Yesterday's New York Times posted an article yesterday about Missouri's Attorney General, Chris Koster, who has joined other attorneys general in challenging the central provision of Obamacare. Attorney General Koster has filed a "friend of the court" brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta. The article also points out that Attorney General Koster was formerly a Republican state legislator who switched to the Democrat party in 2007.
The Times reports:
"In Missouri, a ballot referendum aimed at nullifying the law was approved by nearly three to one last year, and the legislature recently passed resolutions urging Mr. Koster to join the legal challenges. The state's lieutenant governor, a Republican, filed a lawsuit last year seeking to block the law."
Obviously, Obamacare is not popular in Missouri. The only other Democrat who has joined the lawsuit was Attorney General Buddy Caldwell of Louisiana, who later became a Republican.
Meanwhile the Weekly Standard reported yesterday:
"The latest Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows that Americans have now supported the repeal of Obamacare for 56 consecutive weeks (every single week since it was passed). In 55 of those weeks, including this one, Americans have supported repeal by double-digits (perhaps the political equivalent of a multi-hit game?). This week, repeal is favored by 10 points (51 to 41 percent), by 13 points among those who feel "strongly" (41 to 28 percent), by 16 points among independents (53 to 37 percent), and by 29 points among independents who feel "strongly" (44 to 15 percent)."
I don't know what the future of Obamacare is. I do know that the majority of Americans would like it repealed. It would be nice if Congress would pay attention to the wishes of the American people.
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