Health care reform remains a contentious issue even after the bill President Obama and the Democrats shepherded through Congress was signed into law today. There are now thirteen states joining in a suit against the government to prevent its implementation, and Virginia is filing a separate suit. The issue involves the mandate that people who can afford health insurance, and whether it's constitutional for the federal government to make people to buy it.
This is only the latest in a series of embarrassing moments for the right, which has done everything in its power to cripple Obama's agenda, from hurling racist epithets at him and several black congressmen to hurling homophobic epithets at Barney Frank to Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) denouncing the bill as a "baby killer" for funding abortions with federal money. (It does not.)
The twelve Republican state attorneys general (along with one Democrat) bringing on this omnibus suit include four fellows running for governor of their respective states. One is Florida attorney general Bill McCollum, a nerdy former U.S. House member who's no slouch when it comes to being a sore loser. He was one of the House prosecutors who impeached but failed to convict President Clinton in the late nineties over Monica Lewinsky.
Beware of geeks bearing grudges.
As Vice President Biden, would say, this is a big #/**ing deal.
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