Cuccinelli to take on the whole federal government in one big lawsuit.
By E M Barner | Friday, April 1st, 2011 | Catch-All
Earlier today, Cuccinelli’s office announced the AG’s intention to sue the federal government back into the late 1700s.
Cuccinelli’s official spokesman told BD:
“Frankly, the AG is tired of messing around. Two piddly lawsuits just aren’t enough to roll back all the the federal government encroachments on Virginia sovereignty.”
“Federal regulations mandate how much ethanol we have to put in our gas tanks, keep Virginia from tolling interstates at every border, tell us what light bulbs we can use and how much water we can flush down our toilets. It’s time we put them in their place.”
After suing the federal government over the EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding and suing the federal government over a new health insurance mandate that conflicts with Virginia law, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli must have decided he still has too much time on his hands.
“The founders just wouldn’t have tolerated this kind of nanny state,” Cuccinelli told us: “You know, they rebelled over a tea tax!”
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Cross-posted to AprilFoolsDay
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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12 Responses to "Cuccinelli to take on the whole federal government in one big lawsuit."
Ah, if only it were true!
The irony is the left is essentially accusing him of it, and we are wishing he would.
Love it.
I hope he means every word of it. What can I do to help?
Go Ken Go!
Yes Jamie, I hope he means it too. Just as Governor Walker and the tea party republicans have over reached, so has our AG gone out of his way to demonstrate why he is the AG for about 1/5 of Virginians, not the rest of us. But it takes being in office and having the responsibility to represent the body politic, not just the few purists, that has demonstated in each case why governance by extremists is so damaging. Fortunately, that demonstration is what energizes the moderates and the independents who overreacted in the last election cycle but who now see the effect of zealotry in office.
Just in case anyone missed it: April Fools!
Mike Barrett,
How do you figure that Cuccinelli “is the AG for about 1/5 of Virginians?” He won the election with 58% of the vote.
Does that mean that he is the AG for 58% of Virginians? If so, does that mean that Barack Obama is President of 29 States and the District of Columbia?
Elections have consequences. Deal with it.
Just as Governor Walker and the tea party republicans have over reached….Fortunately, that demonstration is what energizes the moderates and the independents who overreacted in the last election cycle but who now see the effect of zealotry in office.
Are you suggesting that it was the “energized” moderates and independents who occupied the Wisconsin state house, or was it they who fled the state and prevented the political will of the people from being carried out?
Mike, all of the budgeting that has been done since 1980 is based on an unsustainable credit bubble that was being constantly blown by the Fed via a regime of constantly lowering interest rates, along with constant Keynesian “stimulus,” courtesy of regular increases in the federal deficit. Investment returns for pension plans, for example, are based on “historic” returns in this unrealistically happy economic environment. These returns will not be realized in real terms for at least the next 20 years unless we radically change the tax code and stop punishing productivity and wealth creation. Even the radical left is forced to admit that wealth cannot be redistributed until it has first been created. Without real economic growth, pension plans are bust at the state and local level. And I mean real growth, not the faux growth caused by deficit-spending and quantitative-easing negative real interest rates. Real growth, accompanied by real wealth creation is what we need. The left just thinks they merely need to steal more of other people’s stuff and everything will be fine again.
Maybe you’d like to explain where the money will come from to continue paying public employees their better-than-private-sector salaries, benefits and retirement. Please enlighten us with your economic wisdom.
And if there is no magical source for money, then explain how Walker was supposed to budget.
HisRoc,
No, you silly person, Obama is president of all 57 states.
Oh! Be still my beating heart! April Fools or very wise. Time will tell what is ripe and what is rank.
Jacoby: Well, first off if there was a “budget crisis” in Wisc., the governor could have foregone the big tax breaks he gave to businesses. Wisc. public employees did agree to cuts, that wasn’t enough for the Republicans. If there’s a budget crisis shouldn’t everyone in the state pitch in? Or is it your contention that workers, who didn’t cause the crisis, should bear the sole burden for resolving it?
Vaughan,
When you tax something, you get less of it. This is a well-known and accepted aspect of tax policy; it is often used to encourage or discourage behavior, for example to discourage smoking, drinking alcohol, etc, or to encourage the use of so-called green energy.
Guess what you get when you tax business?
On the subject of taxes, we need tax simplification so that everyone pays their share and no one avoids taxation.
On the subject of shared pain; you say “workers” but I assume you mean “government employees.” Government employees were made promises that couldn’t be kept, as I outlined above. Did you read that part? There is no money. Get it? The government spent it, borrowed more and spent that, and is now printing still more and spending that. There is no path forward that leads back to “the way things were.” Things never really were that way; it was an illusion caused by 30 years of Fed-induced credit bubble. It’s over.
I think we can agree that the banks have been kept in the lap of luxury, and bank shareholders and bondholders have been protected from losses by taxpayer largesse courtesy of the Treasury and the Fed. If you would like to form a coalition to rout out the banksters, I’m your boy. The banksters and their investors should have been allowed to fail, close, go bankrupt, take their losses.
In order to keep the shadow banking system liquid, SIGTARP Neil Barofsky estimated that at the height of the crisis the Treasury and Fed either lent, spent, or guaranteed $23.7 Trillion in bailouts and guarantees.
That is a good indicator of the depth of the problem. Note that that number is about 1.5 times U.S. GDP. None of the problems that caused the crisis have been solved. Not a single one. Do you see? While those guarantees have been largely rolled back, they have been papered over by allowing the banks to quite literally ignore accounting principles. If the major U.S. banks were to implement GAAP accounting rules, they’d arguably all be bankrupt immediately, in spite of the $1.5 Trillion the Fed has printed up and deposited in the “excess reserve” accounts. “Bank Profitability” is a canard. For them to be paying bonuses, dividends, etc is a sham meant to fool the masses.
Apparently it’s working.
Why does no one understand this?
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