I rarely agree with editorial opinions in my local newspaper, The Las Vegas Review/Journal. But, this is a good one that needs to be shared with a larger audience. Here's the opening:
A few weeks back, we weighed in on Idaho’s plan to thumb its nose at the Affordable Care Act and allow insurers to sell cheaper, more bare-bones health insurance policies than those mandated under Obamacare.
Congressional Democrats were apoplectic. Three times in February, The Washington Post reports, they confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar demanding to know what he planned to do in response to a state that brazenly refused to follow federal law.
It’s true that principles and politics rarely mix well. But the inconsistency and hypocrisy on display here was particularly shameless given the philosophical confusion that marks the Trump “resistance.”
Fast forward to last week. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday that he would file suit against California for passing a series of “sanctuary state” measures intended to undermine federal immigration law.
Suddenly, Democrats are rushing to defend a state that has made crystal clear it has no intention of adhering to federal statutes. Gov. Jerry Brown demanded that Mr. Sessions “apologize to the people of California.” The state’s two Democratic U.S. senators reached for the smelling salts.
It goes on to cite case after case where Dims conveniently pick and choose what laws they think are fine for them.
Full editorial @ EDITORIAL: Democrats seek to pick and choose the laws they obey
