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Limbaugh on So-Called HHS ‘Accommodation’: There‘s no ’Compromise,‘ It’s all BS!

Earlier today, The Blaze’s Billy Hallowell reported the following:

This afternoon, President Obama announced the “accommodation” his administration plans to offer church-affiliated groups. Speaking from the White House, he explained that, under the new plan, universities and institutions connected with faiths that oppose contraception and associated services will not have to directly offer them.

Obama said that the new-and-improved birth control, sterilization and abortion-inducing drug policy will protect religious liberties, while assuring women’s access to contraception reports the AP.

And although major media outlets were calling the president’s decision a “cave,” some critics believe that he’s simply applying the unconstitutional mandate to a different entity, namely, insurance companies.

“Everybody‘s reporting that Obama’s caving on this mandate that the Catholic services provide abortion and all. There’s not a cave here!” conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday afternoon.

“There may be an accommodation, but there’s no big cave-in here. It’s still the government mandating this stuff happen. They’re just changing the provider. It’s not done by the church. He says he gave them a way out of it by mandating the insurance companies do it, but that’s not the point here.”

He continued:

So everywhere I’m reading that Obama is caving on the mandate in Obamacare that Catholic churches — well, not churches, but the schools and hospitals are mandated to provide contraceptives and abortion-related services that they religiously disagree with. “What‘s happened here is that Obama’s caved! He has seen, he has heard, and now he’s gonna shift that burden to the insurance companies!”
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My point here is, ladies and gentlemen, we are losing freedom and liberty inch by inch. It’s not being taken — well, in some cases it is, but in most cases it’s not being taken from us in giant grabs. It‘s little by little by little such that people don’t even see it. It doesn’t even register.

Limbaugh then addressed an AP report that claimed religious employers would not have to cover birth control for their employees.

“The administration instead will demand that insurance companies will be the ones directly responsible for providing free contraception,” the AP reported.

Limbaugh was beside himself.

“And we’re supposed to applaud this? We’re supposed to think that we have emerged with a big victory here? Obama can mandate that we buy insurance, and now Obama can mandate what insurance companies must offer — and after mandating what insurance companies must offer, then Obama can mandate what insurance companies can charge for it?” Limbaugh asked.

So what was his take away from this supposed “cave”?

“Freedom doesn’t mean anything to this guy! Freedom doesn’t mean anything to this regime or this administration. To me, this is breathtaking. This is an incredible sight to behold here,” Limbaugh said. “Since when does a president have the power to threaten to issue a rule gutting religious liberty? That’s the first thing.”

Limbaugh then went on to explain that he believes all of this “kerfuffle” between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration has been by design.

“And, by the way, I don’t think any of this a mistake. I don’t think this religious kerfuffle is something that they overreached on,” Limbaugh explained. “I think roiling this country and distracting people, setting up these extreme things like this and then walking them back to create the illusion, ‘Okay, you know what? We’re not gonna take your freedom,’ it’s all BS, folks.”

Hear Limbaugh explain the so-called “compromise” via Daily Rushbo:

“So here we have again from the top,” Limbaugh continued, “Obama’s gonna offer a compromise proposal said to be respectful of religious concerns. He started this. He started it by demanding that Catholic organizations provide birth control and other abortion-related services.”

“That’s unconstitutional. He cannot do it. There is an appropriate uproar. The regime says, ‘Okay, we‘ll walk it back and then we’ll make the insurance companies do it.’ He’s still getting everything he wants! He’s getting mandated federal funding of abortion services — and, in the process, trampling all over the Constitution. The right to religious liberty in this context is unequivocal in our country. It’s in the Constitution!”

Read the full transcript of Limbaugh’s opening monologue here.

