Yep. You're absolutely right. I mean, I really got to thinking about this stuff last night, and then the discussion with Boogie made me try to think about all the possible ways in which the Tenth Amendment could be applied, and the list of stuff I came up with that's either "unconstitutional" or "only marginally constitutional" is astouding - social security, Medicare Part D, dispensation laws, end-of-life issues, gun laws, ID cards, .... I mean, even the freakin' [B}IRS[/b] is suspect in that regard.

I mean, this would be from a guy who really "knows nothing" about the Tenth, or where it stands in relation to today's law, so that's why I really gotta go back and figure all this stuff out now.

I understand the "federalism" part that Boogie tried to explain to me, and I have a few threads to pursue in terms of the lexis searches, and so it shouldn't be too hard to connect the dots in the middle.....

I mean, yeah - see... this is kinda hard to explain.....

It's like, I've been tellin' y'all about this "visceral" reaction I get to George Bush, it's like a gut-check, and I really wanted to understand where this was coming from, 'cause I didn't really know, it was just this "visceral" thing, this "feeling", is how it started -

And so, I've been trying to figure out "why", 'cause I mean, most people, they never get past the "rhetoric", right? They call the guy an a$$howl, and that's the end of it - but I wanted to figure out WHY, 'cause I can't see calling someone names like that unless there's a darn good reason for it (and in that case, I mean, the reason would be political, not personal).

And then couple that with the additional observation, that you (generic) and I (generic) may see Bushie in completely different ways, and so why is it that you don't get the same visceral reaction that others seem to?

See what I mean? So, I've identified "several" key factors, that I can individuate out of the mess that is my "internal visceral emotional domain" -

One is, the man is an arrogant..... he's arrogant. He talks down to me like I'm a little freakin' child that can't handle the truth. He fills the airwaves with platitudes and never tells me anything useful, and then when I ask him for the truth I'm denied. Screw him. He can eat my shorts.

Second - well, you see where this is going. But the most recent one on the list, is the political one, which is the Tenth Amendment. How this started, was I got wind that the man was about to try to reach into my personal medical life and try to pull the plug on some essential medicine that I need to keep going in this world, and that made me deeply, deeply offended, and right then and there I drew the mental boundary and said, "no freakin' way".

Right then and there, was the first time I had a huge gut reaction, and now I get it every time, it's like, all I have to do is hear mention of the man's name, and I get mad. I get freakin' angry. It's unreal. No president has ever made me feel this way, EVER.

Except George W Bush. Congratulations Georgei, you're the first.

So it didin't take long to link that whole thing up with the issue of the Tenth, but what I've just discovered here in the last couple of days is that the Tenth is really important, it's like, hugely important - it affects "everything".

And yes, you're certainly right, it's an equal-opportunity club. The feds trying to intervene in my personal medical treatment is definitely and unquestionably unconstitutional, but so is the feds "mandating" my personal medical treatment through universal healthcare. So you're right, and this is exactly the issue I want to explore now.

So lemme go off and do that, I have some time for that purpose tomorrow, 'cause Nicky has diaper duty and I can probably postpone my little project another day without too many problems, so I'll just bump this up to the top of the list and we'll see what happens after a couple of hours.