Dr. Thomas Sowell, in his recent column for National Review, asserts that the effort to defund Obamacare is an unnecessary "distraction" which serves only to help the president and Democrats.  He argues that now is "the worst time, politically, for Barack Obama since he took office," and to focus on the futile task of defunding Obamacare, risking a potential government shutdown, diverts attention from other scandals surrounding the president. He concedes that Obamacare is "an economic disaster and will be a medical disaster, as well as destroying the Constitution's protections of American citizens from the unbridled power of the federal government." Yet knowing that these terrible outcomes are at stake, he concludes (emphasis added): But, for the same reason it makes no sense to impeach either President Obama or Chief Justice John Roberts, it makes no sense to attempt to defund ObamaCare.  That reason is that it cannot be done. The world is full of things that...(Read Full Post)