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Subscribe to RSS“The furor over President Obama’s birth-control insurance mandate appears to have vaporized as quickly as it blew up,” The Hill writes, adding, “While the president’s Friday ‘accommodation’ did not win over the White House’s most harsh critics, some Republicans and Catholic groups have offered measured support, including centrist Maine Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, suggesting Obama might have at least muddied the waters.”
Still: “GOP opponents of the new rule are showing no signs of backing down. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) have introduced bills to block the mandate, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said over the weekend that he wants a vote on the issue ‘as soon as possible.’”
The AP breaks down Obama’s budget by federal agency.
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Is this all you can come up with with? Distractions! Can't the republican/tea bag party can"t come up with anything better?
Soon the Repubs will learn that Americans aren't biting on this issue anymore and they'll move on to another made up controversy.
Notice that the female legislators are satisfied with the compromise, while men are the ones who want to belabor the issue?
Women are slightly more than 50% of the population in America, and even those conservative Catholics who got their underwear all wedged up over this non-issue use birth control. We know how women will vote if anyone tries to deny them the right to plan their own procreation.
Do you guys really think that life will be just super with another 4 years of Obama? Are ALL our problems the result of Republican greed and corruption? Tax the "rich" more(please accurately quantify rich)---more entitlements---more spending of money that is not there and can never be paid back......seriously? Have you not been watching events in Greece?....Geez just take your hatred of Republicans out of the equation and honestly ask yourself if a society built on socialism with runaway government dependency is REALLY what you want. Put your emotions aside and just start THINKING........or will it just be Democrats are GOOD and they care....Republicans are bad because they don't care.......
Our life would be a lot more super if a certain segment of our nation would open up their minds and get behind programs that will benefit the middle class, instead of ceding their rights and interests to the wealthy, the corporations, and their well paid lobbyists.
Obama's solution to everything is free stuff.
Free birth control, free cell phones, and hey if you stiffed your bank on your mortgage payments here's a couple thousand dollars as a reward.
With the republican/tea bag party only the Middle class and the Poor have to pay. The rich get a free ride!
Either insurance companies pay for the birth control or pay for the abortion. Or, of course, America picks up the tab for an unwanted child.
Free prevention makes complete sense.
It's not free stuff Rob. It's called helping your fellow Americans. If you would get your head out of the sand you'd understand we're all in this together. It's not every man for himself like you tea people GOP koch brother republicans like to think. Look at it this way Rob, if it weren't for your fellow Americans you probably wouldn't be a live today. So quit trying to be the almighty know it all and respect the help your fellow Americans have given you, and try to pay it forward.
That's right, Bart. Unfortunately, we have to deal with a huge segment of the population that can't reason or think for themselves.
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
Benjamin Franklin
Is this the hope and change we want? Everyone likes obama because they get free stuff. But the libbies don't realize there is no such thing as free stuff, someone has to pay for it, just not them!
Everyone likes Obama because they get free stuff?
I haven't gotten any free stuff, unless you call the Lily Ledbetter Act, the salvage of GM, healthcare reform, and economic progress "free stuff".
Saving our country doesn't come cheap and it's sure not free.
kaybee - now you're getting free hot monkey love on the government's dime. As a taxpayer, you're welcome.
My only concern is whether this particular new entitlement is discriminatory against people who for whatever reason can't get laid?
Why Paul M...I thought you were a person who dealt in reality.
Sorry, my mistake.
Rob
Where can I go to get my free cell phone?
All you have to do is get on welfare, then watch T.V. there are a ton of commercials on t.v. about how if you are on welfare you can qualify for a free cell phone. Those of us with jobs and who pay taxes actually have to work for what we get
Beautiful play by the Obama team. When a mistake happened, they reacted quickly, made a move to neutralize the negative consequences, and left the other side looking like extremists. Whether you agree or disagree with the underlying issue, you have to appreciate the political finesse with which the Obama staff handled it.
Auster1
It was more than finesse, Austere1. A lesser man would have told the opposition to have it their way. No free contraception? OK, fine, if you want it you'll have to pay for it yourselves. That's what they were asking for.
But Mr. Obama did what was right for the women of America, even at a political cost. He's a good man who cares about Americans, ALL Americans. Even the ones who are delusional enough to throw away their own rights.
lol, obama subverts the Constitution or othewise screws the Country, and the libbies spin it into something wonderful!
