Sunday, August 06, 2006
Other Bloggers on Mike Huckabee
Among the things being discussed at this weekend's meeting of the National Governor's Association in South Carolina is the trend toward legislation that would "federalize" the National Guard during times of natural disaster or terrorist threats, reversing a 200-year traditional of Governors' control of guard troops at the state level.Governor Huckabee, as Chairman of the NGA, said: "...the move to shift control of the Guard to the president during national emergencies 'violates 200 years of American history' and is symptomatic of a larger federal effort to make states no more than 'satallites of the national government'", according to the Washington Post.
Blogger Tom Pauken at DallasBlog noticed Huckabee's remarks and says: "Gov. Huckabee has it right. This increasing centralization of power in the federal government in Washington, D.C., is in direct conflict with our Constitutional principles of limiting the power of the federal government and keeping power in the hands of the states, the local communities and the people whenever possible."
