This is why I’m not that excited about Hobby Lobby. Its too little, too late. We have the monstrosity that is Obamacare. So closely-held businesses don’t need to provide free birth control. So what? Is that really a huge victory? No. Its carving out a small piece of an otherwise totalitarian law. Its being happy that we were not beaten while we were being raped. Obamacare has to go, but its looking more and more like it won’t because the feckless GOP has given up the fight and the courts don’t have the balls to overturn it.
There is another case peculating up that challenges the ACA based on the origination of the penalty that was determined to not be a penalty but a tax coming out of the Senate. If that is not overturned it means the origination clause is meaningless with the Senate stripping any bill from the House and inserting any new tax.
Look at the left’s reaction to the HL case and you’ll see that it indeed WAS important. One of the main reasons for the aca was to make sure everyone pArticipated in child murder. They’re enraged that they failed.
While in terms of gutting Obamacare, Hobby Lobby may not seem big, it is big in one other respect. The Left wanted to force Christians to violate their own conscience and show that abortofacients must be offered by all. The reason they are in meltdown is not because the right of the government to impose their policies against Christians failed. In that sense Hobby Lobby is a huge victory. They believe their policies are morally superior and take precedence. The Supreme Court blew a hole in that world view.
Ever hear of ‘the death of a thousand cuts’?
Yea, yea, yea, too slow for you, me too. Still, if we can’t get a full and complete repeal of this law, in a timely manner, let’s at least try to bleed it to death.
I think a pretty large majority of businesses are “closely held” so maybe this is not so small.
Maybe it’s like the pretty large majority of jobs are with “small business”?