[...obama subverts the Constitution...]
And you have proof of this...
...of course you do...LoL...
Mickey, Obama has an impressive list of accomplishments! Perhaps you can find some Constitutional issues here. Obama was the very first president:
· to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner
·to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
· to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States
· to violate the War Powers Act. .
· to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .
· to defy a Federal Judge's court order to cease implementing the Health Care Reform Law.
· to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
· to spend a trillion dollars on 'shovel-ready' jobs when there was no such thing as 'shovel-ready' jobs.
· to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
· to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. .
· to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.
· to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
· to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space.
· to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
· to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
· to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke-out on the reasons for their rate increases.
· to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
· to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect(AZ, WI, OH, IN).
· to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
· to fire an inspector general of Ameri-corps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
· to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. .
· to golf 73 separate times in his first two and a half years in office, 90 to date.
· to hide his medical, educational and travel records.
· to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
· to go on multiple global 'apology tours'.
· to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends; paid for by the taxpayer.
· to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
· to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
· to repeat the Holy Qur’an tells us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
· to take a 17 day vacation.
Nope... nothing going on here folks, move along!
Our President, Barack Obama is a constitutional scholar who taught that subject at the University of Chicago.
Is it at all possible he might know a little more about the constitution and constitutional law than you do?
kay,
Doesn't mean sh!t. He himself said that "Sometimes The Constitution gets in the way."
Even justice Ginsberg stated during an interview overseas that, "I wouldn't use The U.S. Constitution as a model".
kaybee, Obama may still remember the words, but he has forgotten the meaning of the Constitution!
miked,
You've posted this list before. You still haven't shown where ANY of your list proves that President Obama "subverted the constitution"...
...you do have that information handy, don't you?
...of course you do...
Must be a slow day over at FoxNation and The Blaze, huh?
Mickey, I have NEVER posted this list before! You lie! And if you're trying to get into MY fan club, it will never happen.... even if you lose the habit of picking your nose, it still won't happen! lol
Google Obama Constitutional violations if you want more information.
Miked,
There are millions of articles on the web – that doesn’t mean that any of them are fact based. Post links to reliable sources like major media outlets …
Try again !!
Dennis, you're missing the point.... there is plenty of indications of Obama's disregard for the Constitution but of course he hasn't been tried in a court of law yet, just the court of public opinion. The facts are pretty clear and not even msnbc can deny that, even if they choose to avoid discussing it.... that's why we have FR... to discuss. Granted the 'discussions' here are decidedly left biased and not tolerant of opposing views but it's still fun to listen to the liberal slant.
Jim,
If that were even close to true (even 1 time) then why hasn't the Republican controlled House brought charges of “High Crimes” against our President.
As far as “disregard for the Constitution” what President hasn’t had that said about them?
miked:
[I have NEVER posted this list before! You lie!]
You most certainly have, along with others here...methinks the liar here is you.
[And if you're trying to get into MY fan club, it will never happen....]
You have a fan club? Who is in it...I mean, besides you...?
[Google Obama Constitutional violations if you want more information.]
I took you're advice, and besides being bombarded by computer threats, all I saw were links to sites like Daily Caller...FoxNation (did I call that one or not!), as well as other Tea Party sites that are nothing but propaganda blogs...
So, in light of this new revelation, I am still waiting for your proof that President Obama is "subverting the Constitution", as you posted above...or is it just your humble opinion?
If it is, while we may be entitled to our own opinions, we are most certainly not entitled to our own facts.
Time to put up or shut up, Mikey...
President Obama knows that this issue of contraception is about a woman's health and well being... The party of Bohener with the help of old unrealistic catholic Bishops are trying to make it about church and state... And waving a religious flag works every time...
But I don't think it will work this time...
terry - stay is CA - Obama is making a non issue to cover for him being an lousy President. Why does he not take about his adding 50% to the national debt? Free birth control pills are not a birth right. No one should force the Catholic Church to pay for them. If your company or health insurance pays for birth control, that's fine.
The Republican Party will cut it's nose off to spite it's face. How can they win the pro-life voters if they make access to contraceptives (even for married women) sound like the most immoral thing since statues of naked goddesses were uncovered in the Department of Justice?
Repubs have said nothing even similar to your statement. This was the Obamantion versus the Catholic Church.
