The letter of the law

So-called political "conservatives" are upset about the recently-adopted health insurance reform law, calling it unconstitutional--which it pretty clearly is not.

But the same political "conservatives" aren't upset by Arizona's new racial-profiling-based anti-immigrant law, which pretty clearly is unconstitutional. Rather, they favor it, and hope more states will adopt similar statutes. This has unexpectedly forced national immigration reform to the forefront of the political agenda.

I think the hypocrisy is pretty clear. These are not people who have carefully studied (or even ever read) the U.S. Constitution, and hope that what we as a nation do is true to its meaning. They are not like Barack Obama, who is in fact a constitutional scholar. Rather, they are low-information, very biased voters who toss around the phrase "unconstitutional" at anything they happen to dislike. The same way they use terms like "socialist" or "fascist," simply as insults that they don't understand.

I, personally, am in favor of laws that are constitutional. Of course. All Americans must be. Having a government based on a written Constitution, interpreted to be sure by the judicial branch and subject to an amendment process, is one of our greatest glories and blessings.