Where The Louisville Courier Journal Sees "Responsible Leadership" On The Part Of Jack CONway, I see Abject Lack Of Public Service. Read More Below.

Responsible leadership

Across the land, state attorneys general are lining up to support — or not — a legal case challenging the constitutionality of President Obama's health care reform act. In our region, we have a case of one attorney general acting in the public's best interest and the other playing putrid politics.

Kentucky's Jack Conway refuses to join in what he sees as a political, not legal action, destined to make headlines but to achieve nothing for average citizens in need of health insurance. Some may believe that it would have been better politics for Mr. Conway, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, to have joined in the suit. His chief opponent, Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo, has taken the low road and says if in the Senate he would have voted against health reform. For shame, for a doctor from one of the poorest, most underserved areas in America.

Across the river, Indiana's Greg Zoeller has put his state in league with 13 others supporting a legal challenge to the law. Mr. Zoeller, a Republican, contends that the mandatory provisions of the law are neither constitutional nor fair.

Mr. Conway says it's an unwise use of taxpayer dollars to pursue a “political stunt.” We agree.