Comments (134)

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  • Patoweem
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:35pm

    I’ve been saying from day one that this is not a compromise, but a stall tactic. ObamaCare gives the government the POWER (unconstitutional power mind you) to put a rule like this and many others in place. This was a trial balloon and with it being a presidential election year, he is acting like he’s listening and “cares”. How can we as a people be so stupid not to see that getting an exemption or an “alternate” type of mandate doesn’t change the fact that it is an unconstitutional mandate and robs us of more of our freedoms?

    Ten years or less from now, this rule will be put back into place and the government will tell the religious groups to shut up or drop coverage all together. By then, unless ObamaCare is repealed, the exchanges/government run healthcare will be fully implimented and ready for an influx of millions of people. If the religious employers stand on principle and quit offering insurance, that automatically puts all of those people into the exchanges and onto the government healthcare roles. That is the end game here folks. They are setting the private insurance market up to fail and will paint religious groups into a corner and make them either stand on principal and not offer insurance or leave their religous beliefs at the door and comply with the government mandates. Yes folks, this IS HAPPENING in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! Wake the $#%^& UP!!!
    REPEAL ObamaCare!!!!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:03am

      my reply to Obama is “NUTS” that is strictly negative

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:36am

      Making anyone do anything is slavery. pure and simple.

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    • jimkash
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 3:22am

      If I remember correctly during the healthcare debate in early 2010 congressman Bart Stupak from Michigan was the last holdout to sign onto Obamacare. The only reason he signed on was because he was given a executive order by Obama himself. Congressman Stupak’s only stipulation for signing on was that although abortions are legal in all fifty states, we the taxpayers should not pay for them. Now as Obama sets up the left hand battle with the church and abortion, the right hand battle is set to get taxpayers to pay for abortions. So he comes out today and walks back his attack on the church but insists that taxpayers pay for abortions . The church is happy to avoid persecution and applauds when Obama turns his gun sites to the taxpayers. Whatever happened to the Stupak agreement?  We been had by this player yet again.

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    • thegrassroots
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 6:08am

      @patoweem

      Very Well Said!

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    • old white guy
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:05am

      when are the sheep going to say no????

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    • 100 Million Patriots Standing
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:19am

      Any average run of the mill spouse abuser does the same tactic; disrespect of boundaries – trample one boundary (rule, law, personal preference,) and if nothing happens you know how far you can go.

      as one boundary line is stepped on, disregarded, and ignored you go even further to the next. Eventually, boundary erosion not only serves to remove restrictions on the abusers behavior, it also re-enforces THEIR authority and gives the illusion of their ALL POWERFUL status.

      The victim grows weaker to stand against him while the abuser grows stronger.
      You cannot negotiate with an abuser as they filter everything thru the lens of manipulation for an ultimate win. They cannot be trusted, as they are not sincere nor empathetic.

      the only solution….GET THEM OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!!!!

      and all of their supporters too.

      It’s not enough to just cast your ballot to vote Obama and crew out in 2012….
      You MUST find others (and lots of them) to also help you vote them out.

      the superficial charm, the gifts, the promises, the pleading, must all be ignored and seen for what it is….our Constitution has been violated enough…We are standing, more of us everyday…we are saying….NO MORE LIES, NO MORE DECEIT, NO MORE ABUSE, NO MORE LIVING IN FEAR, NO MORE LOSS OF LIBERTY.

      our country has had enough and we are here to protect her,

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:36am

      You got that right…repeal OC ASAP!!!

      My bloody monthly HC rates and co-pays are sucking the life out me and my wife…and they no longer do any sort of surgery if you are over 60.

      Group Heath Coop, the one Obama pimped as the sort of HC system he is proposing.

      We fondly call it Group Death…and that was coined in the 80′s.

      They are the cheapest at about 8 to 12K a year…

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:12am

      Perhaps if there are more controversial medical insurance issues we will move piecemeal to what needs to come to america-single payer socialized medicine.perhaps this latest battle to implement sharia law in america [of the catholic kind] is a start.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:19am

      I agree with Rush and everyday Obama remains in office is just another opportunity he has to destroy our Constitution.

