I was reading about the 13 state attorneys general who told congress that if Ben Nelson’s “Cornhusker Kickback” remains in the health care bill, they will bring legal action against the federal government. The AGs signing the bill are from Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington state. Good for them, I thought.
It wasn’t until I read to the end of the article that my blood pressure started to rise.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., said the letter was a political ploy.
“This threat stinks of partisan politics,” he said in a statement. “If [SC Attorney General] Henry McMaster wants to write federal law he should run for Congress not governor.“
Um, excuse me, but the states created the federal government, not the other way around. Perhaps Mr. Clyburn needs to read the Constitution. The federal government does NOT have the right to do anything they’ve been doing lately. The suggestion that a state official has no right to question the actions of the federal government is quite telling as to the mind set of those in Washington, DC.
Clyburn may also want to take a peek at the Declaration of Independence.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Maybe it’s time for the states to come together and scrap the federal government and start over.
Update: For some reason the last sentence didn’t show up in the original post.
I have been making the case that our Federal Government is rapidly becoming unconstitutional as they usurp more and more rights from the states and reserve them for themselves.
Anyone doubt this just read some of the history leading up to the Civil war including the election of Lincoln.
He sent telegrams to the states to ask for troops to defend Washington D.C.
The response was basically go to hell. The standing army was so small that he had to beg to the states for help. The way our founding fathers intended it to be.
Now states are nothing but subservient welfare recipients of the Federal government.
Its all wrong. The Civil war was more destructive then most people realize. The Confederate states were excuses given for the Winning Northern states to take control of America’s government.
Remember the constitution was formed in 1789. Just 70 years later we had a civil war. Im not sure that there were still not a founding father or two still alive when the war started. So this was not ancient history to them. It was a part of their current thought process. Just like world war two which ended 65 years ago is a very real part of our lives and we still have many people alive that served in that war.
If you read the history of our nation you realize that many of the states did not want to cede their power to a central government. They were essentially promised that IF it didnt work out they could LEAVE the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
When they acted on that…they were attacked and conquered. Their states plundered and their women raped and their towns razed.
Do not misunderstand I am glad our nation did not dissolve but the Civil war has not stopped in this nation since the Election of Lincoln and our Federal government continues to take more and more and offer more and more threats.
They are beholden only to themselves now.
Ben Nelson proved this. Mary Landrieu proved this. Harry Reid Proves this and Im sure when the GOP is in power we can find Republicans who prove this.
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