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CNN's Costello: States' Rights is Like 'Asking the Children to be the Parents'
NewsBusters.org ^ | 07/31/2009 | Matthew Balan

Posted on 07/31/2009 4:38:17 PM PDT by Pyro7480

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To: Pyro7480

The children/parent analogy is a bad one anyway. What were the parents before they were adults?

One child in particular (Texas) ought to be given full parental rights is how I see it. We don’t need Washington telling us how to live.


21 posted on 07/31/2009 5:01:28 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
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To: Paine in the Neck
Andrew Jackson dealt with Nullification and as for secession, well we know where that went. I' am all for using the X Amendment to limit the power of the Federal Govt. But any real belief that things like the elastic clause of Article 1 and the interstate commerce clause are going to disappear or that Americans are going to forego the largesse of the federal govt and allow their states to assume that role is unrealistic.
22 posted on 07/31/2009 5:04:17 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: stop_fascism

talking head, bobbling head, empty head, no brain...


23 posted on 07/31/2009 5:04:34 PM PDT by bareford101 (the obamanation is a COUNTERFEIT with a COUNTERFEIT birth cert. & 39 different ss cards)
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To: Pyro7480

That’s a dangerously stupid woman right there. I’m glad I don’t have cable.


24 posted on 07/31/2009 5:08:26 PM PDT by AuntB (Tired of Left/right coast globalist party power brokers? How 'bout THE HEARTLAND AMERICA PARTY??)
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To: Pyro7480
She also highlighted the premise that “the concept of states’ rights is as old as America.”

She should have said older.

25 posted on 07/31/2009 5:17:24 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SkyDancer
I am very much self-reliant, but then again I long ago decided I was not going to allow the restrictions I experienced to limit what I could accomplish.

That being said, I would venture to say a sizeable portion do it as a matter of choice. Far too many, from what I have seen.

26 posted on 07/31/2009 5:19:48 PM PDT by Utilizer (What does not kill you... -can sometimes damage you QUITE severely.)
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To: Pyro7480

Earth to Costello: The federal government is the “child” of the states. The states are only the children of the people.


27 posted on 07/31/2009 5:27:05 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: Pyro7480
States to FedGov. "We brought you into this world, we can take you out! Now get in your room and think about what part of what you did was wrong!"

/johnny

28 posted on 07/31/2009 5:34:10 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: donna
Would you want the feds to track your husband across state lines for child support?

That's not in the FedGov job description. It is in the job description for the able-bodied men in the family.

/johnny

29 posted on 07/31/2009 5:37:34 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Utilizer

‘zactly ....


30 posted on 07/31/2009 5:44:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: All
We are often accused of not acknowledging the other side of issues. In this case the issue is the Tenth Amendment. I hope this helps correct that misimpression.

The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky hippie street rabble and their ideological issue (children)-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) wish to make it known this 31st day of July 2009:

Asking for states’ rights is asking the children to be the parents.

31 posted on 07/31/2009 5:49:44 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Pyro7480

It seems to me that only the individual exists by nature and then by consent and contract, either real or implied, the other groups are formed from marriage, family, town, city, county, state, federal. We are soverigns of our souls. At least that is how I see it.


32 posted on 07/31/2009 5:53:26 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: Pyro7480

This is not, I repeat NOT, the United Federation of America. It is the Untied STATES of America.


33 posted on 07/31/2009 5:55:25 PM PDT by IrishPennant (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop)
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To: IrishPennant
It is the Untied STATES of America.

Whoops...Friday night typo...but right now maybe we are the untied states.

34 posted on 07/31/2009 6:01:48 PM PDT by IrishPennant (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop)
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To: Jeb21

What do you expect from a bunch of intellectual CHILDREN?


35 posted on 07/31/2009 6:02:09 PM PDT by Marty62
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To: donna
If you got married, had 10-kids with your beloved husband who made you promises, your husband ran off with the babysitter: Would you want the feds to track your husband across state lines for child support?

I've read a lot of ridiculous comparisons, but this takes the cake - even more so because it's obviously being tested to see if it sticks for women as a meme. But the very concept that the most profound development in the history of the world for freedom, a masterpiece of social philosophy for which generations of Americans have fought and died to protect, and which has become a beacon of possibility for the whole world (and an example for women's social freedom, BTW), should even be remotely considered as being tossed because some woman wants to chase some man because she's pissed off at him (reason doesn't matter, it's the comparison that's the point), has got to be a new low.

This type of insanity puts the selfishness of a woman's needs above all, and the country and the world be damned. No responsibility whatever for the woman - not in selecting the rat husband, not in dealing with the rat relationship with him, not in pursuing ten kids in the first place (or three, or even one) - no. Just: woman is pissed, so woman is victimized, so burn down the country and destroy the world so she can get whatever she thinks she wants (and then when it doesn't work, she's still victimized).

Women should be absolutely outraged that they are portrayed as mindlessly destructive and idiotically selfish as you have portayed them. Instead, by the millions, they think this craven and vicious attitude actually represents freedom, as they destroy education and job opportunities and family life for men, and then continue in their still-unfulfilled collectivist rage to try to burn down the country around them, without ever once realizing that their limitless selfishness is precisely the thing that prevents them from ever being fulfilled by anything or anyone, ever.

36 posted on 07/31/2009 6:06:06 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Pyro7480

Guy knows nothing about history.

Sovereign states existed BEFORE federal govt.

They were MUCH more powerful than the infant federal govt.

The powers of the fed govt were very limited.

The fed govt was to be the agent of the states, not the master of the states. Only had the few powers the states had given it.

The more these morons talk the more they confirm they are morons and do not know real history at all. And they don’t care, they are happy idiots and have high self-esteem.


37 posted on 07/31/2009 6:17:20 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: donna

Since when is the government supposed to be your personal detective?


38 posted on 07/31/2009 6:18:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: rarestia
Any Henry Bowman’s among us? Icepicks, anyone?

I have long wondered whether a Henry Bowman (re: Unintended Consequences by John Ross) would come along at some point and start taking out legislators. Not that I advocate that, mind you, but conditions are about right for one to emerge.

39 posted on 07/31/2009 6:20:06 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Proud to be an American, where I least I know I'm free!)
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To: Clemenza

I believe it was a mistake to allow women to vote. I also believe it is a mistake for people who don’t own property (non-taxpayers) to vote.

Too many people who don’t have any skin in the game voting in people who will give them other people’s money.


40 posted on 07/31/2009 6:22:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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