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    • dogma
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Think back to the frist state of the union speach. Who was it who said He’s lying .He never Quit

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    • Freedom from liberals
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:04pm

      Patoweem: Excellent post, you took the words right out of my mouth.They have bee chipping away at our freedoms for quite some time now. Woodrow Wilson and the progressive income tax and FDR New Deal were a bad start of big government. Then it went dormant for awhile until we got got LBJ and the Great Society, code word Socialism. Since then, other than Reagan, they all take a piece of our freedom away. And now we have the Dick Tater, the worst and by far the worst President we have ever had.
      Jimkash: I’ve been thinking about Stupak for quite some time now and have come to the conclusion that he resigned after he realized he had been suckered into the vote by this lying POS.
      SAMIAMtwo: LOL, Group Death is a term I will be using in the future. Great Line. Palin was right when she talked about death panels. When you have a DC buerocrat deciding what care you will receive it’s over folks. 30% of doctors have threatened to quit if Obummer Care is implemented and combine that with Rahm Emanuel’s brothers Useful Life Curve and you have a recioe for disaster. Only the rich will survive because they can afford the care.

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    • Hollywood
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:46pm

      In 10 years? I think NOT. It will be re-instituted within months, IF he gets a second therm. He will not have to be concerned about re-election,and do as he pleases. Of course he could try to run for a 3rd,4th term. The LW prohibits this,but that is of no concern to this megalomaniac! He’ll just pull a Chavez!

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    • hypnos
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:21pm

      Rose Ellen you have ass backwards as usual FOOL

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    • BenFrank1791
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 5:35pm

      “Ten years or less from now, this rule will be put back into place and the government will tell the religious groups to shut up or drop coverage all together….”

      My friend I think there is hope….I believe that Obama has only 4 more months of any real power.

      The Supreme Court in June will come down with a 5-4 decision. Then it is all over for Obama. Once he loses his big Health Care program, it will make this newest attack on american freedoms irrelevant.
      I think he knows that after June its all over for him, and so is trying to go down as a hero for the godless loony left. Next year it s book tour time, and god like awe for him on college campuses.

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    • barnsy
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 2:46am

      Its time for an “American Spring” ….Overthrow the Marxist tyrants!

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    • sixdogman
      Posted on February 12, 2012 at 6:22am

      can’t people buy their own rubbers or see their personnel doctor for birth control? what exactly is Obama doing here? there has too be something he’s coming up with later. keep watching and listening America. Watch GBTV.com to find what Obama is up to. also listen to Rush and Hannity and Glenn and then we’ll hear the truth, not the media spin.

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  • MrMagoo
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:13pm

    Its weird.We give lawyers/politicians the power,and then complain afterwards.Waaa,waaaaa like little cry babies.Well maybe we shouldn’t be so childish or PC the next time.Obama was a loser from the get go,in a free country like the USA.
    Is it We The People or We The PC Sheep?

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:22pm

      we need a new president and term limits flat tax and git rid of epa

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    • MS Patriot
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:52pm

      That would correct about 80% of our problems.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 1:43am

      income tax is immoral, unjust and unconstitutional. it IS economic slavery, it IS saying that you OWN someone else time that they traded. which techincally TRADE = NO INCOME.
      if you TRADE 1 hour of work for 10 eggs, how many eggs do you have to give the government?

      No one has a right to anyone elses person or property. end of story.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:37am

      Smaller Gov’t is the answer…but not a smaller DoD or Border Patrol. We need to get back to basics.

