text: Taking this conversation and turning it a bit, it is fascinating how double faced Conservatives are on this issue. 
  So conservatives are screaming that "states rights" should be the guiding force for the way laws should be directed in this country. If you look at the President's proposed budget, a lot of his cuts are based on the theory that states will pick up the tabs of what they want and run the programs themselves without federal involvement. 
  Comes along now a issue where a state is disagreeing with the White House. What do they do, they take their case to the court and have a judge determine whether it is legal or not. This practice is also a state's right issue as a state has the right to go to court to seek redress from a policy it is against. 
  So conservatives would like to enforce states rights on things like the federal budget but does not want to invoke states rights when it comes to redress from Federal policy? Can't have it both ways folks. And Hawaii is not treasonous.