Repeal is the new litmus test, and McCollum’s cynical ploy

March 25, 2010 · Posted in Bill McCollum, Healthcare reform, People, Politics 

TPM has a good run-down of the new right wing litmus test: repeal or else! … which has been the running theme of RedState for more than a week. So just how cynically political is the ploy? So cynical Charlie Crist is desperately flailing around trying to get down with it. Pitiful. Meanwhile, Bill McCollum gets yet another public dressing down, this time from the Herald Tribune editorial board, which writes in part

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum’s decision to sue over the new federal health-care law is a divisive, overly political waste of state resources.

… If McCollum wants to pursue his quixotic quest as a private citizen, fine. But his obligations are different as an attorney general of Florida, a state carried by Barack Obama in the 2008 election. McCollum has a duty to use the resources of his office — paid for by taxpayers — in the public interest.

Taxpayers should also question the propriety of hiring McCollum’s former law firm, Baker and Hostetler of Orlando, to work on the lawsuit for McCollum and 12 other attorneys general. The firm will be paid whether the states win or lose.

Read the whole thing here.

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