{"id":2112,"date":"2017-02-24T00:15:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2112"},"modified":"2017-02-24T00:15:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T06:15:04","slug":"trump-just-handed-power-back-states-rejecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/trump-just-handed-power-back-states-rejecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump just handed power back to the states. Why are they rejecting it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/643264342\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 70.033670% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/643264342?et=o7XKuRFeQm1gj5sl_m_0aw&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=0EKcoSSTnQPgbBd6qYR_PVUCUC1krtgi2XmRnpg26Ts=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President Trump just handed every governor in the union a gift. By removing the Obama administration\u2019s federal co-ed bathroom edict, states now have the power to make that decision for themselves. What\u2019s not to like about that? Apparently a lot for some.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Democratic Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton isn\u2019t too happy about it, telling the press:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI strongly disagree with the Trump administration\u2019s decision to withdraw the protections that his predecessor provided for transgender students in being able to use school bathrooms which match their gender identities.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stranger still, Dayton <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/dayton-transgender-students-deserve-our-compassion\/414628743\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">added<\/a>, \u201cThis is not a quote states\u2019 rights issue, it is a human rights issue, and it should be a constitutionally protected right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since when did allowing boys to shower with girls become a \u201cconstitutionally protected right?\u201d But if that\u2019s how the governor wants things to work in Minnesota, go for it.\u00a0He doesn\u2019t need the federal government to make it happen. So, just shut up and do it\u2026 NOW.<\/p>\n<p>But maybe there\u2019s something else at play here. John Hinderaker at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2017\/02\/why-is-democratic-governor-outraged-that-trump-ceded-power-to-states.php\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">PowerLine blog<\/a> nails what\u2019s really going on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is not exactly a news flash that the Left has abandoned any pretense of interest in federalism. But I think part of what is going on here is that liberals are glad to have left-wing policies that are unpopular with their constituents imposed by far-off and unresponsive Washington.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah, yes. Now we\u2019re at the heart of the matter. Politicians like Dayton don\u2019t want the dirt on their hands. They prefer cowering under federal \u201cguidance.\u201d That way, voters\u2019 ire for controversial policies is\u00a0aimed\u00a0toward Washington. It\u2019s very cunning, but it\u2019s cowardly.<\/p>\n<p>You were elected to govern, so, do it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goes way beyond bathrooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump just handed power back to the states. 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