I think the environmental issues might be part of interstate commerce, especially if it impacts a navigable water way or the air quality. In addition the funding formulas for education have made education interstate for years and the No Child Left Behind Act, reinforces this. As a practical matter, the health delivery system in this country is part of interstate commerce. Insurance carriers, HMOs, PPOs, are interstate, not to mention hospital chains like Hospital Corporation of America. By the way, the federal government via Medicare, Medicaid funding, federal employee health insurance, and the VA, is the single largest provider of funding for health services in the country.
It may come as a surprise but if one believes that the Republican Party is conservative and that conservatism is the best answer to the problems facing the country, then one must wonder why a party that has appointed around 55% of the sitting federal judges, controls both houses of congress and the White House, has not been able to rectify the evils that the party routinely blames upon liberals.
Conversely liberals must wonder, why life as they know it has not come to an end, and the dire consequences predicted has not materialized. From a practical standpoint, in ones day-to-day life, it seems to have made little difference which party is in power for the majority of people.
Both major parties seem to be elitist, arrogant, and patronizing, with little grasp of the daily lives of ordinary Americans. I see little changing, as most seem to buy into the propaganda of their partys platform. When the Rhetoric is compared against results neither has delivered.
Life is no joke(smaller government is) but funny things happen
jon
