states-rights

The republicans are making the “states-rights” argument; however, the irony here is that they are proposing that health insurance should be “sold across state lines” which effectively would gut the ability of the states to regulate and give all the power over to insurance companies rather than state or federal regulation.

Think Progress » A guide to debunking Republican talking points at the health care summit. 2010

Mr. Suthers 'states-rights effort clearly passed him on a conservative litmus test, but his haphazard comradeship with Massey is a poor fit for Colorado.

Anne Butterfield: AG for Reelection: Grandstanding and Carelessness for Colorado Anne Butterfield 2010

The state-owned Bank of North Dakota BND has allowed North Dakota to maintain its economic sovereignty, a conservative states-rights sort of ideal.

Ellen Brown: How Wisconsin Can Turn Austerity Into Prosperity: Own a Bank Ellen Brown 2011

There may be a states-rights/pre-emption out to this.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Congressional Democrats Already Preparing to Lose Control of Congress 2009

The state-owned Bank of North Dakota BND has allowed North Dakota to maintain its economic sovereignty, a conservative states-rights sort of ideal.

Ellen Brown: How Wisconsin Can Turn Austerity Into Prosperity: Own a Bank Ellen Brown 2011

The administration's states-rights stance infuriated social conservatives who believed the executive should uphold this law.

Anthony Gregory: Gay Rights on the Move? Obama's Incoherent Record Anthony Gregory 2011

Nor did the crowd touch on Ron Paul's states-rights approach, but rather worried he was an "isolationist" and a bit "nutty."

God and the Economy in Iowa Kimberley A. Strassel 2011

Still, his insurgent candidacy has captivated pro-lifers, tea partiers and states-rights advocates in a way that made a pro forma primary a test of what conservative principles the state's generally moderate GOP will embrace and how hard it will hug.

POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2010

Ron Paul now third in Iowa espouses a strict states-rights approach to social issues.

God and the Economy in Iowa Kimberley A. Strassel 2011

Never mind too that some of the very Republicans now complaining that it "costs" too much to be in Libya, or Afghanistan, are the same states-rights Republicans who like to argue that the federal government is constitutionally constrained to funding only a few items.

The GOP's War Powers Opportunism Kimberley A. Strassel 2011