GOOD CALL – AT 10:58 A.M. ET:  One of the major political projects our side will have is undoing the enormous harm that Barack Obama did in his two terms as president.  From Daily Caller: 

State officials across the nation are fighting former President Barack Obama’s last-minute decision to impose federal authority over state-run election systems, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), which includes officials from all 50 states and U.S. territories, appealed to President Donald Trump in a resolution approved Saturday at the group’s winter meeting to overturn the Obama policy, but doing so may encounter unexpected resistance from the new administration.

Obama ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Jan. 6, 2017, to classify local and state election systems under the new federal designation of “critical infrastructure.”

By a voice vote, the NASS declared that it “opposes the designation of elections as critical infrastructure,” with opposition cutting across party lines. The NASS includes 33 Republicans, 21 Democrats and one independent.

COMMENT:  A classic example of a power grab.  The Trump administration has expressed some opposition to the NASS position, but the secretaries of state believe that can be reversed.  It would be in the Republican tradition to keep federal hands off state election systems. 

Read the whole thing.  Remember that we are the United States of America, and state election systems are at the heart of state power.  No doubt the left would love to control those systems from Washington.

February 20, 2017