Are the States About to Slap the Runaway Fed Down to Constitutional Size?

Canada FREE Press ^ | February 25, 2009 | JB Williams

[nomad]

Go to your state board and get the word out.We need to organize here and network with other sites.Start a grassroots movement to take back, first the Republican party from the beltway CINOs, and then the country from the socialist rats.

[Wolfstar]

Here's a real big clue for you.

Take your condescending bull crap and use it on someone else. It has no effect on me.

[Political Junkie Too]

Me, too, on repealing the 17th, but also on campaign financing grounds. Eliminate 33 of the most expensive elections that occur every two years, and you eliminate the largest need for campaign financing among all the federal elections.

However, the 9th and 10th are already there to be enforced. It would be easier to work within the current framework than it would be to change the framework first and then work in the changed framework.

To that end, it would seem that we now have a bloc of states fighting for their 9th and 10th amendment rights, while another bloc of states are fighting for an electoral college pact to give their electoral college votes to the national popular vote winner.

These two state blocs seem to fighting for opposing goals. I don't see how a state can fight to reclaim its power from the federal government while simulataneously throwing away its electoral college votes to the winner of the largest urban areas in the country.

-PJ

[ForGod'sSake]

Great article!

Tenth Amendment/States Rights Update (an ongoing thread)

[meadsjn]

Only a small percentage of colonists participated in the US Revolution, less than 15 percent. Freedom from Britain was accomplished, in spite of the one third of the population that were loyalists, and more than one third who were skeptics and cowards.

Grow up. And learn to think, speak, and write like a grown-up.

[Wolfstar]

These two state blocs seem to fighting for opposing goals. I don't see how a state can fight to reclaim its power from the federal government while simulataneously throwing away its electoral college votes to the winner of the largest urban areas in the country.

I agree 100%, PJT. :)

[Wolfstar]

Grow up. And learn to think, speak, and write like a grown-up.

I was almost going to comment straightforwardly on the merits of your first point in post #85, then I saw it followed by your nastiness. Once again, your rotten behavior is indicative of all that's wrong with the conservative movement today. So my only response must be one on your level -- go eff yourself.

[Marie]

Not at all! I was chuckling at the overwhelming, fast response. I can always count on FReepers! :-)

[meadsjn]

Nothing is more wrong with the conservative movement today than defeatist, gutless betrayals to the leftists' messages and movements. Conservative ideas will win when they are delivered convincingly and resolutely.

Defeatist attitudes are poison to any project or mission.

[PlainOleAmerican]

Oh, that happens to me all the time. There are some VERY fast typists here. I’m not one of them.... Best!

[PlainOleAmerican]

GREAT POST!

Point of the YEAR!

[PlainOleAmerican]

Right again... You’re on a roll!

[meadsjn]

Thanks, but those are fairly common lessons among the lists of "things we learned" during project and mission post-mortem discussions.

Just this past election, we saw the McCain campaign surge ahead after his choice of Sarah Palin. Instead of recognizing the surge as a winning stroke of luck, and letting her take the ball across the finish line, the dissenters within his own campaign turned on her. McCain didn't help much either. Whatever military instinct he might once have had, it didn't show here.

At the beginning of any project, one of the most important tasks to ensure success is to root out the dissenters, naysayers, and defeatists, and assign them to a corner office, preferably across town from the rest of the team. However valuable their technical skills, the negativism will slowly drain the energy from the remaining team members, until the motivation factor won't improve even at gunpoint.

In the military, you send these people back to supply looking for a light-bulb repair kit or a 100-foot loop of shore-line. In the field, they will get everybody killed.

[mr_hammer]

Free Republic strikes again!

First up ending Dan Rather’s career, now coordinating a peaceful resolution and giving us back our country? WOW!

Way to go JR!