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  • The Third Archon
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:04pm

    Rush is right–Obama is neither accommodating nor caving. To do either of those things would presume that the opposition had some compelling BASES upon which to stand their rights claims, but here that is not the case. No one’s liberty is being violated, because no one HAD (or HAS) a legitimate right to to use their power as EMPLOYERS, not individuals, to coerce EMPLOYEES choices. Employers are legally OBLIGATED to provide the things a worker’s contract stipulates in exchange for their labor–we DON’T, nor should we, give them the right to, after the fact, decide they WON‘T give them those benefits simply because they don’t like the person receiving them or that persons’ choices of how they dispose of those benefits (presuming their activity is legal–if it’s ILLEGAL, that’s an entirely separate issue with laws that deal with it)–I’m sorry, but that was a decision you ought to have made BEFORE hiring them. Now that they’ve provided you with a service, you are OBLIGATED to fulfill your end of the contract.

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:36am

      This is rather an irony then, isn’t it? Obama isn’t doing his job. And that contract is pretty specific.

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  • needmoinfo
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:53pm

    So universities and institutions associated with faiths will not have to directly distribute birth control. You can bet he will come up with a way for them to distribute birth control indirectly. We will have to once again have to try and deflect another assault on our American freedoms. He begged for our votes then turned on us like a snake.

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  • needmoinfo
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:47pm

    Only took a minute to find one. Fidelis Care, N.Y. State Catholic Health Plan. How many others are there? I’d like to see him explain how a Catholic Insurance Plan can be forced to provide contraception. Let’s ask him.
    Obamacare will fail like most of the early HMOs. Not enough money. That tax cut? That means those people are not paying into their SS. Obviously our younger citizens are going to face their golden age with no SS, no healthcare, no decent jobs and not enough years left to get out of the hole or save for their old age. Obama finally transparent. He is bleeding us dry to make his marxist dreams come true. In the last 3 years are we better off? He takes more than he gives. We got suckered.

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:01pm

      The rush man is as usual correct. The issue out here is mandating suicide under the new Obama care. On top of that that fresh grown pot is going to have to be provided under the new Obama care and current Medicare. What is amazing is the NLRB is currently having discussions out here for having public employees to have reasonable accomidation to smoke pot on the job when prescribed.

      I hate to say this current crop of republican establishment idiots have already neutered the tea party congress people. Do you think these goobers know what happened to Athens? When we are all shoulder to shoulder in the rice fields, do ya think they’ will get it?

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  • CLS
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:42pm

    @jzs .. who wrote:
    “Rush has a high school degree. That in itself should impress the average Republican. And he’s an entertainer, a very rich one. Given his wealth, every American should respect him, although for the life of me I can’t understand why this website posted an outdated 20 year old photo of the more skinny Rush…”
    Rush Limbaugh’s show has been the number one commercial talk show since at least 1991 when record keeping began. Fat, thin, divorced, taking pain pills and devoid of fancy credentials .. he has something that is sorely lacking almost everywhere else; truth, honesty, wisdom and humility.
    These are earned attributes .. not something one can attain through higher learning.

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    • Cubzilla
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:01pm

      Uh…Bite me. He is a picture of the American Dream where any one…ANYONE…can succeed regardles of standing, racem creed, or color.

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    • needmoinfo
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:01pm

      Some people are born intelligent. Some are self educated. Some learn from experience. Then there are the educated idiots. Cold, arrogant, narcissistic and entitled.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:07pm

      “Uh…Bite me. He is a picture of the American Dream where any one…ANYONE…can succeed regardles of standing, racem creed, or color.”
      Or, apparently, regardless of intellect, usefulness, or ability as well.

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    • MS Patriot
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:59pm

      That’s not true Cubzilla, if it were true why is King Hussein attempting to change our country? Oh, that”s right, the elitist from Harvard and Yale that have drug our country into the gutter can’t stand the fact you can become a millionaire without going through the brain washing of the progressive/socialist schools of higher education.
      Unless you are a member of the academia you are not worthy of wealth, to decide to have children or whether or not to wear your seat belt. It is government’s job, the elitist in government that is, to tell you how to live your life. Go to the streets in protest now, and become King Hussein’s first terrorist to be sent of to fema camps.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:59am

      The Third Archon – If he was useless, he would be off the air, LOL.

