Wouldn't it be nice if either side would pick a side....

and stick to it.  For months I read here how essential it was to pass health care reform, Obamacare was right, had to happen, because the uninsured do not receive medical care.  Had to happen.  Okay, in muted form, it passed.  Then states sued because they feel it is unconstitutional for the federal government to require citizens to buy health insurance.  The Obama admin defends the suit on this basis:

When accidents or illnesses inevitably occur, the uninsured still receive medical assistance, even if they cannot pay. As Congress documented, such uncompensated health care costs -- $43 billion in 2008 -- are passed on to the other participants in the health care market: the federal government, state and local governments, health care providers, insurers, and the insured population," the motion says.

Will the real Obama administration please step forward?  The one who supported the law because the uninsured are denied medical care, or the one who now says they have to mandate people be covered because the uninsured do receive medical care which we all have to pay for (code for here's the shaft workers of America, you are going to pay for it one way or the other, because it is STILL cheaper to pay the penalty than insurance premiums).  What a monumental joke this has become.  They should have scrapped it started over, but it was more important to make a "point" passage than to get it right.

And frankly, I think the states are right to sue.  I think the federal government has its fingers in too many pies and I do firmly believe in state's rights.  I do not think that much power over our daily lives needs to be situated at the TOP of the scale.  Very dangerous precedent.

Sighhh.  I detest politicians, I don't care if their mascot is a donkey (there is some poetic justice there) or an elephant (there as well).  When will true representatives of the people make a resurgence??  Perhaps when their salaries drop to closer to what we make than what the executives they complain about ad nauseam make, that they have to live like the rest of us, no golden parachute (and they have the gall to complain about executive's golden parachutes when their retirement is LUDICROUS). 

While I may not agree with everything the "tea party" folks say, at least they have the guts to stand up and say I am mad as he** and I am NOT taking this anymore. 

Off my soapbox now.