At a town hall, Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) tried to convince her angry constituents that the recent HHS contraception mandate doesn’t apply to Catholic hospitals because Obama’s “accomodation” requires insurance companies to pay. The gentleman in this clip explains that the Catholic hospitals are self-insured (like more than half of the employers in the U.S.) and thus still being forced to pay. And [...]
This video, from the Heritage Foundation, captures the essence of the Obama administration’s anti-conscience mandate. And you don’t have to be religious to understand that it is dangerous. As Matthew Spalding, VP of American Studies at Heritage puts it: What is happening has little to do with health care or even public policy and everything [...]
On March 26, when the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments in the ObamaCare cases, the first point that will be argued is the government’s contention that the individual mandate is a tax. The DOJ is making this claim in the hope that the Court will invoke the Anti-Injunction Act (AIA) in order to avoid [...]
Jim Cramer from CNBC’s Mad Money urges conservatives not to let Obama’s red herring, the contraception issue, get them off message on the damage ObamaCare is doing to the economy: What I’m telling you, business leaders fear this more than anything. They don’t want to hire … because no one wants people on the books because [...]
I have been very skeptical of the conventional wisdom which holds that the Obama administration simply screwed up on the contraceptive issue, but I have been unable to figure out why they think it’s a winner for them. In this clip, Dick Morris puts his finger on the strategy: Obama did not make a mistake in this [...]
In the short clip below, George Will succinctly sums up the meaning of the controversy surrounding the HHS contraception edict: Three points. As Paul Ryan said to you, this is an accounting gimmick that they’ve done that in no way ends the complicity of Catholic institutions and individuals in delivering services they consider morally abhorrent. Second. You [...]
It would appear that the concensus among Catholic Bishops and a wide variety of other commentators on the President’s ostensible contraception compromise is that he has offered a distinction without a difference. A statement by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops goes as follows: We note that today’s proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance [...]
In the face of the huge backlash from Catholic leaders, conservatives and more than a few liberals, Obama announced an important change to the contraceptive mandate recently issued by his HHS apparatchiks: Women still will be guaranteed coverage for contraceptive services without any out-of-pocket cost, but will have to seek the coverage directly from their [...]
If this Obama shill is worried, it should scare the living daylights out of you. In this clip he provides a surprisinngly coherent and succinct explanation concerning why the HHS edict undermines the moral authority of the Catholic church: [ht Breitbart]
Senator Rubio not only explains in clear irrefutable English why this outrageous bureaucratic fiat is a brazen attack on liberty and the First Amendment. He then explains it in clear irrefutable Spanish. Why isn’t this guy running for President?