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  • 83plus
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:34pm

    I agree with Rush, there is no compromise it’s the same as before.

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    • rose-ellen
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 10:15am

      Perhaps if more copntroversial medical insurance issues come up this will bring us piecemeal to what we really need in america-single payer socialized medicine.Perhaps this battle for sharia law to be recognized [of the catholic kind] is the start.

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  • SCARY313568
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:21pm

    Rush is absolutely correct. This is how ignorant and stupid the Obummer administration views the sheeple. Wake up mullets……..

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    • bastone
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:11pm

      so thats why rush followers call themselves ditto heads? talk about sheep.

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  • poetopoet
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:21pm

    This is fact not science fiction:

    Just because, faith based institutions are temporally exempt from ObamaCares contraception pill ploy; they still must perform late term abortions, faith or good conscious do not matter. Also they will be forced to give you the DEATH PILL or NEEDLE YOU TO DEATH, before you cash in your first SSI check, under ObamaCare.

    When animals and illegal aliens have more protection and rights, for free, than you have, are you laughing? ObamaCare and its Secret Select=SS Death Panels=D.Pss, for Displaced Persons=Old Fogies and you, MA & PA? These are still mandates on the books for all under ObamaCare! The dumbing down of America worked and has unionized benefits, although temporally backing up the Obama Bus Line with Pelosi and Reid directing. Think of what they will do if re-elected in November 2012?

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  • needmoinfo
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:08pm

    Does anyone know if there are any insurance companies owned by religious organizations? Aren’t most births unplanned? He is too late anyway. His birth is proof of that.

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  • joanct
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:59pm

    Obama’s big compromise is just a game. No, the Church is not directly offering these services. However the insurance companies will have to raise rates to cover the added expense, or they will refuse to cover religious institutions. Then what….mandatory Obama Care?

    I am praying that the Church will not be willing to play this kind of game.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:10pm

      as a Catholic my reply to Obama is nuts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LXCnsBo8Vs

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    • Marci
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:16pm

      It in fact, is all just a dog and pony show, Rush is right, the dictator is still saying who has to do what while shredding the constititution a little more. If this man has his way, we will collapse so that he can put his new system in place. If we have four more years of him, we can kiss this country goodbye.

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    • 2ndrevolution
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:17am

      Catholics voted for this fool. Catholics have supported the party of abortion for decades.

      A Christian, a follower of Christ, would never support the killing of babies. Apparently there are millions of catholics who aren’t Christians.

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    • Cornflake
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 8:30am

      Yes, mandatory Obamacare! This was just a way to a one payer system anyway. They think we are fools! The camel has it‘s head in the tent now and there’s no stopping them from treading on every other choice that should be ours! Wait, till people find out that birth control is covered, but not maturnity care! They are following Margaret Sanger’s model of ceasing child care facilities, and other idea’s she had to the tee. Margaret Sanger is being celebrated NOW in the Smithsonian Inst. Unbelieveable! If anyone wishes that she not be, please contact them and let them know. I personally think it’s a disgrace. But, I will bet many have not heard her speak in her own words. Chilling! She’s thinks it stupid that people who are elite just keep replacing themselves generation after generation, without adding anything to society.

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  • TexasKnight
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:58pm

    I have a compromise Obama style.
    I will start beating liberals with a baseball bat.
    Too rough? OK, I will compromise and only use a billy club.
    See overton window for details.

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    • bastone
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:13pm

      your very brave while hiding in the internet

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  • inferno
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:48pm

    If you look closly eveything Obama does involves income redistribution. His latest edict mandates insurance companies provide birth control. Anyone but the leftist base, is aware that those who pay for health insurance, will be forced to pay with increases in premium. This does too things. Those who can afford pay will do so,. Those who would rather spend their earnings on other things, will tend to support Obamacare, since they believe it is free. This is a win win for Obama, and a losing proposition for those who work to pay for those who don’t, in a number of cases, don’t want to work at all, since everything is “free.”

