[Verginius Rufus]

This was cleverly stage-managed--the announcement came on Friday and took some time to analyze so by the time the Catholic bishops came out and denounced it, they had lost time and meanwhile the media was pushing the Obama talking points. The result is that a lot of people are confused and think there was a concession by the Obama administration.

Not to mention that people seem to think it is reasonable to compromise between a basic right and a political policy agenda...or to take poll results as an indication of what the Catholic Church should be saying about contraception.

Luke 16.8: "The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light."

[Qbert]

I wouldn’t sweat it- there is time. Remember, Obamacare was even favored to some degree in the polls in the early stages before people started learning about the details... and then everybody with at least half a brain hated it.

Obama may think he’s being really clever here- but the more this drags on, the more I think he’s going to regret. He’ll move on to his next piece of the Constitution to shred... but people of faith won’t forget what he did here. You don’t force religious people to subsidize abortifacients.

[Paul R.]

This was cleverly stage-managed

Two can play that game...