I hate to comment on something when everyone else in newsworld, blogosphere, and talking-head-land has already created a chorus to follow, but this is a topic that 89 percent of this country feels is important and, being that I’m with that 89 percent of citizens who actually feel that words like “illegal” mean something, it would be a shame to keep my big mouth closed.

Well, for the record my mouth is actually quite small but I can use some big words.  I had my share of Mary Poppins growing up, so watch out now…

First of all, the Arizona fight has just begun.  A case like this will be heard by the Supreme Court, which means we have a long way to go yet.  I recommend we don’t even pay any mind to the 9th Circuit, to which it’s going to be appealed today, lest we remember the 9th Circuit’s liberal roots.

It is, after all, the most overturned court in the country, which could be seen laughably in 2006 when 19 of the 22 cases the Supreme Court reviewed from the 9th Circuit were overturned.  Essentially, conservatives still hold the fort in the Supreme Court, and for that I’d like to give a shout out to Justice Kennedy (a conservative-sometimes-swing vote on the court) and thank him for agreeing to at least wait until 2012 to retire.

Now that we’ve run through the reality, let’s move to the real issue here.  Ahem.  Are you kidding me?  Really?  What is going on in this country?  I believe there’s a little piece of agenda floating under the radar here.  Think about this:

Not too long ago – oh, let’s say around October last year – the Obama administration pulled out its peace pipe and paved a golden road for Mary-Jane lovers everywhere by proclaiming that they would not be enforcing federal pot-smoking rules if the state had laws on the books allowing it [insert blurb about medical marijuana and yadda yadda].  Summary?  Obama would only enforce federal regulations if they were complimented by state ones.

So what does this have to do with Arizona?  Everything.

It’s about power.  Under the current administration’s mentality, total control of the entire country belongs in the hands of the federal government.  Hey, the Yanks won the Civil War so states’ rights are dead now [insert raised eyebrow].  Obama thinks that if you stretch the Constitution far enough, you can start to think of those little local governments as annoying rabble to be ignored.  As long as they don’t have any real power, they aren’t any real threat to their transformation of this country into an enslaved force of social justice centrality among other colorful terms.

Read this:  If the federal government has the power to decide when and where it enforces its own laws while effectively denying states the ability to enforce them by arguing preemption, the republic will be dead.  We will be under a dictatorship run by the majority party in the federal government.

Then democracy will be dead.  Folks, that’s a lot of power for a government to wield.  How long will it take before elections are affected, given yesterday’s SEC announcement that you can no longer find out why the government is shutting you down, using the financial reform sham and yesterday’s further attempt to dismiss states’ rights as a matter of preemption?

Scary stuff.