The 57th District’s own Rep. Susan Lynn joins Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, as Adele M. Stan describes at Alternet.org, in “blowing a kind of dog-whistle for the armed and paranoid who make up the right-wing, neo-militia ‘Patriot’ movement and the broader ‘Tea Party’ coalition.”
The nine words or phrases Stan cites that are “used by right-wing political and media figures as signals to the patriot and Tea Party constituencies” include the iconographic Don’t Tread on Me snake, the tree of liberty, patriot, tea party, 2nd Amendment, revolution, sovereign, 10th Amendment, and the government (as in, it’s bad all the time).
Rep. Lynn issued a press release yesterday that touts here signing of a “sovereignty” pledge issued by the “10 Amendment” Center in which she promises, among other things, that she will “introduce, sponsor and support legislation which refuses federal funding made on condition that my State comply with federal mandates not authorized by the Constitution.”
Government bad.
Christian Grantham, on hypocrisy watch, snarks it up:
Rep. Susan Lynn says she doesn’t like the federal government. Rep. Lynn joins a lot of interesting people across the country, like the guy in this video running for Governor of Texas who openly proclaims his hatred of the American flag and the federal government it represents.
Rep. Lynn might not realize that Tennessee is one of the fattest welfare queens of the federal government, sucking the wealth out of other states for Tennessee to the tune of $1.27 for every dollar sent to Washington so Rep. Lynn can ease the tax burden on her donors.
Rep. Lynn hasn’t explained where all those millions and millions of dollars would come from under her vision of state sovereignty, but let’s hope it doesn’t come in the form of “watering the liberty tree with blood” and praying the offering magically produces enough to pave roads and pay teachers, police, and firefighters.
All this makes one wonder, if Rep. Lynn believes government is so bad, why does she even want to govern?
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Will someone PLEASE tell me what’s wrong with State Sovereignty????
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Let me ask you something, Mary.
Do past statements by Van Jones mean that Barack Obama is a communist revolutionary?
Answer that question, then re-read your first three paragraphs.
As for Christian – well, take it for what it is. It’s a silly avoidance of the heart of the argument.
Reasonable people have been discussing the balance between the Commerce and Supremacy clauses of the constitution and the principles of Federalism (as restated by truism of the 10th Amendment) for, let’s just say, a few years now.
If Christian wants to caricature that, fine, but then that will color any future discussions on the subject – he can’t present an unserious argument then expect to be taken seriously.
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