In medicine when a doctor doesn’t know the cause of a diagnosis but his knowledge and the symptoms are supported by the literature and the conclusion, but the cause is unknown – it is called idiopathic.  There is a lot of that in medicine historically, and an exponential amount of it going on in today’s politics.

For example Morgan Freeman, the actor extraordinaire, believes the Tea Party is racist, but fails to provide any support, or symptoms, for his contention.  At least medicine has this in its favor, even though it often can’t do much for the patient in treating these conditions of unknown causes.

It seems to be expedient these days to participate in idiopathic charges in politics without even knowing what the politician is saying, but what else is new?

Then there is President Obama who promotes green jobs, based upon environmentalism, solar energy and electric cars, again, a premise based upon an idiopathic cause.

He personally, without due diligence, put’s his environmental beliefs and reputation on the line for a solar energy company called Solyndra, promotes his green jobs and environmental cause, loans it more than a half-billion dollars as part of his stimulus program, and the company goes bankrupt within months.

Obama’s environmental efforts are unsupported by investors because the symptoms he is trying to cure by unknown and unproven causes, are in fact idiopathic and thus not believable.

Recently, Obama attacked Gov. Rick Perry, a GOP presidential candidate, and blamed the cause of the devastating fires in Texas on Global Warming, a contention Perry doesn’t believe in because the statement in his opinion is idiopathic.  The Obama statement is also politically without cause, but that doesn’t prevent it from being made.

So you can see how this medical term has entered the world of politics.  It’s too bad Obama didn’t do his due diligence on the term idiopathic before he introduced Obamacare – a bill that will cause unknown harm to a nation with medical symptoms, yet to unfold, that will be undoubtedly be diagnosed as – idiopathic.