Obstruct and Blame Strategy Worked Perfectly for Republicans, Horribly for Americans

[JDeuce]

"states rights"

that section is all you need to know really, these issues don't even get off the starting block

what we have today is a federal government the founding fathers so desperately wanted to avoid and they made that perfectly clear in numerous ways

The tenth amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Haaaaaaalelujah!!! Cue the music when Chevy Chase gets his Christmas lights to finally turn on...

Willie gets it. Then again, Willie is a smart guy. In the Constitution, the federal government has 18 enumerated powers (ie boundaries of responsibility), and anything that isn't on that list is left up to the individual states to do as they please. It ain't that complicated. If you like liberal state policies, go move to one. If you like conservative state policies, go move to one. Although it wouldn't take long for conservative states to flourish while dim states would quickly freefall into disaster zones, but that's not the point...