Even though Sarah Palin no longer leads our state her legacy continues, as the Palin-bot she left in charge, Sean Parnell, sues Federal government over health care bill. Is there no end to the stupid?

From ADN:

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said Tuesday the state will join 20 others led mostly by Republican governors in suing to overturn the health care overhaul bill signed into law last month by President Barack Obama.

Calling it an "unprecedented exercise of congressional power," Parnell said Alaska would follow the other states in challenging the constitutionality of the mandate that people buy health care insurance or pay a fine.

"For the first time we now have a federal government dictating our economic activity," Parnell said. "Alaska will use the courts to fight this federal encroachment on our citizens."

Everybody in Alaska knows that Parnell is essentially a charisma deficient, slightly less masculine version of Sarah Palin. However until just recently he has been so insignificant that he can barely be seen with the naked eye.  However now with an election coming Parnell has decided that he needs to do something bold to gain some conservative credibility.  So being a disciple of the incredibly politically savvy Sarah Palin (Snark alert!) he has decided to do something truly stupid to make himself stand out.

"Look there is Governor Sean Parnell.  I can see him now!  Damn is he an idiot!"

Not only is this case probably going to cost my state many thousands of dollars (Parnell estimates $5,000, but other equally ignorant governors are wasting as much as $100,00 of their stat's money), it simply cannot win.

Many constitutional law experts say that the health insurance mandate falls within the constitutional purview of Congress. They say there are plenty of other cases that show Congress has just as much authority to regulate economic inactivity as it does activity, said Stanford University Law School professor David Freeman Engstrom. It will be difficult for the Supreme Court to step away from those precedents, Engstrom said.

"There's lots of case law where Congress has regulated economic inactivity," Engstrom said. "It seems really unlikely that the court is going to stick its neck out and strike down a signal piece of social legislation by doing what many would say is charting a new constitutional path."

Sadly our governor is not the ONLY Republican politician in the state blowing the Teabagger dog whistle.

The decision for Alaska to join the suit drew praise from Parnell's Republican counterparts, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Young already has signed onto a Republican-backed House bill that would repeal the law.

The faster Alaska can dump these Republican obstructionists and move into the 21st century the better off our whole state and it's people will be. We cannot have the 2010 elections soon enough in my book.