Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Politics / Woods Zach Wamp Stands Up for States' Rights in Appeal for Kook Vote
Posted by Jeff Woods on Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:30 AM
"We have to have a state sovereignty movement under way in this country. I very much favor that. As governor I'm going to make sure that we basically put our hand up at the state line and say to the federal government, which is reckless and irresponsible. we want to chart our own future. We want to collect our own revenues. We don't want your mandates. We don't want you to send money down here that says you have to change your law so that part-time workers receive unemployment insurance permanent. "In order to receive support from the federal government, obviously you're not going to get the federal government completely out of your state. But we ought to have more authority, more autonomy. The 10th amendment of the Constitution has been run all over and trampled. There's a need for strong governors like I will be in Tennessee to restore states' rights and state sovereignty because people in Tennessee see the world differently than people in New Jersey and California. Let's run our own schools without federal intervention. Let's collect our own revenues. Let's send as little as possible to Washington because it's upside down."As an added bonus, Wamp also went on to give a ringing defense of Dick Cheney as part of a rant about Gitmo and terrorists and appeasement. Did you know "sometimes you have to be tough to protect America"?
"It's not a safe world and there are people plotting against us. And Dick Cheney is right, and I'm glad that he's willing to stand up for what he believes. Frankly, these things are not going away. You can't sugar-coat them. You can't appease our enemies, and frankly you don't want the people in this country to be worried about where they're going to bring these prisoners, so to speak. "It's the Hollywood mindset of 'oh everybody's going to sing Kum Ba Yah in the world and live together and all we've got to do is put our smiling face on it, and everybody's got our best interest at heart.' We know better than that, and sometimes you have to be tough to protect America. Dick Cheney was tough. He is tough. I admire him for coming back into the game. He could easily just kind of go off with the sunset and be quiet, but he knows these things are way too important."
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"Sovereignty! Sovereignty! Sovereignty!"
http://chattarati.com/2009/03/09/zach-wamp-leads-tennessee-house-delegation-in-earmarks/
Rep. Zach Wamp is at the top of Tennessee’s class when it comes to securing earmarks in the FY2009 Omnibus spending bill. The congressman ... now leads the Tennessee House delegation as the sole sponsor of 12 earmarks totaling $6,099,000. He is also listed as a co-sponsor of another four projects, bringing his total to $10,878,000.
Hey, Zach: Your snout is growing.
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The more immediate irony of a guy who draws a regular salary from the federal government (since January of 1995) decrying the evils of the federal government is just a little too rich for words -- not to mention all too quickly lost on the ears of the sovereignty screechers.
For those who want a historical lesson on the history of state's right and not ones framing it as simply "racist Old South" I encourage you to go to: http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=author&ID=424 and listen to the lesson by Thomas Woods Jr. entitled "The Principles of '98". This will give you the correct historical context of how Thomas Jefferson was the one who devised states rights. I encourage everyone to learn of states rights in the proper context and not on slanted pieces that have been popping up outlining anyone who speaks of this tradition as a "kook".
"Correct historical context"? "Proper context"? "Slanted"?
Yeah I checked out your site. It's kooky. We all know what "states' rights" is about and no amount of kooky revisionism can alter it. For another view of states rights kooks, go to YouTube and check out the New Hampshire sovereignty rallies.
I just want 15 more minutes of shame. I'll gladly declare I don't need the federal government. (Excuse me while I stuff more and more federal dollars into my suit).
He can name his son "States Rights Wamp," like that general who was killed at the Battle of Franklin. Catchy, isn't it? This whole tea-baggin',no new taxes, no federal assistance (especially if I don't need it!) thing is very very much like the agrarian (can you say Southern conservative) anti-industrialist mentality of the old south pre Civil War. Only this time instead of racial slavery, we have economic slavery, and a nasty elitist mentality that can pray for our side and swear they love Jeesus while enriching themselves at the expense of those "others".
Hey Zach, You don't have to worry about unemployment benefits! You have the state picking up your tab, and I don't mean paycheck, either. It would be nice to have a job where all of our medical benefits were free and the best that exist. It would also be nice to be reimbursed for fuel to drive to and from work, have your boss pay for your meals, and belong to a reich-wing mega-church to donate to your coffers!
What do YOU have to worry about?
Surely, not paying NES, rent and/or mortgage, feeding the kids, clothes (especially those school uniforms that are so unnecessary) and fuel for your car, that's if you can afford to keep it running.
So, again, whats a little unemployment extension matter to you and your colleagues?
