The GOP passed a revised continuing resolution Saturday, which seeks to delay the “Affordable” Care Act individual mandate for a year, along with repealing the tax on medical devices (that last is popular with Democrats, too). As John Boehner pointed out, this is what the American People want (well, most want the “Affordable” CA immolated and replaced with a real solution). In that CR we also find
(CNN) House Republicans have added a measure aimed at limiting contraceptive coverage to the spending bill coming up for a vote Saturday night, a spokesman for Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-Kansas, told CNN.
A senior House leadership aide confirmed that development.
The so-called “conscience clause†would allow employers and insurers to opt out of preventative care for women which they find objectionable on moral or religious grounds. That prominently includes birth control, which most insurers are required to provide for free under current Obamacare rules.
It’s not just about women, but men, too, since men would be able to purchase contraception and undergo sterilization procedures. That last one is bigger than contraception, along with Obama’s requirement that the health insurance provide abortifacients. It’s sad that this even needs to be encoded in law, considering what the 1st Amendment states in regard to religion.
And, yeah, this has driven the Left to Moonbat Level 8
- Lawyers, Guns, and Money says the GOP is punishing women (because they’re apparently too fragile to be able to earn $10 or so to buy their own condoms and/or birth control pills)
- The Moderate Voice (snicker) calls it insanity to allow people to follow their 1st Amendment right to “conscience”
- The comments at Talking Points Memo are a typical cesspool
- Outside The Beltline thinks this is pandering to the hard-right (and, yes, I consider OTB a lefty site: almost everything is negative about Republicans, could read like The Daily Kos, and features the same type of unhinged liberals commenting, and the liberal comments are very popular, while Conservative comments get “down thumbs”)
- The winner for moonbattery is Little Green Footballs with “And Yes, the GOP Even Managed to Work Denial of Birth Control Into Their Clownish Budget Bill“. Don’t you think it’s rather misogynistic to think women cannot buy their own birth control without the helping hand Of Unkle Same Of Amerika?
And now back to the Senate.
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
The Tea Party Republicans must be willing to shoot their hostages (the US and world economies)in the head if they are to feared.
They could take the long view and continue their strategy of voter suppression and state-level gerrymandering that gives them their outsized influence in Washington, but they correctly surmise that that approach will not win them enough Senate seats and the Presidency. This truth leads to their terrorist threats to blow up the economy. They are frustrated and angry that they cannot get their way by democratic means. It’s the last gasp of a desperate minority.
Democratic means? Oh, you mean that Obama Care monstrosity that was voted in by the Democratic House in the wee hours of the night even though the majority of their constituents didn’t want it? Is that the democratic means you’re talking about?
Why do you think the Democrats lost all those seats in the House in 2010?
William Teach: It’s sad that this even needs to be encoded in law, considering what the 1st Amendment states in regard to religion.
â€â€˜Can a man excuse his practices to the contrary because of his religious belief? To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.’
“Subsequent decisions have consistently held that the right of free exercise does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a ‘valid and neutral law of general applicability on the ground that the law proscribes (or prescribes) conduct that his religion prescribes (or proscribes).’“
Mike G: Oh, you mean that Obama Care monstrosity that was voted in by the Democratic House in the wee hours of the night even though the majority of their constituents didn’t want it?
The Affordable Care Act was passed with a majority in the House, a supermajority in the Senate, and signed by the president.
Mike G: Why do you think the Democrats lost all those seats in the House in 2010?
In 2012, Democrats gained seats in both chambers of Congress, and reelected Obama.
Mike G.,
The ACA passed the House and the Senate and was signed by the President. So what’s your point?
And the Dems gained in the House and Senate in 2012, AND Mr. Obama was re-elected in a landslide over a Republican ticket that ran on revoking the ACA. So what’s your point? The ACA passed the House and the Senate and was signed by the President. So what’s your point?
Conservative radicals have made it clear they have no interest in solving the healthcare issue. They have blocked progressive efforts at every turn. Conservatives think that government involvement in healthcare is counter-productive. Democratic Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Clinton and now Obama have tried to institute universal healthcare over the objections of conservatives.
Jeffrey: Conservative radicals have made it clear they have no interest in solving the healthcare issue.
What’s interesting is that the Hastert Rule means that 27% of the House can hold up all legislation, including the continuing resolution or raising the debt ceiling. That means a small minority can hold hostage the workings of government, even the credit of the United States.
If you really think that Outside the Beltway is left-wing, you’re more lost than you know.