— Andrew Olmsted: Holding on to Federalism
Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura makes a wise request of the Bush Administration regarding welfare reform. Ventura correctly points out that welfare reform is not the job of the federal government (and, in fact, is wholly unconstitutional based on a strict reading of the Constitution).
My litmus test for federal judges: “What do you think about the erosion of federalism since that communist FDR screwed it all up in the ’30s?”