State lawmakers try to halt health care changes

AP Associated Press ^ | 9.12..09 | By JACQUES BILLEAUD

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PHOENIX – Republicans in more than a dozen states opposed to President Barack Obama's push for health care overhaul have mounted state-driven efforts to block federal intervention in health care, with some early success.

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About Paul Bender, mentioned in the article:

While on the University of Pennsylvania Law School faculty, Professor Bender took leave in 1965-66 to serve as Assistant to U.S. Solicitors General Archibald Cox(*) and Thurgood Marshall(**). He served as General Counsel to the Federal Commission on Obscenity and Pornography in 1968-70(***). From 1993-96 Professor Bender served in the U.S. Justice Department as Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the U.S. under Solicitor General Drew Days(****).

(*) Special Prosecutor during Watergate
(**) Notoriously Leftist Supreme Court Justice
(***) Which found that “pornography is good”. Rejected by the US Senate in a 60-5 vote, with 34 abstentions.
(****) NAACP racial litigator for both Carter and Clinton.

So I think we can rest assured that Paul Bender would be an objective analyst of the situation, if perhaps to the left of Nancy Pelosi.

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“My sense is that if they [the federal gov’t] pass a comprehensive reform bill, it would probably pre-empt what the state is doing,”

Yeah, right. Let’s see the federal gov’t enforce it. Their powers of coercion with respect to the states are very limited. They can cut off federal money and that’s about it.