GOP Nullifiers Would Take Us Back To 1830s or something...
3.25.2010
The Republican attorney general's move reveals how far into the past America's New Nullifiers want to push the nation. They don't just want to abandon a more than seven-decade-long understanding of the Constitution's interstate commerce clause that has allowed the federal government to regulate a modern, national economy.
They also want to resurrect states' rights doctrines discredited by President Andrew Jackson during the nullification crisis of the 1830s and buried by the Civil War.
Yes, those old, backwards, antiquated notions of 'states' rights' and 'constitutional muster' keep rearing their ugly heads.
You know, at least the democrats are consistent on the issue, although I think dead-wrong. The Republicans, on the other hand, think they can ennoble Lincoln and then turn around and complain about the states' inability to curb the expansion of the federal government.
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