Request by Laz Ping!
If the leadership of the GOP happens to see this, perhaps they will do something to counter the plan.
Where else in Medicine do you pay ZERO? Kid has snotty nose, co-pay at the Dr's office, and co-pay if you need to take a trip to the pharmacy. Co-pay to see the GI Dr. every couple years for the scope. Co-pay to have a mammogram ordered and read.
Here we have a brand new gummint mandate not only for coverage of a procedure, but what the co-pay will be. I've never seen this before, even with Mediscare.
I’ve seen several FReepers argue that Obama is throwing down a huge smoke-screen amongst conservatives with this Catholic Contraception brou-haha.
That Bammie is diverting attention away from the real economic issues and is laughing up his sleeves as FiCons and SoCons are arguing between ourselves on this issue.
Naturally the FiCons are going; “SEE! This is why we must focus mainly on fiscal issues.”
SoCons argue back that; “We can (and must) focus on the social issues as well as the economic ones.”
In any event, we must recognize these political games our enemies are playing.
Someone should go on every show they can and tell the host what a POS Stephanopoulos is.
There is no leadership in the GOP. This party has no message in part because the moderates refuse to get behind anything remotely viewed as conservative. They will not do anything about this because they can't even agree on where to eat lunch.
In hindsight, this was a coordinated maneuver orchestrated from the White House.
ABC News was coordinating its debate questions directly with the Obamah administration.
“an election-winning issue”
for who?
Catholic union-democrats will have a hard time voting for a Catholic-hating democrat when the GOP offers up a union-friendly devout Catholic candidate (Santorum)
Have you tried to publish this in any papers’ editorial sections? It needs a wider audience!
Also, I need to be on your “I’d hit it” ping list!
My post on another thread today seems to be appropriate for this one also. Hope you will not object to having it appear here.
Poet Robert Frost once described a character which may bear a familiar resemblance to readers of this thread.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
The pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls from an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
In today's case, the "provinciality" seems to be limited to the "progressives'" dabbling in and discussing the ideas of Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians and believing they can impose those ideas on a free people.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of "their teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because it does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the current Administration and so-called "progressives" who control the Executive and one-half of the Legislative branch of government.
The Founders' Constitution's strict limits on coercive power by elected representatives are being ignored and disavowed; the free enterprise system which allowed individual citizens to achieve and excel in their chosen pursuits is being co-opted by elected and unelected bureaucrats; and the rights of conscience, speech, and religion are being trampled as we post here.
"The People" should be debating great ideas such as how to preserve liberty, or, in economic matters, the wisdom of the great moral philosopher, Adam Smith's "Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations." Instead, they are being hoodwinked by a president who believes they are ignorant or foolish enough to believe that deficit spending, debt, and government control will lead to prosperity.
When, in 1776, our ancestors felt the heavy hand of the British government "taking" their earnings, regulating their lives, interfering with their beliefs, and asserting coercive control over their actions, they did not waste their time on such trivia.
They wrote great treatises such as "Thoughts on Government" and "Common Sense." They educated their young on the merits of liberty, as opposed to slavery to government, and they did the groundwork which allowed for a written Constitution for self-government to be ratified in the states only eleven years later.
America is about to be bankrupt, both financially and philosophically, and those who have benefited from the Founders' ideas, who call themselves "conservators" (conservatives) of those ideas, should come together to place those ideas before millions of young people who must participate in voting in November on whether they desire liberty or slavery. Women, youth, men, so-called "seniors"--all need to have the choice presented clearly that this election pits the ideas of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and America's other Founders against the ideas of Marx, Lenin, and Keynes.
There are always "useful idiots." That's what every oppressive regime has relied upon. A "useful idiot" with a big megaphone is more dangerous to liberty than millions of ordinary ones, because of the ability to lull more people into a sense of complacency.
America, awaken! This decades-long battle for your liberty has been engaged. But, for decades, you have allowed the ideas of your liberty to be censored from your nation's textbooks and public discourse.
Our best weapon is contained in our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution which leaves all the power in "the People's" hands. Read them, amplify upon their principles and ideas by accessing the Founders' writings and speeches.
For a quick review of those principles and the nation's first 50 years under its Constitution, consult John Quincy Adams' "Jubilee" Address here, or a recent reprint of a 1987 Bicentennial collection of the Founders' principles, here.
James Madison stated: "Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant—they have been cheated; asleep—they have been surprised; divided—the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ... the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it ... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."
That’s one branch of the thinking about what the Obots are really up to. I proposed my own earlier today at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2846822/posts?page=17#17 What it means to have the Obots pinging on the young ladies is that the YOUT VOTE IS IN PLAY and the Democrats are losing it. It’s that Greek level employment level!
Excellent post and insightful observation. Agree. BTTT.
If it was obvious to me it was obvious to the Obots. It may well NOT be obvious to most of the regular suspects on ourside, e.g. Ann ~ she seems oblivious to what it means to young people to get out of college and find no jobs in their field, and no full time work FOR YEARS AT A TIME.
Same with the others.
Fact is the Yout(h) Vote is centered in the population bearing the brunt of the continuous, systemic UNEMPLOYMENT. That's why they are at home in the basement.
The Democrats LOSE in every election if we can come up with something for them.
The Democrats imagine unemployed young college educated people and recent high school graduates looking for even day work can be recruited for the price of a condom in an insurance policy they can't afford to buy!
THEY ARE NUTS. And so are we to ignore it. Sure, the Democrats still have enough organizational knowledge to line up Gregory or Stephenopoulous ~ but what else do they have?
I'm overjoyed to find out that the Democrat "internals" tell them they don't have a lock on the kids ~
You can do whatever the heck you want. But do NOT make your fellow citizens pay for YOUR CHOICES. Your choices are NOT my business and most importantly NOT the Government’s business. As soon as you accept Government Handouts via Government Programs, the Government will dictate to you how to behave; what toilet to use, what light bulb to use, what text book to use, what crop to plant, what health care choices you have, etc. etc. Aren't you uncomfortable laundering YOUR hard earned dollars through the DC Mafia? I know I am and I am willing to fight for your take home pay and your freedom to live life the way YOU CHOSE.
bttt
Good catch, Laz. Thanks.
This is a full on, flat out assault on the First Amendment. No matter what the subterfuge, that is what it is, and anyone who argues differently only obfuscates the true issue, whether knowingly, (in most cases,) or unknowingly, (as in the case of making this either a health issue or a religious issue when it is neither.)
Snuffleupagus totally wrecked his career with this move.
He’ll be marked down as a journ-whore for the rest of his life after coordinating this with Valerie J and Media Matters.
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Not only an excellent analysis by Lazmataz (yes, Laz!) but good comments on the thread. This is an attack against the First Amendment primarily and I agree. It's a beat down on religious expression and freedom.
Provoke a confrontation, get a rise out of the victim, then blame the victim for it. That’s just another turn of the Alinsky cog. I think the Catholics are getting more sympathy than the administration figured on for this one, however, because it is abundantly clear it is not the Catholics who are forcing something on somebody here. It sounds more to me like an election LOSING issue for Obama. The stink may be difficult to purge by Election Day.
Dear Laz,
You hit it. Nice job.