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:54pm

      Obama just asked the Pope; “vas is nuts?” Nuts is that affirmative or negative? Nuts is negative

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  • thinkingoutloud
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Government says ok to Sharia compliant banks but not Christian compliant medical insurance companies.

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  • cemerius
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:45pm

    If you get a chance really listen to Obama when he “talks” about the compromise…..sounds like a father scolding a child unfortunately the “father figure” is a narcissitic President of the United States and the “child” is The Catholic/Christain church!!!! I will count to 10 (1 year exemption) and then you will do what I tell you!!! This is BEYOND the subject this is the CLEAREST violation of the US Constitution!!! How many “laws” are being challenged in the US Supreme Court that this man-child and his liberal demons have SHOVED down our throats? WAKE UP!!!

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:06pm

      Barack Hussein Obama, anything American about this man, who was catapulted into the Presidency by sinister dark forces, cheating, lying and conniving to propel “the one” into power? Not hardly! This “dark one” has been regularly trampling upon the Constitution at each whim and fancy of his dastardly policies and ill conceived agenda.

      From his invasion into Constitutionally protected religious liberties and personal freedoms through usurpation of unconstitutional mandates requiring American citizens to purchase health insurance to appointment of “czars” who are wholly beyond and checks and balance provisions of the legislative and judicial branches of our government and further intrusion into private industry by our governments purchase of car companies, e.g., Government Motors, and then make the policies to tell them what they can and can not do. The list goes on and on and on, while our Congressional useful idiots stand idly by as they lack both balls and backbone to challenge this Imposter-in-Chief.

      This freak of nature, Barack Hussein Obama, like the EverReady Bunny, continues to corrupt our entire political, governmental and societal systems, wrecking havoc wherever his robotic-ally directed frame wanders over the American landscape, perverting our system of government and destroying everything about our country and freedoms we’ve learned to cherish and enjoy.

      This nemesis has absolutely got to be stopped. Not just hindered, but stopped!

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    • MCDAVE
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 7:08pm

      @CARBONYES …That about sum it up..You should be writing copy for the republicans,They need you

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:35pm

    The left wing in this country wants us conservatives to compromise our values in this country.

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    • CatB
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:57pm

      Rush is right — Obama Administration = TYRANNY!

      November 2012 .. LIBERTY!!! OMG Obama MUST GO 2012!

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  • Komponist-ZAH
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:13pm

    “Obama said that the new-and-improved birth control, sterilization and abortion-inducing drug policy will protect religious liberties, while assuring women’s access to contraception”

    Is there a big problem with women not having “access” to birth control, etc.? I mean, it’s being made and sold, and doctors are writing prescriptions for it when necessary, right? So what’s with this “assuring women’s access to contraception”?

    And another thought: what about men’s access? Gender equality and all that.

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:40pm

      My brothers and sisters; I bring good news. I am a sheep among wolves . This is not political, it is bibical. We all have a choice, choose God , or choose against God. This is fulfillment of the scriptures.

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    • jzs
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Rush has a high school degree. That in itself should impress the average Republican. And he’s an entertainer, a very rich one. Given his wealth, every American should respect him, although for the life of me I can’t understand why this website posted an outdated 20 year old photo of the more skinny Rush, while he was addicted to prescription drugs and doctor shopping and getting married five times. Why not post a photo of him from last year, with all the flab, the jowls bouncing to the primal chant of “Rush, Rush, Rush”?

      Like Gingrich, he’s the example of Republican family values: drug addiction and too many marriage to count. But he is rich.

      American women aren’t stupid. Catholic women, almost all of whom use birth control, least of all. I imagine they’re sick of old, rich, white males telling them that if they are going to have to ay $1000 a year for birth control so their religious freedoms aren’t violated. Nobody is buying that, especially women.

