Roy Cooper's Choices

Let's see.

We join a suit that goes after an overzealous Baptist church.  The actions of that church are hard to defend, although it can be reasonably argued that free speech is an issue in that case.

But we refuse to join a suit that would throw a roadblock in the implementation of Obamacare.  The new health care law almost certainly is unconstitutional, but we behave as if nothing is wrong.

Attorney General Roy Cooper has a right to make his own choices, according to his own discretion.  But that does not necessarily mean he is making the right choices.

Meanwhile, NRO thinks the GOP is dropping the ball on Obamacare:

Republicans ought to be seizing on each revelation to press the case for repealing Obamacare. It is, after all, the worst law the Democrats have enacted on Obama’s watch; and it is also the GOP’s best issue in this year’s elections. Instead Republicans have largely allowed the Democrats to switch the subject from their unpopular health-care legislation to financial regulation, oil spills, and immigration. They have been reacting to the news instead of trying to make it.

Comments

[Ken Hill]

Hagan has released this on health care. Still selling snake oil.
http://hagan.senate.gov/newsletter/newsletter_6_3_2010.html

[Joe Guarino]

That is an interesting piece, Ken. Snake oil is a proper characterization. The premise that you can increase benefits and reduce costs while maintaining access is a fiction; but Hagan and her compatriots convinced the American people it could happen.

[Roch101]

Roy Cooper is one of those Democrats who disappointments for not living up to the things Democrats are supposed to be good at, like defending civil liberties. What you describe as "overzealous," Joe, is actually extremely repugnant. It is, however, free speech and will likely be determined so by the Supreme Court, Cooper's opinion not withstanding.

Cooper is also behind the offensive affront to civil liberties that would allow the state to collect DNA from people when they get arrested. I would not be sorry to see him go if the Republicans could offer up somebody who isn't going to use the law for equally objectionable, if different, affronts to liberty.

[Joe Guarino]

Roch, I am actually surprised that so many states signed on to that suit involving the church. And I don't dispute your characterization of the church's behavior as repugnant.