Boehner to Obama: Reverse Birth Control Mandate or We Will
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner accused the Obama administration Wednesday of an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom,” promising that Congress will reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with free birth control if the president doesn’t.
Escalating a fight that has roiled the presidential race, Boehner demanded that President Barack Obama overturn the policy that Boehner called a violation of First Amendment rights. The administration’s mandate has angered religious groups, especially Catholics, who say the requirement would force them to violate their beliefs against contraception, and congressional Republicans.
“This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country cannot stand, and will not stand,” Boehner, a Catholic and Ohio Republican, said in a rare floor speech.
On the other side of the Capitol, the Republican onslaught continued, with GOP senators vowing to push ahead with legislation to undo the requirement.
Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., stood with other GOP lawmakers, and called the new rule “an unprecedented affront to religious liberty. This is not a women‘s’ rights issue. This is a religious liberty issue.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the issue wasn’t contraception but “whether the government of the United States should have the power to go in and tell a faith-based organization that they have to pay for something that they teach their members shouldn’t be done. It’s that simple. And if the answer is yes, then this government can reach all kinds of other absurd results.”
The contentious issue has pushed social issues to the forefront in an election year that has been dominated by the economy. Abortion, contraception and any of the requirements of Obama‘s health care overhaul law have the potential to galvanize the Republicans’ conservative base, critical to voter turnout in the presidential and congressional races.
The White House, facing a public and political outcry, signaled on Tuesday that a compromise is possible. Options could include granting leeway for a church-affiliated employer not to cover birth control, provided it referred employees to an insurer who would provide the coverage.
Another idea, previously rejected by the administration, calls for broadening the definition of a religious employer that would be exempt from the mandate beyond houses of worship and institutions whose primary purpose is to spread the faith. That broader approach would track a definition currently used by the IRS, bringing in schools, hospitals and social service agencies that deal with the general public.
Republican White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have been relentless in assailing the administration, criticizing the president at campaign stops. Romney has accused Obama of an “assault on religion” and Gingrich called the rule an “attack on the Catholic Church.”
But Romney has drawn criticism from his GOP rivals and the White House over policies when he was Massachusetts governor.
In late 2005, Romney required all Massachusetts hospitals, including Catholic ones, to provide emergency contraception to rape victims. Some Catholics say the so-called morning-after pill is a form of abortion.
Romney said he did not support the Massachusetts law, which passed despite his veto. But he also said at the time, “My personal view, in my heart of hearts, is that people who are subject to rape should have the option of having emergency contraception or emergency contraception information.”
White House spokesman Jay Carney seized on that policy at his daily briefing Wednesday.
“The former governor of Massachusetts is an odd messenger on this given that the services that would be provided to women under this rule are the same services that are provided in Massachusetts and were covered when he was governor,” Carney said.
He called it “ironic that Mitt Romney is criticizing the president” for a policy that Carney described as identical to the one in place in Massachusetts.
Boehner said that if the administration fails to reverse the policy, then Congress will act. He said that in the coming days, the House Energy and Commerce Committee will move ahead on legislation.
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oceandove
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:38pmWell, Boehner finally speaks up. I have yet to hear his voice raised in objection to citizens being rounded up at a flip of a hat. No trial and no cause.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:45pmMargaret Sanger would have been very proud of Barack Obama lately. The founder of Planned Parenthood was a nasty person. She would have fit right in with the Obama administration. This is what she was all about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEYAbSoYxs Why is this not even discussed?
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:48pmJohn Boehner:
Report Post »All bark and NO bite
AvengerK
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:51pmmeanwhile the mealy mouthed and aptly named “Carney” sock puppet for Obama is telling us that they’re working on a compromise with the church. Let’s see..”well your holiness….how about just free condoms and we’ll just raise taxes to pay for the pills?.Do we have a deal?…Is your opinion still evolving?”.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:52pmObama is nothing but a CINO … His actions always give him away
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:01pmWhere was he?
