In the wake of the Justice Department's fresh challenge to Shelby that inestimable model of Southern manhood, Congressman Blake Farenthold, toots the canine foghorn of crypto-Confederate states' rights:
Once again, it's the federal government telling the states what they can and can't do. Even after some defeats on the Voting Rights Act in the Supreme Court, the administration still continues to thwart the will of the people of Texas.
This clown has a law degree, although it seems his legal education never quite got around to studying the U.S. Constitution or its Amendments, nor, apparently, did his undergraduate or secondary or even elementary schooling encompass any U.S. history, save the nullificationist bombast of John C. Calhoun.
It would be redundant to note that Rep. Farenthold is a Republican, and downright insulting to your political intelligence to add that he's also a Tea Partier. As both, he's shocked, hurt and ignorantly outraged that the federal government is telling the states what they can't do; next he'll be openly vexed about Texas' lack of a state tariff.
In a way, it--he--is kinda funny. Here's a sitting U.S. congressman who is manifestly clueless about the federal constitution he's sworn to uphold as well as the nation's sweeping history of which both his tribal primitivism and civilized opposition are products. It's funny, until one recalls that Rep. Farenthold & Friends is also charged with sorting out the complexities of government budgets and weighing the potential harm of unraised debt ceilings.
God help us all.