      But, Republicans, go for it! Go for the religious angle on birth control, and then go explain to Americans how much you love “small government” except where it comes to women’s bodies. That’s a winning position, at least for Democrats.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:25pm

      JZS—

      You sound more bitter than usual today.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:58pm

      @ JZS – & the point is….??? You have “proved” what? Are you hanging out with encinomoron????

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:01pm

      and by the way – my high school diploma (as is Rush’s) carries a lot more weight than even an MBA in todays educational vaccuum.

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:15pm

      Didn’t @Jzs get his antidepressants when he was at the free clinic with his girl friend who was there with his second kid even though they have not been married to get check up because of the scabies he was exposed to at the occupy rally they stopped at on the way home from the welfare office to get proof for their HUD voucher that he is not providing direct housing support because he is collecting disability because he has glass imbedded in his foot from stepping on his crack pipe.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:24pm

      @KAYDEEBEAU
      I find your MBA comparison an interesting choice–didn’t go for the B.A. or J.D.? I‘m surprised you aren’t lionizing MBA holders–this IS the Blaze, right?

      The place were rich people can do no wrong?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:03am

      JZS

      4 words.
      Bill
      Clinton
      John Edwards

      Actually I could go on, and on, and on (Ted Kennedy) and on, and on.
      But why bother.

      You say American women are not stupid? I would say that somewhere around 50% of them are stupid, along with about 50% of men.

      Care to guess which half.
      If “LEFT ” to your own devices, I bet you can figure it out.

      And you can level with us JZS, it’s OK. There is no need to envy Rush’s diploma. You can always study up and try for the GED.

      Are you having seances and actually trying to channel Alinsky?

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 12:09am

      @JZS

      So you believe it’s governments job to provide all women with FREE birth control, and to make sure they maintain the right to legally dispose of their children that managed to sneak past the free birth control?

      Rhetorical question JZS

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 2:21am

      Hey JZS

      You list all these items about Rush.

      High School Grad
      Entertainer
      Very rich
      Once addicted to Oxy
      Doctor shopping due to addiction
      Multiple marriages

      First, those characteristics describe just about every Hollywood lefty celeb that the lemmings of your party idolize.

      Second, none of them seem to have any effect on his ability to shred your credibility and just generally get under your skin and tweak your sensibilities on a daily basis for over 20 years and counting.

      Its no wonder he bugs you though. I know how I would feel if Alec Baldwin had enough talent to be able to host a hugely popular radio show for 15 hours a week that effectively picked apart and mocked every political ideal that I held.

      It would pi$$ me off to no end, and I would probably end up venting and ranting on an internet forum every day.

      Oh well, if your lucky, maybe someday DR. Maddow will become as successful as Rush and you can come back here and say……..nyea nyea nyea nyea nyea.

      But I won’t hold my breath. And you shouldn’t either.

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    • hypnos
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:14am

      @jzs again instead of listening to the reality of the situation of again taking an end run around the constitution. You need ridicule and redirect the conversation. If do not have a logical rebuttal to this argument please refrain from you childish comments.

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    • hypnos
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 9:22am

      @jzs by the way the pill cost between 15-50 per month planned parenthood site. Obviously it‘s not the only thing you can’t get right.

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    • jzs
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 4:55pm

      Fellas, come on. Save me your false outrage. 28 states already require insurance companies that provide coverage of prescription drugs to also cover birth control. Why the uproar now? Simple, it’s a false issue raised for political reasons.

      Sorry for the gratuitous slam of Rush and his weight. I know how upsetting that must be to you. I’m ashamed at my immaturity. But still, you have to admit he’s a big guy. He’s got his own area code for goodness sake. His baby photos were taken from a satellite. He had to be baptized at Sea World. He never wears yellow because people start yelling “Taxi!” when he walks down the street. When he flies, the TSA has to bring people in on overtime to pat him down. He might have even been bigger but his mom was on birth control when he was conceived (I made those last two up, maybe I have a career in comedy!).