Report Post »encinom
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:09pmBoehner has no power, he is a figure head in the house uable to control his own party.
Report Post »db321
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:12pmI hope the smell of Testosterone fills the air in the Congress and scares the hell out of the Senate and White Mosque.
We elected these people to stand up for us, and protect our Constitution – in return we promise to stand with them, turn off the Liberal State Run Media and get our reports based on their actions. It is time to Stand One and All!
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:26pmSure you’ll overturn it, Bonehead… as soon as you and your Turd finish the next round of golf and he gets you to roll over like the beotch you are and you forget all about it.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:33pmHouse Speaker John Boehner,
I agree with you that Congress needs to take a stand for individual religious rights and freedom in the United States. Frankly, it’s been a long time coming. I hope you do it. Seriously. Because if the utter FAILURE of Congress to do their job continues, and the preservation of our RIGHTS falls into the hands of the people to do it for ourselves… it will be ugly. Very ugly, before it gets better. I urge you to act decisively and quickly.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:37pmBoehner, dude, did you get a pair transplant?
Report Post »Fantastic Four
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:06pmFirst Johnie “waffle house” ***** needs to have a pair before he barks or like cain says “that Chihuaha wont hunt” That spineless jelly fish should have appointed SPECIAL prosecutors on all the SCROTUS’s misdeeds but that crybaby needs to change his diaper because it sure smells funky.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:35pmObama has hurt himself badly with this one..makes me happy
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:42pmJohn grow a pair and put the President in his place you are a equal power to the president as you cried for the Honor to be chosen leader you have a duty to that honor and put the foot down and say no more Mr President I will no longer stand for your destruction of this country !
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:49pmHey John How about getting us that keystone pipeline..JOBS and independence from foreign oil
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:51pmPresident Obama played this one just right AGAIN! The Teapublicon war on women’s rights continues.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 7:32pmBoehner
Shut up and do something.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 7:56pmTIFOSA: you have been programmed well by the democap Libs. Here is a “fact” about “reproduction rights”: for every one white child aborted, five black babies are also aborted. Also, Margaret Sanger’s intent for abortion and “birth control as a necessary agency in it’s solution” was for the depopulation of the black race….Margaret phrased it as “the ***** problem”.
Report Post »And before any other reader/blogger gets all upset about my post, here is the site so you can watch the video and you can see and hear it for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GEYAbSoYxs
Joe Conservative: thanks for providing the link, it was quite informative.
Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:10pmSeems that words of the english language are now being censored.
Report Post »My last post, the word replaced with **** (that was basically censored) was n-e-g-r-o (and how is that offensive?) and it was from a direct quote. Then again, political correctness is just destroying the country. The only thing political correctness has not done (yet) is have political unreliable individuals/groups on their knees waiting for bullet through the head and their bodies dumped into an unmarked mass-grave.
Anyone think I’m being extreme in my view? Ask the survivors of the Jewish holocaust or survivors of the old Soviet Union.
JediKnight
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:38pmYou mean like when he spoke up during Libya? Boehner isn’t going to do anything. The House might be able to pass a resolution condemning this move, but so what? What’s it really going to do? Even if they pass legislation blocking it, it’s DOA in the Senate. It‘ll never make it to the President’s desk.
As others have said, Boehner is all bark and no bite.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:05pmUnfortunately Speaker Boehner has not once had the backbone to actually stand up to Obama when all is said and done. Fired Speaker Pelosi has a bigger set under her skirt than Speaker Boehner.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:17pmSpeaker Boehner……you need to be standing up for our freedoms….not more rules and regulations…..stop all this and stop it now…….Republicans….what’s wrong with you people…can‘t you see what’s happening or are you in on it too? We voted for you’ll last November and we expect more from you……For God’s sake……stand up and fight for us…….The conservative women are doing more than you men are…Just remember you will have to answer to God for what you do and for what you don’t do………….I’m mad….I’m very mad!
