Obama’s laughable compromise on health mandate

The Orange County Register blog Orange Punch ^ | 2-10-2012 | Mark Landsbaum

[landsbaum]

President Barack Obama has been hammered lately over his health mandate that every employer must provide insurance coverage for contraception, abortifacients and even sterilization, things many religious people find to be sinful, according to the tenets of their faith.

As our editorial today points out, this is an egregious violation of First Amendment guarantees to the exercise of religious beliefs when the state demands people act against their beliefs. The White House today has suggested a compromise, which is transparently absurd...

[Argus]

If he is re-elected, he's vindicated

Exactly. That's why he's done this now, and we will see more of this type of envelope-pushing before November. He's laying down markers for his second term. Obama and his gang are confident that he will be re-elected.

They're sure they can beat Romney easily, and any other candidate from the Republican field as presently constituted. It's all about money, free media, turnout of the leftwing base, and massive fraud. Once he's safely returned to office for another four years, all the screws that are being turned now will be tightened all the way down. Operation Transformation will be complete.

[Edgerunner]

The only abortion I wish had happened was to abort Obama.

[SunkenCiv]

Big floppy hat and fur trenchcoat ping.

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