I'll admit I still get a little homesick. Even after 15 years of living in Colorado I miss my home state of Missouri from time to time.

I grew up in Kansas City, and, yes, we boast a lot more than just decades of unprecedented sports futility. We also have our jazz and blues, barbecue and, oh yeah, fountains.

But what Missourians don't have is much information about the exchanges set to start enrolling in just a few short weeks.

That's because Show-Me State voters not only thumbed their noses at Obamacare by refusing to set up its own state exchange, they went a step further by preventing (by law!) state and local officials from even working with the federal exchange. Talk about shedding your historical image as a bellwether state…

Now I'm not saying the state should embrace Obamacare, but by taking such an aggressively uncooperative stance, lawmakers there not only hurt their own constituents, they're handing the administration just one more excuse.

“If PPACA fails,” I can hear Sec. Sebelius saying, “It's the governors' fault.”

It would be like my boss telling me to cover employee benefits, for this magazine, and me proceeding to pen stories about video games, auto mechanics or craft brewing. Not only would I not be able to complain once my pink slip showed up, I couldn't exactly turn around and blame him for losing readers.

Like it or not, it's the law of the land. Blatant obstructionism will only play into the hands of those eager for its failure as a path to single-payer “nirvana.”

In other equally inane political news, as Congress headed home for its August recess (what are we, some kind of socialist European state?), we hear from an incoming GOP freshman, U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, from Maryland.

So his righteous indignation, as originally reported by Politico, at having to wait a month for his own health care benefits to kick in next year, is amusing at the least—and some might say borderline offensive. Especially since Congress, of course, is exempt from the very health care law all the rest of us have to endure next year.

And, finally, let's look at all the hard work they did so far this year: Out of more than 5,000 bills and resolutions introduced this year, Congress managed to send a whopping 15 of them to the president's desk. When I first saw that figure, it nagged at me as yet one more reminder of our Do Nothing Congress. But, upon reflection, given their track record, I'm not sure I'd want them passing anymore laws.