This from the newly-elected attorney general of Virginia:
We have an overreaching central overnment—a government that seeks to plan and control virtually every aspect of our lives and our economy, from health care, to energy, to automobile manufacturing, to banking and finance….While we can derive some satisfaction from last November’s election results as a backlash against the centralization and growth of raw federal power, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past where conservative victories were followed by liberal policies….We must hold the representatives we put into office accountable to first principles, and then demand from them concrete action. For the failure of conservative principles has not been due to the principles themselvers, but to the failure to fight for them.
From Hillsdale College’s Imprimis, "Reasserting Federalism in Defense of Liberty," it’s well worth reading the whole thing.