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@spmosher
Republicans are the same way on "states' rights." They want the states to have rights, unless they do something the Repubs don't like. For instance, look at physician-assisted suicide. States are supposed to retain control over matters of health and medicine, and the Supreme Court in Quill v. Vacco indicated that physician-assisted suicide should be tried in the "laboratory of the states." So what do the right-wingers do? They attempt to do an end run around the Supremes by saying that physician-assisted suicide is "not medicine." Therefore, it doesn't fall under the purview of the states, etc. etc.
The sheer hypocrisy is mind-boggling.