The non argument on the left in defense of Obamacare

Jonah Goldberg:

‘It’s the law of the land”: This is rapidly becoming the preferred shorthand argument for why criticism of ObamaCare is just so, so wrong. It also serves as the lead sentence of a larger claim that all attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act are really symptoms of a kind of extremist right-wing lunacy.

For instance, here’s Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who walked out of the painting “American Gothic” to deliver this homespun wisdom: “We’re not going to bow to Tea Party anarchists who deny the mere fact that ObamaCare is the law. We will not bow to Tea Party anarchists who refuse to accept that the Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare is constitutional.”

Where to begin? For starters, I know a great many self-described members of the Tea Party, and I’ve yet to meet one who wouldn’t acknowledge — admittedly with dismay — that ObamaCare is the law. Nor have I met one unwilling to concede that the Supreme Court ruled that ObamaCare is constitutional.

Lurking beneath such lazy rhetoric is a nasty psychological insinuation that there’s something deranged not just about opposing ObamaCare, but about being a conservative. This is an old smear, used to discredit conservatives in order to avoid debating them.

Reid is a dim and sallow man whose tin ear long ago started to rust. But it’s worth pointing out that “anarchy” is not defined in any textbook or dictionary I can find as “the absence of ObamaCare.”

Yes, it’s true, most “Mad Max,” zombie and other post-apocalyptic films are set in worlds without ObamaCare, but that’s really not the most salient factor.

More to the point, petitioning Congress to repeal a bad law through formal procedures is not the kind of behavior educated people normally associate with anarchism.

Indeed, the hypocrisy of liberals who find it somehow “extreme” for citizens to organize peacefully to overturn a law they consider bad and unjust is a marvel to behold. The Fugitive Slave Act was once the law of the land. So was the Defense of Marriage Act. Were those determined to overturn them anarchists?

On an almost daily basis, I get a fund-raising e-mail from a Democrat or from liberal outfits begging for help to overturn Citizens United — which, in case you hadn’t heard, is the law of the land. I can’t wait for the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade, just to hear liberals announce, “Well, the fight is over. The court has spoken.”
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Liberals have become too lazy to construct rational arguments so they try to shut off debate with bromides and nonsensical assertions.  Insults are not argument and insulting our intelligence with non arguments is not going to work.