Obamacare’s apologists and their allies in themainstream press have spent an inordinate amount of time and energy dissecting the supposed hypocrisy of conservatives on the individual mandate. They are indignant that the GOP is now in lockstep opposition to the mandate even though two decades ago some Republican senators — most of whom have long since departed from the scene — supported the concept in theory in large part to fight against even heavier-handed government intrusion into the health sector by President Clinton. How transparently political and outrageous of them!