Another veto in the works? Let's hope so.

Hot off her smackdown of the Art Pope's destructive budget plan, Governor Perdue is apparently inking up her veto stamp to stop an unconstitutional bill to undermine health reform. She's taking her cues from Attorney General Roy Cooper.

Cooper says a challenge to the federal health care law is “unenforceable” and could endanger federal health care funding to North Carolina. As a result of the letter from Cooper, a spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue said the governor giving more thought on whether to veto the health care bill that the legislature passed this week. She has 10 days to make a decision.

The letter by Cooper came as the Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill challenging the new law pushed through by President Barack Obama, saying it imposed an unconstitutional mandate on citizens to buy health insurance.

As I wrote earlier this week, the Republican bill violates the North Carolina Constitution on its face. Even Bob Orr, constitutional scholar that he is, has to agree on that point.

Sec. 5. Allegiance to the United States.
Every citizen of this State owes paramount allegiance to the Constitution and government of the United States, and no law or ordinance of the State in contravention or subversion thereof can have any binding force.

The Republican bill is patently unconstitutional, Governor Perdue. Veto it.