Friday, December 21, 2007
Federalism usurped
I saw this story while cruising Miss Huffington's website, and although their is not much information in the story, a simple dogpile.com news search brings up many stories. One of the main reasons, although not the only, nor the biggest, is that I am a Republican is that the idea of divided government has more of a voice within my party. I hate to pull out the "If you read the Constitution" card but seriously; is there anything in our Constitution that says the feds have the say in regulating auto emissions. Absolutely not! While I tend to disagree with the California plan, although not entirely, I am not a citizen of that state. So what right do I have as a citizen of the state of Minnesota to dictate policy like this to residents of California. The answer is that I have none, and the Federal government, and the Bush Administration has made a mistake here. Although, to be fair, All of the blame does not rest at the feet of the Bush Administration, (gasp). Had Democrats not taken it upon themselves to use the Environmental Protection Agency to initaite emissions standards to begin with, we would not find ourselves in this situation. As usual, Democrat's love of the power of the Federal government has come to roost for them...Perhaps they will now see why the Feds shouldn't be given so much power
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