Report Post »Trowerpower
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:03pmBoehner is a traitor,he is shutting down the fast and furious investigation and letting Holder and the Obummer admin off the hook..He is just as corrupt as them…
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:16pmSo they sit around on their butts and do nothing-actually voting in favor of additional clamp-downs and goon-squad legislation while getting up in arms about birth-control crap. What a bunch of clowns.
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:34pmStep Down, Boehner! You’re not fooling a soul. “We the People” are very clear on DOJ’s guilt on F&F. However, “You”, who are privy to much more info, still aren’t sure? What are you hiding?
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ozchambers
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:49pmyeah, Boehner sounds great when he chooses to take a stand against Obama, but why does he only seem to show up about once a quarter? Almost every day this administration is working some new angle to destroy our constitution.
Report Post »mutslie
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 8:49pmYeah I had to add comment’ to yours.
Report Post »I’m from Australia & live here‘ I said to my missus a couple of weeks ago ’I reckon they (Dems’) have something on that Boehnere bloke h’mmmm.. just a feeling I have about him he is a softcock for sure’.
In my country the oposition get stuck right into other party they seem like a mob’ of limpdicks here.
I feel sorry for you folk you dont have any real representation ‘up there against the ’hybred obama, Gees what a joke is he & the first negress‘ Chicago punkpair’.
Fantastic Four
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:20pmJonnie “waffle house” “cry me a river” Boneher absolutelty needs a one way ticket to kenya. Just because your an Elite‘ Progressive Career Politician doesn’t mean you wont be a “USEFUL IDIOT” kick rocks and leave America to REAL men
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:28pmMARGARET SANGER must be having a happy dance in her grave and Hillary ADMIRES HER???
OMG in 2012
Report Post »jamestoms
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:34pmWell here it is O breaking the constitution, the President, and the best they can say is we don’t like it? What cowards, jail the SOB and all the rest, traitors one and all, a FACT!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:32pmBoehner says the house has passed several bills to improve the economy and create jobs but he can’t get the senate to bring them to the senate floor but where is the outrage?Why is he not in front of the cameras on a daily basis telling this to the American people and explaining that the house is working hard to get America moving against a do nothing senate and President?He has remained silent all this time and let the house take a pounding and has allowed Obama to portray the republicans as a do nothing congress but speaks up now about birth control?That pill is a little too hard to swallow.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 9:23pmRight on!!!!
Report Post »Realist4U
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:29pmI stopped believing a word out of this stooge’s mout a long time ago. As always, he is merely posturing/
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:29pmI never would have thought contraception would be the tipping point … but … what ever works !!!!!
Report Post »BlackCrow
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:40pmThe tipping point is Freedom of Religion. This country was founded by those fleeing religious oppression and we earned our independence in a war fought with a government that was deaf to the pleading of it’s subjects.
Sound familiar? Like the headlines in the news?
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:00pmThis is the christian version of demanding sharia law of your own
Report Post »biblestudyspacecom
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:29pmBOEHNER and OBAMA represents the other face of the same coin. Does the Conservative Republican party offer an alternative to secular progressivism? The reality is the Conservative Republican Party is not an alternative to liberalism, but a partner.
OBAMA DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY
While conservatives argue with liberals over taxation and spending, the future of America is being determined by the OBAMA DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST PARTY. Where new generations of future leaders are indoctrinated in the secular evolutionary worldview. Humanism dominates our courts, our legislatures, our schools, our media, our political campaigns and our economy. Marriage and the family are in chaos. Christ’s name is censored from public life.
