re: #87 Obdicut

This isn’t states-rights conservatism. This is actually an attack on states rights that shows that even that isn’t an honest ideological position on the part of the GOP. This is a massive claim of greater power for the congress and Presidency. If this were the case, the federal government would gain enormous power compared to the states, since the judiciary has so much of its power and function at the state level.

This is party authoritarianism.

Well, it’s more chest beating and strawgrasping to appeal to those sortsdirectories who think they are privy to special rights, with curtailed rights for everyone else. States rights didn’t have to become that, but GOP conservatism in its current incarnation has indeed culminated in that.

I do wonder who else besides the Bush AGs will give Newt the smackdown on it. My hopes are not high.