My prediction: Obamacare is toast and the democrats... and Obama... with it.

Ever since the totalitarian Obama government shoved this socialist/communist program down our throats, I have maintained that, at it's base, it's unconstitutional.

The idea that government can force anyone to buy anything as a cost of merely existing is offensive at it's base.  The idea that the basis for this scam was mostly lies (Really?  It's going to make premiums LESS expensive, even though the pool of insured increases by 40 million plus?) and that it was slammed through during a lame-duck session with a certain outcome of unconstitutionality?

Then, we have an idiot running the show who has been quite unnecessarily belligerent with the Supreme Court.  Does anyone believe that his confrontational, nonsensical "I am a constitutional scholar and no one else knows what the hell they're talking about" arrogance of a Jim Moeller... or a Lou Brancaccio.

One of the few things Rob McKenna did, actually rather out of character given his cowardice on so many other important issues like the local Cowlitz scam and the public employee unions who, it appears, are going to own him like the 13th Amendment was a suggestion; was his joining of the suit against Obama care.

The moronic leftists like Gregoire, Murray and Inslee who threw a fit because, in this instance, McKenna did the right thing are about to look as idiotic as Obama himself... and that's saying something.

So, how much of it is unconstitutional?

To say "all of it" is an emotional, knee jerk, right wing reaction.

I am troubled by the requirements government places on private business concerning who, and under what circumstances, they can sell a service.

For example, I oppose the rather nonsensical "no prior condition" rules.  I oppose them because I believe that forcing an insurance company to take on an already sick patient is much like forcing a car dealer to accept a car with no engine while requiring them to provide a full trade in value.

I oppose the bizarre concept of REQUIRING companies to treat people 26 years old like they're minors.

That's as bizarre as treating women like they're a minority.

Certainly, the mandated health care purchase is unconstitutional.  The government can no more force you to buy insurance to exist then they can force you to buy coffee to exist, or the internet, or satellite radio.

And all of this is, really, a damned shame.

Obama was so concerned about socializing us that he forgot that the art of politics is incremental.

Instead of focusing on areas of agreement, he focused on areas of divisiveness.

He could have been a great president.  Instead, he's become the disaster that I thought he would be.  And besides his inept handling of our economy, the failure of Obamacare will be his greatest achievement.

I never thought I would say this, but I long for the days of Jimmy Carter... since Carter was honestly over his head but, I am convinced, did the best he could.

With Obama, I would like to hope that this is his best, but it's easy to fall into a pattern where you can come to believe his actions have been deliberate. 

But as he continues to fly in the face of increasing public opposition, as he fails to acknowledge the course we're on, as he fails to advocate for the austerity we so desperately need... we see our future... and its Greece, and Spain.

And he does nothing to change course.  And that's really hard to ignore.