What's funny is that you have conservatives effectively appealing to the same sort of basic privacy rights that they find so abhorent as a basis for Roe v Wade.
Apparently in their world it's fine for old white men to tell young black women what they can and can't do with their uterus, but it's not ok for a young black man to tell old white men what they must do with a small percentage of their lucre.

Minimal?

$2 is too much.

oh, and that FB group against him doing this has more than 12,000 members right now

not political? then announce now that you aren't running for governor.

Ordinarily, I'd be all for making sure the health care bill is constitutional. I just don't (and after Citizens United, why would anybody?) trust the current Roberts-led Supreme Court to make that decision. And if McKenna was being honest, he'd acknowledge that he and the other AGs are counting on the Court's conservative idealogues to rule in their favor. He's not interested in the constitutionality of it; he just wants to defeat it because he believes his constituency will reward him later with the governorship.

Crass opportunism, through and through.

As always, I appreciate a nice, long-winded response to a simple question. But I've still got one question: how much is it gonna cost?

He's a liar!

I can't believe anyone honestly cares about protecting the sanctity of the U.S. Constitution anymore. This country has proven we're ok with a king, W. clearly broke FISA law and no one cares. It's just a piece of paper now.

Me, I'm hoping McKenna gets real sick, real soon. Of course, he gets his health insurance from the state, so it's probably the best that money can buy, but still. I'd like to see him argue this case from an iron lung.

"The costs will be minimal."

Just like Iraq?

The Q&A didn't answer my question: why didn't these Attorneys General recruit an individual citizen who is actually injured by the mandate (i.e. someone who doesn't have health insurance and who would be subject to the tax/fee but refuses to pay it) to be a plaintiff in this lawsuit? States have no standing to assert this injury. And if there's no actual human being who will be injured by this law -- if they can't find a single person who doesn't have health insurance yet makes enough income to be subject to the penalty for failure to carry insurance -- then this is just a political performance, one that the federal courts will throw out for procedural reasons.

@10: He will be greeted as a liberator.

I really can't believe he has the gall to say this isn't political.

Time for a recall vote.

No reasonable person should EVER join a suit spearhead by Florida.

I read the headline very quickly and thought that it referred to our AG as a "Republican Constipator" foolish me

Is he elected? Can't gregoire fire him?