The Washington Post has a great article today about the Arkansas Governor and Attorney General saying they won't join in the lawsuits against the new health care reform bill.
"They tried it here in Arkansas in '57 and it didn't work," Gov. Mike Beebe (D) told reporters recently. "I think you got to tell people the truth. And if I understand the law, the truth is the federal government can't just be defied by the state governments."
The analogy to the Little Rock school segregation case in 1957 was on target, and it is no surprise at all that the current resurgence in talk about states' rights comes at a time when we have just passed the biggest change in federal legislation since the civil rights victories of the 1960s.
I have some fun news- I'll be on Rachel Maddow's show tonight at 9 PM EST (leading off at the top of the hour) talking about my post here at OpenLeft regarding Joe Wilson, John C. Calhoun conservatism and the modern Republican party.
And David Sirota is going on at 9:15. It's OpenLeft-tastic today at MSNBC.