The New Conservative Christians Republican or AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
Report Post »The Gospel has been reduced to a five minutes prayer to be save, by Christian cult leaders who the secular media promotes. The Christian church is becoming irrelevant as a culture-shaping influence. So should Christians find hope in the new conservative Christians republican party. Because the Biblical worldview that once shaped American cultural, family and public morals is all but lost. Today the Conservative Christians Republican party is promoting the redefinition of marriage, homosexual lifestyle and the federalizing of education. Does the Conservative Christians Republican party offer a alternative to secular progressivism? The reality is the Conservative Christians Republic
TheObamanation
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:30pmNope … you are wrong
Report Post »garyM
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:52pmRomney is one of the main connections to that liberalism you referred to, that connection between the democratic party to the GOP! That we”ll argue and put on a show but we’ll keep the laws to protect all us in congress while we rape the taxpayer and get privy info for insider trading to make us millions to retire on in addition to those millions we get from our congressional retirement, even if we only serve one term. You think we’ll ever have enough congressman to vote for any laws to change that? I don’t!
Report Post »Ran Paul wouldn’t go for that. I haven‘t seen him even sponsor a bill along those lines and he has plenty of staff he could have written 100’s of bills by now. Don’t let Ran Paul BS you because you know who his Dad is, yea that old senile man who has the dope smokers campaigning for him!
BlackCrow
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:29pmAnd Dingy Harry will bottle it up and enable Osama Obama to further consolidate his dictatorial power.
The time to defend the Constitution from it’s domestic enemies is now and those enemies are clear!
Report Post »Lordchamp
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:26pmYou’re a liar Boehner. You are nothing but hot air and rhetoric.
You don’t have the backbone to stand up to a marshmallow much less lead anyone to fight a battle and win it. You are just an establishment shill so just shut up.
Report Post »Grannie4news
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:22pmAre any of the rest of you having trouble getting to this website. For two days have had to go through search engine to get it, but not directtly.
Report Post »tomloy
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:27pmYeah, same here.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:28pmYes I have, I thought it was just me and my service out where I live. Wonder what’s up?
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:02pmI’ve had to clear my temporary internet files to even load the main page.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:21pmGaryM to the Blaze…If you want pump Santorum’s win of three states I will!
Report Post »Oh if it had been Romney I’m sure there would have been at least 3 stories but Beck is not for Romney though, I forgot!
garyM
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:09pmIt took Billy Hallowell about 30 minutes to get a controversial laying on of hands story on the Blaze after I made my last comment about them having no Santorum story about his wins and claiming to be for Santorum, almost no acknowledgment since yesterday until the laying on of hands story! Oh they are so clever, they think!
Report Post »JamesR
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:16pmI don’t think republicans should offer to clean this mess up. Let the democrats who voted this crap into law get a shovel and start cleaning it up themselves. Eating a little crow – it’s long over due for the white house occupant. “Garbage in, garbage out” Obama and his gang should clean it up and to the satisfaction of the majority. A simple one year temporary restraint just won’t get it.
Report Post »Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:13pm~^~v~~^~~v~^~
Its not an attack on religion its an attack on the Constitution. BHO has made it clear as day he doesnt like the Constitution and will do everything possible to take it down piece by piece. He and his regime are hitting it from every angle if you are paying attention.
Right now its religion, not too long ago it was targeting everyone who uses social media as a potential threat and so on. Look at all the puzzle peices from the daily news headlines they fit they make the story that the Constitution is under attack from all directions. Low level with radicals to high levels Justice Ginsburg speaking in a manner only Obama would approve. What you are witnessing people is a tyranny. It wont surprise me if 20-30 years gfrom now if not longer people look back at this time and say “how didn’t they see this coming” The same way we all look back at 1930′s Germany!
WAKE UP America the clock is running down. Understand that those invoking the Constitution to gain your support and vote have NEVER lifted a finger to stop any of this. Those who invoke the Constitution to gain your support will only run their mouth NEVER taking action. Those same individuals never criticize this JOTUS either!