Amy, are you sure its access or who pays for it? Nobody is denying or restricting access right? Just like the government should stay out of woman's right to choose, the government should not intrude and force employers to pay for lifestyle drugs.
i hope the prez tells gop to shove it! once again they are going against the majority with another stink bomb!
nov come quickly, and lets kick these no doers out!
“The furor over President Obama’s birth-control insurance mandate appears to have vaporized as quickly as it blew up,” The Hill writes.
MSNBC Obama Reelection Team media, also known as state run media, good job!
Per Axelrod's morning memo to his cronies, "Vaporize" button is on for the following today, besides the war on religion : the Obama budget totally taking a pass on entitlement reform, and Obama's broken promise to cut the deficit in half....Shhhh...
Now back to endless stories about Mitt Romney's ancestors in Mexico, and snarky jokes about Sarah Palin.
Separation of church and state? You betcha!
How about separation of those do-nothing congresspersons from their jobs?
It is easy for 60 year old celibate (?) male Bishops and male members of Congress to blather on and on about not offering contraception coverage to women of child-bearing age because it is against their religion.
Well, put those religious beliefs into practice and try banning it or get out of the Congress because membership in that august body implies that you favor current law including abortion rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.
It would be so fitting if a Democrat member of the House would introduce legislation to ban birth control to include the language that is now being banded about by right wing zealots (i.e. birth control pills, iud’s, morning after pills, etc.)
Up or down vote. I can just see them running for cover now. Cowards.
They talk plenty of smack about “separation of church and state”, blah, blah, blah.
Walk the walk hypocrites.
Bob how come you never mention Fox (aka tea people GOP koch brothers republican propaganda machine)?
Where in the Constitution does it give the President the right to decide a Church must pay for birth control?
That insurance companies must offer free contraceptive services, and the recipient has no co-payment?
No more free exercise of religion, under Nanny State mandates.
Sounds great! Have you got any?
Aren't you forgetting something?
The mandates said that oral contraceptives must be covered.
Did it say they had to be used?
It almost makes me wish sometimes...
Never mind. :)
How come you never mention that great propaganda machine Media Matters. Funny seems like their Founder Brock has been breaking the law in D.C. for years, employing body guards that are carrying guns in D.C., thats been illegal for years. Seems Brock has several other illegal habits like snortin coke. Wonder why he isn't under investigation for both of those crimes.
Funny how this site's own MSNBC gets their talking points from Media Matters daily after, of course Media Matters coordinates the talking points of the day from Jarrett and co. in the white house.
Media Matters needs their tax free status taken away immediately. Oh how funny is it that Media Matters is funded by George Soros, and I'm sure by sheer fate, Morning Jo has two Soros puppets on his show almost daily. Jeffrey Sachs worked with Soros to try to bring down the Russian Rubble, and Halprin's dad worked closely with Soros for many years. Coincidence, I think NOt
Of course, if Mitt and Sarah offered anything of substance, we would be talking about that.
Sadly, they don't.
The only 'substance" that liberals talk about is more giveways from your Nanny State.
How about discussing Obama's failure to deliver on his promise to halve the deficit? Instead more trillions in deficit spending.
How about discussing Obama's total failure to rein in a penny of entitlement spending?
How about you quit parroting every body else s talking points and come up with some thoughts of your own Bob.
Rob,
Our President put a $4 trillion plan on the table that included cuts in Medicare and Boehner, thanks to the Tea Party members of his caucus, walked away.
Bob, your broken record is stuck on "Nanny state, Nanny state, Nanny state..."
Please get it fixed...it's really boring to listen to that over and over.
Dennis,
You're right.....Just like Obama walked away from his own appointed commission.........Simpson/Bowles.
Yes bernie, heshould have embraced that recommendation from Bowles-Simpson but that does not excuse Boehner and his caucus either. There is more than one way to reach a resolution that benefits our country.
When Sarah talks no one understands what she is saying because it is just one run-on sentence.
And to think that woman has a degree in Communications! Where are those professors who gave her passing grades.
It would be hard to track all her professors down, Sheila.
Palin went to about five different (virtually unknown) schools before she finally graduated. I assume she graduated anyway. Maybe not.
Entitlements? I have worked for 46 years and in every one of my paychecks there was a deduction for Social Security and Medicare tax. You're darned right I am entitled! I worked hard for it, paid for it, earned it, and now I am entitled to it because it is MINE! You millionaire teagaggers keep your well-manicured non-calloused hands off of it.
