Posted on 07/27/2012 6:05:24 PM PDT by LonelyCon
This spring, Republicans were on a mission: repeal the Obama administration’s rule to require employers to cover birth control. House Speaker John Boehner even stood on the floor of the House in February and promised that Congress would act. “This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand,” Boehner said.
But now, with the rule set to take effect Wednesday — part of the “Obamacare” law the GOP hates so much — the fiery repeal rhetoric has fizzled. In fact, few on Capitol Hill are saying anything about it at all. And that House vote to block the rule? Never happened — and isn’t in the works either. A group of die-hards on the issue asked for it again in a closed-door meeting Wednesday with House leadership but said no promises were made.
Even Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.), one of the most vocal critics of the rule and co-sponsor of a bill to eliminate it, has gone quiet now that the rule is about to kick in.
It’s a reminder of how fast things changed for Republicans this spring. What looked like a great attack line against the president on religious liberty — and a chance to rally evangelical and Catholic voters against President Barack Obama — quickly morphed into another example of what the left dubbed the Republicans’ “war on women.”
And it seems like House Republican leadership took the attacks to heart. A small group of House Republicans and religious liberty groups are trying to get the issue going again — including attempts to get the courts to halt it — but they’re not getting any traction with top Republicans.
“The administration’s mandate is an attack on religious freedom in America and that it needs to be reversed,” Boehner’s spokesman, Michael Steel, told POLITICO. “We’re working closely with the Catholic bishops and others committed to religious liberty to find a path that will undo this attack on religious freedom.”
I get frustrated with some people here some times, they are easily manipulated by the likes of Politico.
Sen Jim DeMint has already outlined the strategy. I just posted it.
I don’t know when House Speaker John Boehner is running again. But I would even vote for a democrat to keep him from winning again. And I never voted for a democrat in my life.
I don’t know when House Speaker John Boehner is running again. But I would even vote for a democrat to keep him from winning again. If He were in my district. And I never voted for a democrat in my life.
I think they’re letting the lawsuits take the lead, which is fine by me.
Every 2 years I would guess :)
Maybe maybe not...remember this is from Politico (hardly our friend) AND written by two women with an sagenda. Their goal is to get conservatives to tire and give up
Being Politico I do not doubt that. But the GOP has a long record of playing Lucy pull the football with stuff like this and every time Lucy does in fact pull the football. Then the GOP puts op some ‘conservative’ out there to explain why this was needed.
Sorry. DeMint has more than a few questionable votes to his credit. He may be more ‘conservative’ than most in the GOP but he is still very much “GOP” first and foremost.
DeMint is the most conservative in the US Senate and his motive is never questionable.
And by the way, he is out in the Senate doing what he has to do to make things right instead sitting behind a computer and whinning about things.
Then Stop posting your complaints to FR on any political topic. If I can’t, neither can you.
And please do read up on DeMint. As I said, he may be more conservative than most, but he has his issues.
Lastly, unless he turns water into wine, he’s human hand any human’s motives are ‘questionable’...unless you go the drooling lapdog route. Which I don’t. You are free to tread that path, or not, at your determination.
Er, could you please . . . grow a pair? I refer you to John Belushi's speech in Animal House on "when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor."
We've got a big job ahead of us. It may resemble the task Washington faced in late 1776. Or a civil war. Is this the time to be checking out?
The GOP is standing by and forcing Good Christians to fund the murder of millions of children.
They are watching the trains going to the Death Camps
It would appear that some conservatives believe the MSM only when they say bad things about Republicans...
We care about the contraception coverage mandate because it is pressing us into paying for the murder of innocent babies.
“I am not naive about how spineless my party — the GOP — can be. But I think Romney’s going to win and I believe the Republicans will have an easy time reversing the anti-religious aspects of Obamacare.”
Yeah...think how great it will be when Romney gets to implement all his great Mass ideas (Romneycare, gay marriage, abortion on demand, gun control) with the blessing of a GOP controlled congress.
President Romney with a GOP majority led by Boehnor, McConnell, McCain sounds outstanding.
Do you think Sen Rubio will also tackle comprehensive immigration reform?
We are screwed either way. In my mind Romney, aided by a GOP congress probably does more long term damage than Obama, opposed by a GOP congress, can do in four more years.
Oh, horse****. The ONLY way to get this damnable law and the enforcements thereof to be changed is to CHANGE the legislative and executive branches.
People ARE working to change the mandate, but believe it or not the House of Representatives doesn’t have dictatorial powers.
We have to do this the right way.
The best way is to defeat the despicable occupant of the White House in November, and put Republicans in charge of the legislative branch again.
I'm seeing it that way too.
I'm seeing it that way too.
“I think the feeling may be that Romney is going to win and that it makes sense to wait until after the election to fight the religious liberty battle.”
Great so Romney thinks that religious liberty is a losing issue. Why did y’all nominate this clown?
The best way is to actually nominate and elect a conservative...
Is this the same Jim Demint,who in April 2011,said of Romneycare, “I have no problem with it”?
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