It asks the state's congressional delegation to work to restore a proper federal and state balance over Guard units.

I assume these same people would have been against Ike's nationalization of the Alabama guard in the 50s in favor of a "proper federal and state balance[.]"

New Hampshire - "Live free or Die"
Vermont - "We Surrender"

thats diversity baby...

Hot news flash for VT: it's called the "National Guard" for a reason.

Massachusetts tried to excercise some level of control over the National Guard. They lost.

Commonwealth of MA v. U.S. D.O.D.
No. 88-1223 (October 1988)
Petition for Writ of Certiorari -- denied

Blue folk live on Pluto not Earth.

...examine how National Guard deployments are affecting state readiness.

readiness for what? the Parti Québécois tank units that are massing at the border?

anonymous made the point I was gonna make - yet another failed 80s liberal tactic (ahem, Dukakis) being revived here.

From: The Oval Office
To: The People Of Vermont, who have given us Bernie Sanders, Jumping Jim Jeffords, Pat Leahy, and Howard "Republicans Are Evil" Dean

Dear Vermont,

Thanks for sharing!

Regards,

GWB

Crank is correct: the losing politician was none other than Michael Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, Presidential candidate, tank driver, and man who mismanaged the Commonwealth of MA so thoroughly that the population got themselves a GOP governor -- and has had one ever since.

His petition for Writ of Certiorari got burned, bashed, and buried.

And the DNC calls themselves the intelligent ones. Hey, VT, your reality check just bounced.

From the Christian Science Monitor, clueless, clueless moonbat:

Ms. Racht, who helped shepherd Huntington's petition, says she doesn't want to cause more hardship for families with loved ones in Iraq. "But I feel we have a state National Guard that's in Iraq and shouldn't be there. People who went into the Guard thought they would be doing things like floods. They weren't expecting to go and be part of an army fighting a war."

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You don't go play soldier 1 weekend a month and 2 weekends a year to help out w/floods.

Back during GW1, they let this kid go cos when he signed up, he didn't know he might have to kill people. They also made him pay back what we spent on his schooling.

Well, Vermont might need its Guard units to quell a race riot or someth -- oh, wait a minute.

This is just a rehash of the whole Montgomery Amendment farce when the Democrats tried to keep Reagan from sending Guard and Reserve engineers to Central America... the Democrats are so bankrupt for ideas they had to resurrect this dog, and they couldn't even think of it before the election...

Boy, they're pretty desperate to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory aren't they?

Interesting note: Vermont is the only state to have recently elected a full-on socialist.

[Oh crap, I was a bit quick with the post button above.]

The socialist in question is Representative Bernie Sanders. The only socialist in Congress -- now in his 7th term, last elected with 65% of the vote. Should tell you something about the huge fever swam that is the state of Vermont.