{"id":25644,"date":"2010-07-23T08:08:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/idaho-gop-the-point-of-the-spear-in-nationwide-anti-federal-government-rebellion\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T08:08:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T08:08:37","slug":"idaho-gop-the-point-of-the-spear-in-nationwide-anti-federal-government-rebellion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/idaho-gop-the-point-of-the-spear-in-nationwide-anti-federal-government-rebellion.php","title":{"rendered":"Idaho GOP the "point of the spear" in nationwide Anti-Federal Government rebellion"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"libertarian\" Gov. Butch Otter Standing up to the Feds<\/strong><\/p>

From Eric Dondero:<\/p>

Paying for products and services with gold and silver; dumping the federal income tax; State seizing federal lands, that's the agenda of the newly revamped and excited Idaho Republican Party. Some say that the Idaho GOP has adopted in a near full-sweep, the entire agenda of both the Constition Party and the Libertarian Party. <\/p>

Idaho took the lead on the repeal of the Health Care Reform Act (ObamaCare). The Legislature is 3\/4ths Republican. And now they're branching out in other areas to push back on federal control. <\/p>

From Capitol Hill Blues<\/a>, \"Tea Party excess in Idaho\" July 19:<\/p>

To be sure, conservatives across America — many with tea party sympathies — are reshaping the 2010 political landscape amid anger over bank bailouts, health care reform, illegal immigration and federal deficits. In Maine, GOP delegates passed a “tea party platform” rejecting all United Nations treaties. Kentucky Republicans chose Rand Paul, progeny of libertarian hero and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, as their nominee for U.S. House.<\/p>

But Idaho is the point of the spear.<\/p>

After all, its state Legislature is already three-quarters Republican. In March, libertarian-leaning GOP Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter became the first state chief executive to sign a bill to sue the federal government over health care reform. It’s an anti-federal streak that survived from its 1970s “Sagebrush Rebellion” days, when the Rocky Mountain West’s residents arose to assert local control over swaths of federal land that dominate their region.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Photo of Idaho Governor Butch Otter.<\/em><\/p>

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