Harry Reid: ‘We’re going to do something’ on Hobby Lobby

Politico ^ | 7/7/14 | By SEUNG MIN KIM

[Responsibility2nd]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Democrats will take up legislation in the “coming weeks” to address last month’s Supreme Court decision that allowed some employers with religious objections to opt out of Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

Democrats on Capitol Hill have overwhelmingly criticized the high court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case and are working to craft a response that would restore the coverage, though no specifics have yet been outlined.

“We’re going to do something about the Hobby Lobby legislation,” Reid said on the Senate floor Monday as he ticked off the Senate’s to-do list over the next several weeks.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Angry bitter losers.”

‘How dare these people defy us? Do they know who we are? They need to be punished.’
This seems to pretty much be the sentiment of a large swath of the political elite.

[ForYourChildren]

Typical mormon reality check. What a goofer.

[headstamp 2]

Got to hand it to the left. When the bastards can’t find a judge to ram it down our throats they go back to making up bullsh** laws to do the same thing.

[fortheDeclaration]

Reid knows that he can’t get anything done with mid-term elections coming!

[Vigilanteman]

You are correct. However, normally, special legislation is to grant something positive. The best example I can recall off hand was the case of an Asian immigrant kid in our town who was mentally challenged and unable to pass the U.S. Citizenship test. He was well-liked and deeply patriotic. Our high school civics class wrote letters to our congressman and U.S. Senators and special legislation to make him a citizen passed before the term was over.

Special legislation to apply something negative is much tougher. If this is what Harry Reid means when he calls for doing something about the Hobby Lobby case, I cannot think of any precedent, though I'm sure there must be something such as some of the stuff Lincoln did during the Civil War.

Under normal circumstances, special legislation to apply something negative would fall in the same general category as a Bill of Attainder or an Ex-Post Facto law and be thrown out.

[jimt]

Typical mormon reality check. What a goofer.

Sure thing. Just like Nancy Pelosi is a typical Catholic reality check, right ????

Slandering religions because of one apostate member is not cool.

Both of them should have been excommunicated long ago.

[NormsRevenge]

And here I thought Harry uhhh Dusty went to skool in a mine shaft as a kid.. ‘Cuse me.

It may well explain his acute ability to smell a foreigner at a 100 meters.. Upwind..

How we were ever blessed with this buttwadd is beyond me.