Report Post »Stop playing their game http://SavingtheRepublic.com TAPGW
kryptonite
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:09pm@Saving_the_Republic.com
Report Post »Its not an attack on religion its an attack on the Constitution. BHO has made it clear as day he doesnt like the Constitution and will do everything possible to take it down piece by piece… The same way we all look back at 1930′s Germany!
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Some people understand that Obama is not transforming America into “European socialism” (Romney, you err). However, most citizens who are awake place Obama on par with Hitler (wrong too), because liberals have shown us ad nauseam what the Nazis did to the Jews, but kept us in the dark about the greater evil done by the likes of Stalin, Mao, Castro, Kim Jong-il, Chavez, Putin (in the making) and other COMMUNIST dictators. As horrific as the (far less common) totalitarian right can be, left-wing totalitarians — commies, Islamists, anarchists, and supporting guerrillas/drug cartels — is even deadlier. Obama is a commie Muslim, and we are in deep ****. I fear he already has the state apparatus he needs to re-elect himself.
Baikonur
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:11pmForget it, orange man! You can cry all you want to, but Women’s health and reproductive rights are not going away, ever!
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:18pmDo you get it that this has nothing to do with contraception but is another attempt at destroying our liberties? Or are you just an idiot?
Report Post »True American66
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:24pmIt seems to have a problem with reading comprehension……This is a religious freedom issue not a woman’s right s issue….read it again and try to understand the issue this time, ok?
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:00pmTroll
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:10pmYep….Just when Obama may end up looking like the bad guy along comes Boehner to once again play his role of a bumbling fool.
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:12amBoehner shakes his fist and makes speeches almost as good as Obumbler, but he doesn’t have the cajones to do anything.
If he had the cajones, he would be before the people railing against Haery Reed and his obstructionist policies Tell the voters what is really going on, try to help elect a republican senate.
He talks a good game but has yet to actually do anything – as we say down here, he’s all hat and no cattle”.
OMG
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:09pmI wonder how many in Congress have yet to even read the whole Obamacare package. They have had enough time now but I would wager few if any have.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:20pmNone of them have read any of the bills. They all have a bank of lawyers that supply them with a cliff notes version.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:01pmTruth is, Obamacare was written in code. You can’t just read it; you have to decipher it and make educated guesses about the reach of obscure clauses. That unsavory task does require special training, and I dare say, a considerable amount of inside info.
Report Post »goahead.makemyday
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:08pmWhere’s the Supreme Court? Oh wait they have been told by the people that put them there not to act! When I see things like this it riles me up.
Report Post »The Eleventh Doctor
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:05pmAll talk from Boehner. Let’s see him actually do something, because now, I don’t buy it.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:04pmMy question is…Where the hell has boehner been at every point during the past 3 years that obama has overstepped his constitutional powers?…and will he back down with a whimper after making his promise to act?
Report Post »Boehner should be using the floor every day of the week to attack the tyranical obama.
Is he growing a spine? or will he “come to his senses” and crawl back into his hole?
Let‘s hope this week has become a true turning point for the reclaimation of our constitutional rights and that boehner’s republicans start fighting for us now.
hauschild
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:14pmHangin‘ around in the Marxist’s back pocket.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:16pmAbout a year ago I came to the conclusion that Boehner is working with this administration to help get Obama reelected.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:16pm@Hauschild:
Report Post »Sadly, your answer is probably the best one available…
Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:03pmStrictly speaking, this quarrel is not between Catholics and the administration. It is between the administration and the Catholic hierarchy, which fears loss of authority; and Republicans, who want to gin it up as a political issue. Most Catholics, at least in the US, happily use birth control and don’t mind in the least if it is paid for by employer-provided insurance, whether the employer is the Church or a private firm.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:13pmBut, the real issue (to anybody with a clue) is a loss of liberty.
Don’t you not see this??? Regardless of who fears losing power, or who is using this for political gain, the individual is ultimately the loser in the long run.
Screw your God#$%#@ healthcare!!! Why won’t more people say this?
