States Rebel Against Washington

"Revolution is on the horizon," says Rep. Michael Pitts. And he's right -- if DC continues to spiral out of control, the people will be forced to restore sanity, and the only way to do that is by reasserting local control. The constant stream of other-worldly dictates from DC are eating us alive. No wonder we're seeing more news reports like this from the Christian Science Monitor:

There's an old joke in South Carolina: Confederate President Jefferson Davis may have surrendered at the Burt-Stark mansion in Abbeville, S.C., in 1865, but the people of state Rep. Michael Pitts's district never did.

With revolutionary die-hards behind him, Mr. Pitts has fired a warning shot across the bow of the Washington establishment. As the writer of one of 28 state "sovereignty bills" – one even calls for outright dissolution of the Union if Washington doesn't rein itself in – Pitts is at the forefront of a states' rights revival, reasserting their say on everything from stem cell research to the Second Amendment.

"Washington can be a bully, but there's evidence right now that there are people willing to resist our bully," said Pitts, by phone from the state capitol of Columbia.

For the past few years, I've often wondered out loud what it would take for people to finally stiffen up and resist an increasingly authoritative, uncaring central government. Looks like we're there.