Flanking Washington at the state level

With many of the states' efforts to defund ObamaCare's exchanges, not to mention the legislative passage of Right to Work in Michigan, Steven Hayward says there are "massive opportunities for flanking liberalism’s failures from outside Washington." It begins with the states...

PowerLine: I’ve been meaning to bring up the following New York Times graphic since it was published last month, as it shows that Republicans are at their highest level of control of state governments in 60 years. Not bad for a party supposedly in deep trouble and on death’s door. (Notice, by the way, that Republicans controlled exactly zero states after the 1976 election.)

So while all eyes are on Washington and the fiscal cliff, outside of Washington a determined counterattack against liberalism is under way, and looks to have some good chances of success.

Perhaps Republicans have figured out an old tip: all politics IS local.