At this past Saturday’s 10th Amendment rally in Providence, I had a chance to ask some quick questions to the statewide and semi-statewide candidates who attended.
I asked Mark Zaccaria, Republican candidate for Congress in Rhode Island’s Second District, about the difference between running two years ago, when people were saying American capitalism was dead, and running this year, when people are holding 10th Amendment rallies at the Rhode Island Statehouse…

• …”with the advent of the Tea Parties, we have a lot of newly-minted fiscal conservatives, people who have woken up, looked around and said, my gosh, how did we get here and what can we do about it…”

• …”while the 10th Amendment gives you state sovereignty…the 9th Amendment says the government can do nothing to disparage the rights of the people”…