Every thing one accepts from the government is a piece of themselves they’ve lost forever.
Report Post »thriceconcussed
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:20pmDrako, shove your conspiracy theory, it’s against Catholic beliefs. Get off the crazy train.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:26pmI see your point. Historically speaking, of course, the Catholic Church has no more been a friend to individual liberty than the government. I think there will eventually be some sort of compromise over this issue: most likely, employees of Catholic institutions who want insurance covering contraception will be able to get it, government subsidized if necessary, through some sort of third party, so the Church is technically in the clear. That will satisfy the administration, the Church hierarchy, and the people being covered. It will not, of course, satisfy the Republicans, who will gnaw at it like a dog with a bone until November, long after most of us have lost interest.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:50pmI don‘t think it’s a conspiracy theory at all. I think both Democrats and Republicans realized that this question might arise, and that the timing of it was determined by Democrats wanting to make it “yesterday’s news” as soon as possible, and Republicans of all stripes hoping to use it to unify a party that looks like it could use some unifying, whether Romney wins sooner or later or not at all. As for the protests from the Catholic clergy, who knows? The Founding Fathers thought the Catholic Church WAS a conspiracy. The laity of course can still do what they want, which is what sweet liberty is all about.
Report Post »suncat
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:58pmA voice of reason! My thoughts exactly!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:02pmWell Boehner, the House may act but, are there enough scared Democrat Senators for it to go anywhere? I hope so.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:02pmDo you feel lucky, punk?
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 3:58pmObama should call CryBaby’s bluff – he’d probably “cave” like usual.
How have we been “blessed” with such worthless leaders on our side that past 20 years??? My goodness!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:54pmLeftists have the perception that Obama has caved on almost everything from Guantanamo to health care to Wall Street. Do you find this odd?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:05pmHauschild, Boehner can talk tough because he knows anything he does won’t make it through the Senate anyway.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 6:14pm@Lloyd Drako
Report Post »Leftists have the perception that Obama has caved on almost everything from Guantanamo to health care to Wall Street. Do you find this odd?
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I find it odd that you haven’t figured it out. Not all lefties are equal. The old school revolutionaries and the anarchists are visibly upset, the neo-commies are entirely satisfied, and the useful idiots are clueless.
CatB
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 3:58pmRepeal the whole D thing .. that is what the PEOPLE WANT!
OMG 2012!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 4:06pmCATB……..Exactly. Why pick and choose which parts to fight over when the whole darned thing needs to be trashcanned.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 3:56pmBoehnere needs to clearly understand Obama will not back down or change his stance; in the end he will go around Congress yet again and find another way to cram this down the throat of the US citizens. Obama needs the chaos that is coming so he can collapse the nation completely into his socialist/communist nightmare.
Hopefully this will show more and more people the final moments of the game are at hand, and how much of a radical extremist Obama and Reid plus their administration truly is.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 8, 2012 at 5:04pmOf course Obama will back down or change his stance. What on earth makes you think he wants chaos and violence? I think he wants two terms, the second of which will see continued slow economic recovery and an attempt on his part to become some sort of world statesman, probably not very successfully. Then he’ll gracefully yield to his successor, probably a Republican, and go off to promote good causes and write his memoirs. Why is this scenario not just as liiely as Armageddon?
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:06amHate to say I told ya so, but I told ya so. Obama has cleverly changed his stance, and it didn’t take long! All women will now have insurance covering birth control, without compromising freedom of religion. The Catholic hierarchy will harrumph a little, but it’s a compromise that preserves freedom of religion. If anyone wins politically, it’s the Democrats, for appearing reasonable. Like many others here, you way overestimate Obama’s threat to freedom and the Constitution, while underestimating, or misunderstanding, his real political cleverness. You think he wants chaos so he can impose dictatorship. What he really wants is a second term, and, hopefully, real economic recovery. He is well on his way to getting both.
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