Expected cost overruns for the Obama administration's "Affordable Health Care Act" are kicking in even before the controversial program rolls out.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has earmarked some $200 million for a multimedia marketing campaign to promote Obamacare.

According to government documents obtained by Judicial Watch, HHS' assistant secretary for public affairs issued a series of contracts for public-relations work -- even as a federal judge in Florida declared Obamacare unconstitutional.

Whatever you think about raising America's debt ceiling, there's a stunning contrast between the credit-challenged U.S. government and the soaring profits of U.S. multinational corporations.

Sorry, liberals, this is not a call for more taxes on greedy, rapacious corporations. At 35 percent, the federal tax rate is already the highest in the world.

But the ironic spectacle of robust private profits in the face of continued record borrowing by the public sector deserves some attention as Wall Street executives demand yet another lifting of the U.S. debt limit.