Dispensing With The ‘It’s The Law’ Rhetoric

By Frank Salvato

Over the past few months, Progressives and Democrats who favor the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) - both elected and not - have insisted that the new and expanding entitlement will go forward as planned because, after all, it is "the law of the land." When I ponder this statement I find myself less inclined to laugh and more inclined to succumb to sadness. That a faction that holds the Constitution in such disregard would so disingenuously foist the hypocrisy of this statement in defense of what is arguably an unconstitutional law, defies humor.