Five More States Invoke the 10th

Maybe Rome wasn't built in a day, but its modern manifestation seems to be self-destructing pretty quickly. Here's more proof the DC megastate can't sustain itself:

Last week, HUMAN EVENTS reported that eleven states, Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas, had all “all introduced bills and resolutions” declaring their sovereignty over Obama’s actions in light of the 10th Amendment.

These actions are in response to the Obama administration’s faux-“stimulus” legislation which directly assaults the rights of states to reject the money coming from the federal government. So far, several Republican governors -- among them South Carolina’s Mark Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal -- have said they would refuse all or part of the stimulus money because of the constitutional infringements and because of the additional unfunded liabilities they impose on the states.

This week, HUMAN EVENTS is happy to report that five more states have decided to invoke the 10th as well.

Let there be no doubt that this sort of thing will gather speed. With an economic depression possibly already upon us, and with the clueless Federal government determined to push through policies guaranteed to make things worse, the centrifugal forces will accelerate -- not out of ideology, but out of the urgent necessity of escaping a collapsing political system.