Posted on 02/23/2009 3:12:13 AM PST by Scanian
State governors -- looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama “stimulus” plan -- are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.
In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of “hope” equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government’s authority over the states. These states -- Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas -- have passed resolutions reminding Obama that the 10th Amendment protects the rights of the states, which are the rights of the people, by limiting the power of the federal government. These resolutions call on Obama to “cease and desist” from his reckless government expansion and also indicate that federal laws and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be nullified by the states.
When the Constitution was being ratified during the 1780s, the 10th Amendment was understood to be the linchpin that held the entire Bill of Rights together. The amendment states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
“There was a guy from NH (Issa?) on Fox & Friends this AM talking this up. He didn’t seem like the sharpest pencil in the box but his heart appears to be in the right place.”
Maybe it was Daniel Itse, who is listed as the principle sponsor of the bill.
The Freedom of Choice Act was the primary impetus for the Missouri bill.
Yes, they are going to be pushing back on federal overreach on abortion.
This is *my* delusional version of “hope and change”.
Don’t mess with it!.....;-D
There are actually 28 that have these resolutions in various stages.
LLL -
do you know the situation with China and Taiwan?
It’s very similar to what you describe. The nationalist (non-communist) Chinese broke off, “rebelled”, from mainland communist China and both claim to BE “China”.
It’s gotta start somewhere.
And the people sponsoring these bills could use some emails and phone calls.
If they don’t get support, then these resolutions will go no further and we’ll just be one big ol’ globular communist country.
MrB wrote:I agree. That's really the point I was trying to make. Looking back, I guess I could have stated that part a bit more clearly.
It’s gotta start somewhere.And the people sponsoring these bills could use some emails and phone calls.
The headline, and the article to some extent, make it sound like this has already been done in eleven states. It's just starting in those eleven states. In those states, there needs to be some grass roots support to move this forward. In other states, there needs to be some support to get someone moving enough to start the process.
Not only that (FOCA), states, if they have keen Constitutional lawyers to monitor resolutions and law changers by states’ legislatures (represent the states in federal courts), one will find that many Fed laws / regulations are unconstitutional and therefore, states have their rights to null and void such. One cannot even begin to categorize the overreach from our fed goobermint.
I will not live under a marxist/sharia regime. I pray to GOD that this never comes to pass... but if pushed to the brink, the States have these rights that were the very first sentence written into our Declaration of Independence. It is the very FIRST LAW of the LAND!
LLS
To anyone who isn’t a leftist/collectivist, the Constitution’s pretty clear.
Congress is the seat of legislation (law). Nothing else should have the force of law.
Congress is limited to passing laws that have to do with the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8.
The 10th Amendment clarifies this in that all powers not delegated to the fedgov by this enumeration nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states.
Of course, that’s just way too logical for the wizards of smart, because it leaves no room for their superior intellect and morality to be forced on everyone else.
Ping.
Texas will be taking the money after Hussein all but theatened Gov. Perry that the state wouldn’t get any health care funding, etc. Good bye, Texas. Good buy, America.
BULLSEYE!!
The roots of intelligence of our founding fathers behind the creation of the US Constitution is beyond the Libturd ability to admit to or conceive. The basis for governing a successful Democratic Republic hasn't never changed.
“Washington, New Hampshire, Michigan, California”
Wish those states had thought of that on Nov 4!!!
“New Hampshire is on the verge of numbering itself among the states that are most hostile to homeschooling.”
What the hell happened to people in the Granite State? They used to be so much more conservative in their their thinking — were they invaded by libtard hordes from MA??
True; that said, GA gov Perdue is talking about refusing at least some if the “stimulus” money.
Obama has been drawing similarities to himself with Lincoln......
“Lincoln also locked up dissenters, dissolved the elected MD legislature and appointed a puppet legislature to replace it (”government of the people” indeed) and shut down newspapers critical of his war and jailed their editors. He also issued an arrest warrant for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court..”
Interesting. On the one hand, Arizona's Legislature is saying that we won't be bound by unconstitutional actions from the Feds in the future...and yet, we're eagerly awaiting the influx of Federal funding to help offset our $1.2 Billion budget shortfall this year.
> What the hell happened to people in the Granite State?
> They used to be so much more conservative in their their
> thinking — were they invaded by libtard hordes from MA??
Exactly.
To be fair, more than a few came from the soviet gulags of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
The MAss exodus to NH was ostensibly predicated on the desire to escape the high taxes and corrupt bureaucracy of the “Gay State”.
At times I suspect that the invading hoardes were communist plants. Either that or they are amazingly unperceptive, since the very policies and politician types they support are the same as those that drove them out of their states of origin.
Many websites indicate that Jennifer Granholm, governor of Michigan, is thrilled to get the $, and like Arnold, wants that of every other state who has rejected the porkulus. I wonder where the author came up with this story?
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