New Jersey defies Bush tyranny

It boggles the mind that it wasn't until years after the Republican Revolution of the '90s before states and cities decided they better start asserting their autonomy against fascism. You'd think the welfare "reform" bullshit would have done it, or maybe the 1996 Telecommunications Act, but I think the Idiot Act and No Child Left were the first instances after the mid-'90s in which states or larger cities defied the ruling party outright.

Now New Jersey is about to put its foot down against the Republicans' totalitarian ways. Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine has just told Bush that he's tired of his shit and New Jersey's going to ignore Bush's new rules regarding a children's health insurance program.

The Bush regime issued new rules last month designed to remove kids from the government-funded program called SCHIP. It might not remove children who are desperately poor, but it does remove many who are from working-class households. Bush is also threatening to veto bills that would increase funding for this much-needed program.

Bush has already told the state of New York it can't expand its SCHIP coverage. New Yorkers were furious, and that state is considering suing the Bush regime.

Weren't conservatives the ones who always talked about "states' rights"? Or is this yet another case of "states' rights for me, not for thee"?

(Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/13/AR2007091302139_pf.html)