I LOL’d when I heard this:
Why the Birth-Control Mandate Makes Sense
It can cost $600 a year for prescription contraceptives. That’s a lot of money.
Ohs no’s, people shouldn’t have to spend $600 bucks a year, a whole $50 a month, to sustain their chosen lifestyle! How awful!
That’s, what, less than half what an iPhone plan costs per month, to keep from being punished with a baby?
The op-ed that follows those lines above isn’t any better. Boxer and her fellow authors (far left Sens. Patty Murray and Jeane Shaheen) seem to think that Republican women don’t exist. They see no end to what government ought to be doing for — meaning, also, to — the people. They claim there is a “war on women’s health,” when this policy has exposed something else: The progressives’ war on Christians.
Personal responsibility for one’s own choices? Not addressed. Forcing others to pick up that $600 a year tab against their core beliefs? Doesn’t matter. Meanwhile, these fools can’t be bothered to work on a national budget, which actually is among their duties under that body of law that confuses them so much.
This policy is among the most illiberal ever foisted on the American public by its elected officials. They literally lied, even to members of their own party, to get this policy passed along purely partisan lines. Their own leadership told us that we have to pass the bill even to find out what’s in it. One must be a fellow traveling liar, or simply intolerant to the core, to defend this affront.
Liberals claim the mantle of tolerance, but this policy is deeply intolerant. It forces actions on a sizable number of Americans who disagree with undertaking those actions for reasons explicitly protected in the Constitution. The numerous ObamaCare waivers, granted mainly to unions that have supported Democrats with campaign cash, open up equal protection issues and expose the politics at the core of what was sold as a “health care” bill. It was a government power bill, from the start. And this mandate has placed the administration in a very awkward political spot. Continue the abortifacient policy to appease Boxer et al, but risk losing millions of votes that went Obama’s way in 2008. Or, scuttle it, and dispirit the illiberal, intolerant progressive mob.
Not having sex is free.
By merely attempting this obamination captain zero has already lost those votes. I have asked around and everyone I know that voted for him is appalled by this, even the pro-choicers. It is hard to understand how someone could be so out of touch.
And what comes next, requiring Catholic hospitals (and others) to offer health procedures derived from embryonic stem cells?
Obama is always testing the boundaries of what Americans will put up with. This is nothing new. It’s not like it’s the first time he’s ignored the Constitution. The only difference is that it involves religion, and that gets emotional.
Correct.
This administration keeps testing the lines of defense of Freedom.
They do that because they are consistent subversives and they are at war with Freedom.
They don’t care about the votes, their strategy is not political, it is military.
I keep repeating it, no pundit wants to take it into consideration.
The way the subversives win is by creating chaos: they divide the nation, impoverish the largest possible numbers, they create hate and envy. In the midst of disorder and confusion, they are the ones who have the organization and the means to prevail.
We are simple individuals. They have a Party (not the democrats, the Shadow Party, the Party of SSoros.)
Fast and furious is another example of testing the lines of defense of Freedom.
That may well be the first time the word “genius” has been used in this context.
I really would like some enterprising individual to get an interview with Bart Stupak.
Barbara Boxer is California’s shame. The unfortunate woman is obviously brain damaged but we Californians keep reelecting her to the US Senate.
Poor Bryan of course we know Republican women exist. They are the ones who are submissive to their husbands just like the bible tells them.
You, sir, are an idiot. Good day.
Don’t go to hard on the Old Lib, Bryan. Can you imagine what the guy is married to? Take your pick: Hag, nag, shrew, misandrist.
The other day, this clown was going on about his grandson, and I thought to myself, somewhere out there is an unlucky, young kid with a limp noodle for a grand dad.
If there’s anything more pitiful than a worn out, shrew feminist, it the men they marry.
I hate to inform you old boy but I don’t have a grandson.
Perhaps not, but you’re still an idiot.
Flaming: You probably think you’re being daring and mischievous; in reality you’re irrelevant, boring, tiresome, trite, and insulting. Powerful lefty credentials for sure.
Wow! Try telling that to my Southern, Republican mountain gal wife.
Once again you’ve been a poster child for the liberal faction. Thanks.
Please don’t tell my husband that while he’s drinking hot coffee; I hate cleaning up the stains when he laughs so hard that coffee comes out of his nose.
Oh, I see we now have OccupyTatler.
It’s starting to stink in here.
Report back to your boss, David Axelrod, that you really put it to old Preston.
Let me guess- In your short time here on earth, you’ve left a trail of failed relationships and the prognosis for your future-(the same).
Oh- and of course society will have to pick up the tab…
$600?
That’s the amount of the Bush tax rebate that Michelle Obama mocked as “not even being enough to buy earrings.”
Dear Ma’am Boxer: do you realize how much cable TV costs per month? I need it for MY health (gotta keep watching Olbermann on Currently Invisible TV or I will go mad, MAAAAD, I tell ya!) What about ME? When’s Obamacare gonna cover my health-related expenses????? WAAAAAH!
If it’s “a lot of money”, then it shouldn’t have been passed without cost-benefit analysis.
The deeper you look into this whole “you have to pass it to know what’s in it” nonsense…
That’s going to bite them. Sooner or later, they’re going to find a provision buried in there even a liberal can’t defend.
Oh, honey, liberals can defend ANYTHING!
Next up from Babs:
“You know, gas is expensive. We need to mandate that auto insurace policies cover the cost of filling your gas tanks with no co-pay. And oil changes, too. After all, if you don’t change your oil, your car won’t last very long. Why should anyone ever have to pay for anything? We should make the insurance companies go to their magic money trees and pay for everything anyone ever wants. That way, we can all be happy with our cars, our birth control pills. And a pony.”
Considering the number of women whose birth control I’ll be paying for, I better see a little payback, if you know what I mean.
– to her in a restaurant once and another time on an airplane. There are Democrat politicians I know and disagree with, but at least they are pleasant.
Is it possible this whole thing is a calculated Obama administration distraction? When they give in on this point (and they will), will we declare a First Amendment victory and forget about the fact that the federal government has no right to dictate to any employer what kind of health insurance coverage he provides or even that he provide health insurance at all or that the federal government has no right to dictate to any individual what kind of health insurance coverage he carries or that he carry it at all? If so, the administration will have lost a scrimmage but won a significant battle.
Poor Sukie – that horse left the barn a long time ago. Of course the government can tell you what insurance policies will cover and that was done well before Obama came to office. Heck several Republicans voted for many of these laws where women’s health was an issue.
Oh and this has been going on for over a decade as 28 states have this law. The largest Catholic Hospital chain and 5th largest in the country has been providing this service for years – Dignity Health. NY has been doing this for years and even the Supreme Court did not want to hear the case in which it was decided in favor of NY. Romney in 2005 signed into law forcing Catholic Hospital to give anyone who comes in saying they were raped the morning after pill.
Tell me Sukie is it part of being a conservative that one is ignorant about issues?