Legislation Could Lead to States’ Rights Showdown

The Afghanistan quagmire worsens day by day, the Federal government is facing the cold, hard facts of economic reality, and Obama's approval rating continues to sink. Looks like the people are starting to roll up their shirt sleeves so they can start fixing these messes themselves -- and the only way they can do it is to recall their delegated powers back from DC. Now Missouri's jumping in:

Missouri State Sen. Jane Cunningham (R-Chesterfield) drew much applause Saturday afternoon when she informed the crowd at the Million Med March about the Health Care Freedom Act she is going to introduce soon in the Missouri Senate.

The favorable response was due, in part, to the fact that the crowd of more than 300 included physicians, nurses, other health care professionals and “ordinary Joes” gathered in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton to protest the possibility of a government takeover of the nation’s health care system.

A Constitutional amendment, the act would protect Missourians from the un-Constitutional federal health care mandates and protect their rights to make their own medical and insurance choices, according to Senator Cunningham.

Best of all, she said, the Constitutional amendment will not require the signature of the governor if it gets through the House and the Senate.

“Instead,” Senator Cunningham said with a smile on her face, “it will go directly to a vote of the people.”

Similar efforts are being waged in at least 20 states, the senator added.

“If we get all of these through our legislatures,” she explained, “it will set up a showdown on states’ rights before the U.S. Supreme Court, and I say, ‘Bring it on!’”

Not that we can trust the Supreme Court, which is nothing but a branch of the District of Corruption, to objectively determine the Federal government's own powers -- but this is still a bold step in re-asserting States' Rights against an increasingly useless, out-of-control regime.