# South Carolina takes another shot at nullification **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098 "2013-06-04T05:36:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/1 "2013-06-04T05:36:50Z")
Because it’s always worked so well for them in the past. [Obamacare Nullification Bill Forges Ahead in South Carolina](http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2013/05/03/obamacare-nullification-bill-forges-ahead-in-south-carolina) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/2 "2013-06-04T05:52:08Z")
South Carolina gets so moody when it can’t afford its lithium. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/3 "2013-06-04T06:22:08Z")
In the Marvel Universe there is an ultimate weapon – Reed Richards once used it to face down Galactus – called the Ultimate Nullifier. Because its use utterly annihilates both target and user. Nothing to do with this, of course, which is more along the lines of the Ultimate Wet Firecracker . . . ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/4 "2013-06-04T06:30:34Z")
I don’t care what your opinions are about health care. You’d think there’d be at least one South Carolina legislator who’d stand up and say “We tried nullification over tariffs and slavery and segregation - and we got our ass handed to us every time. Maybe we need to come up with a new idea.” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/5 "2013-06-04T09:28:57Z")
Ah, good old South Carolina–_still_ “[too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Petigru#Career)” after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/6 "2013-06-04T11:36:11Z")
Eh, the part about reimbursing people who get fined by the federal government seems legit. If a bunch of people democratically decided that’s what they wanted their policy to be, then whatever. The rest of it kind of bounces back and forth between drivel and insanity. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/7 "2013-06-04T14:35:12Z")
The hilarious thing is that there are also some SC legislators who want to require a prescription to buy Sudafed now. Recall, this at the same time as they’re making sure people still can’t go to the doctor. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/8 "2013-06-04T14:37:56Z")
[This](http://www.thesouthoftheborder.com/) is all you need to know about South Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/9 "2013-06-04T14:44:57Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [This](http://www.thesouthoftheborder.com/) is all you need to know about South Carolina. Shades of the Frito Bandito! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/10 "2013-06-04T14:53:20Z")
Please do something that necessitates federal troop mobilization! Every generation should get to see South Carolina get its ass kicked. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/11 "2013-06-04T17:21:04Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [This](http://www.thesouthoftheborder.com/) is all you need to know about South Carolina. I drove past that place once at night. Just turned a corner and blammo - so much garish neon in one place that it looked liked Vegas had been condensed and transplanted. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/12 "2013-06-04T17:26:52Z")
Vegas was _never_ as tacky as SotB. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2013, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/13 "2013-06-04T20:32:48Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > Eh, the part about reimbursing people who get fined by the federal government seems legit. . . . The antidote for socialism is more socialism? That’s weird. We could have gone with a public health care program from the get-go: even South Carolina is on board! ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/south-carolina-takes-another-shot-at-nullification/660098/14 "2013-06-06T18:58:33Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The antidote for socialism is more socialism? That’s weird. Think of it as a homeopathic remedy.