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Republicans are all about states rights, right? If that’s true, how do you explain that this week the GOP congress launched a full-scale war on the rights of the states? Aside from passing a bill that would require the big, bad, evil federal government to force all of its policies on the states, GOP lawmakers also vowed to find new ways to keep the states from getting their hands on federal tax dollars.

This week the GOP congress passed a bill that would force the president to enforce federal laws, even in states that have laws that conflict with federal law. The bill, known as the ‘ENFORCE the law act’ ( https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr4138) would allow congress to sue the president for not enforcing federal law over state law. Among other things, the bill would require federal prosecution for pot and hemp, even in states that have legalized their use.

The ‘Enforce the law act,’ introduced by Trey Gowdy (R-SC), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Jim Gerlach (R-PA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA), would essentially wipe out the power of the states to govern themselves. The bill passed along party lines. Not surprisingly, it stands no chance of passing in the Senate.

House republicans are also outraged that some states are still feeding the poor ( http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/food-stamp-cuts-104672.html). After the GOP congress used a technicality to try to gut the federal food assistance program, some states scrambled to find a way to keep on feeding the poor.

House Speaker John Boehner claims that states are ’cheating’ by using federal food assistance dollars for, well, feeding people. House Republican Frank Lucas has vowed a new set of hearings, new bills and a new set of amendments, all to keep states from being able to claim SNAP funds.

Yes, the states do have the right to allocate energy assistance funds to low-income citizens. States also have the right to claim SNAP funds to help feed the poor, since that is what those funds are set aside to do.

But when states rights collide with the GOP agenda of making poor people suffer for being poor, the GOP stands against states rights. It’s clear that making sure poor people don’t eat is far more important to republicans than states rights will ever be.

In spite of all the rhetoric about states rights and limited government, the truth is all too obvious. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/03/15/gop-launches-war-states-rights/

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Originally posted by Niki2:
This week the GOP congress passed a bill that would force the president to enforce federal laws, even in states that have laws that conflict with federal law.

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Suppose that, for example, a conservative gets elected President and decides that the Justice Department will no longer enforce Roe v. Wade or any of several anti-discrimination laws if states decide to pass laws banning abortion or allowing discrimination. Would that sort of states rights be okay?

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Suppose that, for example, a conservative gets elected President and decides that the Justice Department will no longer enforce Roe v. Wade or any of several anti-discrimination laws if states decide to pass laws banning abortion or allowing discrimination. Would that sort of states rights be okay?

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Wow. Are you suggesting that "states decide to pass laws banning abortion or allowing discrimination" is not EXACTLY what the GOP has been doing for several years now?

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Originally posted by Geezer:
So Frem. I notice that you've dropped the "Anarchist Propaganda Minister" title.

You quit being an anarchist and become a Democrat now?

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