Here's a link to my full story at spokesman.com on how a group of Idaho lawmakers, including freshman Rep. Vito Barbieri, R-Dalton Gardens, is pushing ahead with plans to introduce legislation tomorrow to "nullify" the federal health care reform law, even though an Idaho attorney general's opinion says such bills violate both the state and federal constitutions and state lawmakers' oath of office. "I'm not concerned about that," Barbieri said. "I think reasonable minds can differ."

Rep. Bill Killen, D-Boise, an attorney who requested the attorney general's opinion, said, "It's basically what the civil war was all about - are we a federal government or are we not? Apparently these guys have decided to fight the civil war all over again. It's crazy. It's like we haven't got better things to do in this economy than this." He added, "If they're really serious about it, why don't they nullify the federal income tax law and we can keep all that money and solve our budget problems? That might be more productive."