything he tells them to with out question.
5.) For the last twenty years or so the NDSP has been moving there Goon Squads into the disputed states so that they are no longer Conservative but LIBERAL when it comes to elections. They know that Conservatives will not vote for moderate or liberal Republicans so they get the MSM to push for the candidates that they want so has to turn off the conservative base.
6.) The Main Stream Media(MSM) is 90% Liberal and will do what ever the NDSP tells them to do. Even if it means selling out there own country.
There will be a war, but it will be a true Civil War; neighbor against neighbor, City against City, County against County, etc, etc. until there is nothing but anarchy.
No, let's throw them out.
Sanford is not an orator, but he makes his points clearly and plainly, and and ansers questions with dispatch. The opposite of the wooly-mouthed Obama.
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