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  • thetreyman
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:11pm

    if the bourgeoisie would only do as the chairman says then the proletariat can rise and we would all be equal. we must turn over our independence to the State because we do things that are not good for the well being of others. i am calling for local polit bureaus to oversee things to make sure everyone works together to achieve our social ends.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:22pm

      (Heavy Russian accent:)
      Da, comrade, is time for revolution of proletarian masses!

      /sarcasm

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  • Collbuzz
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:11pm

    As per usual, Rush is 1000% right

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  • JimmyP
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:09pm

    WAIT, WAIT WAIT!

    THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

    OBAMA CARES!

    wE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE A BLACK HALF MAN WHO CAN STAND UP TO HIS OWN ADMINISTRATION AND BACK DOWN TO MEET THE NEEDLESS CONCERNS OF THOSE UNGLY CATHOLICS. WOW! (sarcasm font used)

    So I get it,not having the price of abortions lavered into monthly premiums for devout Catholic and other faiths BUT forcing the insurance companies to lower their shockholder’s return by not allowing them to charge for a “service” (e.g., killing babies) they MUST provide makes perfect sense. If you live in Bizzaro World that is. So you mean that a religous entity that believes killing unborn children will pay higher premiums that one that has the moral substance to take a stand against slaughtering (opps, I meant sucking out the linbs, torso, heart, and brain) a live child? Can‘t wait to see who get’s to make those decisions.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:09pm

    The Liberals are running out of time … tick tock tick tock … they usually cause a problem then later ride in on their white horse to rescue us … now they’re trying this strategy in a matter of days apart … It’s fascinating watching them crumble.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:50pm

    King Obama speaks I’ll give you an “accommodation”,every time I see this Marxist POS on TV which is every ten minutes,a common trait of dictators I have the same reaction,dry heaves.Patriots we don’t have a president in the oval office,we have a vile hard core Marxist who governs like his friend Hugo Chavez.

    The arrogance that exudes from the former community agitator is stunning and this POS can’t be fired fast enough.

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  • IMPEACHBHO
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:47pm

    We haven’t forgotten about FREEDOM.
    http://youtu.be/7kqVZUCRth0?t=18m37s

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  • Micmac
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:47pm

    Even if it is pushed onto the insurance companies, the insurance companies would just add the costs across the board and the church would still be paying for it, albeit at a lower rate. Smoke and mirrors…govt telling the church what to do..totally illegal…the church will win this one…or throw out the 1st amendment.

    Can someone please explain to me how NDAA is legal?

    NoBama 2012

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:48pm

      Most importantly, BHO does NOT have the authority to tell the insurance companies this either…and once again, the constitution means NOTHING to BHO.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 9:39pm

      IT is not about the money!!!!! It is the priciple. The Governement who get its power from us cannot force upon us anything. We do not get our power or our rights from the government, the government get its power from US – I refuse to allow the government to put a lien on my God given un-a-lien-ble rights -and it does make a huge difference in the understanding of the word – when you understand it as a lien

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  • John 1776
    Posted on February 10, 2012 at 8:43pm

    It’s like going into a diner and the waitress serves you a burnt piece of toast. You say, “hey, this toast is a little well done….” and the waitress flips the piece of toast over and says, “There you go!”

    It’s the same piece of toast! Just like it’s the same rule it was before, all they did is change who paid for it. (Namely, everyone, because the insurance company can’t print money to cover the loss.)

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 10:09pm

      great analogy

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    • JohnofOregon
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 11:05pm

      ITs like when the neighbor thinks you should thank him for his dog fertilizing your yard.

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    • Mtroom
      Posted on February 11, 2012 at 11:21am

      No matter how they word this, it’s all the same…The thing that gets me is, while your watching the waitress turn your toast over, she’s eating your eggs, and telling you your full.

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