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POLITICO: States say to feds: Get off our turf. The wave of government bailouts and the Obama ad?

By Glenn Reynolds

POLITICO: States say to feds: Get off our turf.

The wave of government bailouts and the Obama administration?s economic stimulus package are reviving interest in an issue that?s largely been dormant since the mid-1990s: states? rights.

From Idaho to South Carolina and in dozens of other states, Republicans are sponsoring resolutions designed to call attention to what they view as a worrisome expansion of the federal government at the expense of the states.

?What we have is a federal government that is exceeding its authority and blackmailing the states into submission through printed dollars,? said Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Sam Rohrer. ?We are trying to say to the federal government, ?You have a role, but your role stops not too far outside Washington, D.C.??

I think they’d be better off pushing Randy Barnett’s Federalism Amendments.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).