Recent Democratic party political forces attacking our Attorney General Rob McKenna is a prime example of favoring Constitutional principles and our system of checks and balances only when it fits your political viewpoint. How many of us have read Article One and the 10th Amendment and have offered opinions based on their politics alone, not even speaking to the issue at hand?

Presently a hospital supplying mandated medical care is one example I have heard. Only public hospitals that receive federal dollars have federal mandates put upon them. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has the power to require flood insurance in certain regions, but only when the person has a loan that is federally insured. Examples of federal mandates are always based with federal dollars being used by those mandated. Social Security and Medicare are federal programs with a tax supporting them.

Private citizens being mandated to purchase a privately held commodity is a new method of government involvement in our lives. Of course it should be examined. The issue constitutionally should not be a concern of those who are for or against the bill. The possible precedent has warning signs for all of us. History has shown what governments have done to their citizenery with this power.

The Constitution protects all of us, not just when we support or oppose a bill. Republicans failed to address the issue when they had control, the Democrats appear willing not to address our Constitution.

If the bill is constitutional, it will pass.

Mick Sheldon

Kingston