Not Now, The Grown-Ups Are Fighting

Add Nevada to the growing list of states with a Democrat as AG (Catherine Cortez Masto) who thinks suing over Obamacare is a waste of taxpayer funding, and a GOP Governor (Jim Gibbons) who says "do it anyway or else."

Gov. Gibbons released the statement following Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto's decision not to pursue litigation.

"I am disappointed the Attorney General has refused to fight for the rights of Nevada citizens," Governor Gibbons said, "But I swore an oath to protect Nevada citizens and that is exactly what I intend to do."

"The Reid/Obama nationalized health care plan will bankrupt Medicaid in Nevada and will force us to make huge cuts to education and public safety," Gibbons said, "and it will force Nevadans to buy a product or face IRS penalties." Gibbons added, "This type of federal intrusion into our lives and our state must be stopped."

The Attorney General has suggested that Nevada need not file any legal action because other states already have. "I want a Nevadan in this fight against this federal intrusion," Gibbons said, "I will not surrender to this federal assault and I will not succumb to political pressure while the rights of Nevada citizens are trampled."

Earlier Cortez Masto delivered a four page letter to Gov. Gibbons. In it Masto writes, "In my professional judgment, joining the litigation filed by 14 other states, as you have suggested, is not warranted by existing law at this time."

It's amusing that the rights of Nevadans that Gibbons so vehemently sees as being trampled by the Obamacare law requires him to...trample the rights of his own AG and find some way to force her to sue over her professional objections.  Georgia governor Sonny Purdue has resorted to starting impeachment proceedings against his state AG Thurbert Baker for Baker's refusal to join in.

We're impeaching AGs for not filing frivolous, partisan lawsuits now?  Go go party of fiscal responsibility!