Letters We Wish We'd Written Dept.

From today's "Letters to the Editor" in the Kaplan Daily:

"I have never looked to either political party to be a paragon of consistency, but the news that Republicans are again trying to pass federal laws restricting abortion access...at the same time that they challenge the constitutionality of the Democrats' health-reform law has more than the usual whiff of hypocrisy.

How can it be that a federal law regulating the national health insurance market and expanding health-care coverage to millions of Americans is beyond Congress's power or somehow treads on individual liberty, while federal mandates restricting what doctors and patients can and cannot do inside a hospital room are perfectly acceptable? Does a woman's uterus have a sufficient nexus to interstate commerce that the GOP has satisfied itself on the constitutionality of Congress regulating in this area?

Perhaps the next member of the GOP to offer a soaring paean on the wisdom of limited government and the blessings of liberty should deliver it in front of a mirror."