Amen, Robert Burnside! The Koch brothers and their fellow rich teapublicans think only THEY are entitled.
LOL you two are so funny
Please explain yourself, openmind. Are you saying that Robert Burnside is not entitled to the Social Security and Medicare benefits he paid for for 46 years?
this is funny
The demographics of the world are scheduled to fall off a cliff in 2050 or much sooner if Obama puts in place abortion as the cash cow of his healthcare. Radical Secularism has failed in Europe so much so that I cannot believe that we are having the discussion about raising taxes and putting in place a healthcare system and entitlements and bailouts (which in the case of GM was meant to put the govenment in control of 60% of the company so pensions could be paid to the unions who gave millions to Obama in 2008--why not Kodak?) while Greece is burning. The Greeks (the most aborting nation in the West check it out on Wiki) now are rioting in the streets because of austerity programs they have to adopt because the Radical Secularist ideas did not work there! Europe is imploding and Obama, so willing to even the playing field, is pandering to the very ideas that got them there in the first place. Buffet and Soros play with euros to keep them inflated. Europe would have been dead long ago if the ballout money that went to banks hadn't ended up there.
You can rest easy, MaryT.
Roe v. Wade has been the law of the land since 1973...you have probably just woken from your coma.
Wait. You're complaining about secularization?
If it weren't for some measure of secularization, Galileo/Copernicus/Isaac Newton never would've been published. Those guys were exiled for going against church doctrine of the universe centering around the earth.
There never would've been Pilgrims in the US, because the Church of England would've just put them all to the sword.
The American Revolution never would've happened. We were still a province of England and subject to both the Crown and Church of England, albeit only technically.
All these were 'stages' of secularization showing humanity fighting against the 'Church that is'...basically secularizing and seperating their personal and political goals from their religious goals.
And you think that all of the above was...bad?
Your head must be a dark and scary place to live in.
Mary
I abhor the personal attacks I see too often in these columns. I can only advise you to watch the (non-Fox) nightly news. They advertise many wonderful medical products, several of which could be beneficial to your mental health. Also, dial down on Rush and Fox News.
Why confuse those boneheads with reality? Why ask them to look at history? It's a wonder some of those conservatives aren't still worshiping the sun.
This 'religious' craziness is nothing more than a fad, like tent revivalism...this too shall pass.
I can't wait!
Catholic bishops are elevated in part due to their political skills. These skills do not translate well to public discourse. Note response to priest pedophilia: duck, cover, deny, litigate, capitulate, negotiate, hide the assets.
These bishops are treading on the fault line between devout Catholics who ignore Church prohibition of artificial pregnancy control (say 90%) and the Medieval Church leaders who pretend they are perpetuating Catholic Doctrine.
Their current alliance with the GOP overreaching legitimate concerns and grasping for the blanket elimination of reproductive health insurance coverage risks them becoming totally irrelevant to the Catholic rank and file (Santinomium excluded).
When they did away with Limbo, that was it for me. I'm done with those quacks in their funny hats. :)
teknishan:
You know righties don't deal in facts...you are wasting your time trying to educate them about why we do things differently in America!
Thanks for trying!
You must be a social promotion, affirmative action, PC created doctor. You really are a "witch" doctor.
Those of you ranting about insuance companies and/or chuch institutions being forced to pay for birth control/contraceptives...they are not only for contraception...they are subscribed for other health reasons.
They don't care, Dragon. It's just an issue they think they can spin for political purposes. Too bad most Americans don't want their church deciding their health care for them.
Please tell me his holiness the Catholic Newt Gingrich followed the anti-contraceptive dictates of his church. What pious baloney.
Women - no one will restrict your use of contraceptives. Evil Demorats(Stuphy Stephaoulgus) in coordination with the Obamanation are trying to take a non issue and make it a major issue. If you are scared by the lie of the Obamantion, it's your fault.
the obama girls are probably on the Pill. Their father said "If my daughters make a mistake, I don't want them burdened with a baby." Me - If the country makes a mistake, I don't want them burdened with Obama.
That's way out of line. You should be ashamed of yourself for speaking about children that way. Where did you come up with the name 'nazarite'? Jesus would be outraged.
How to Get Rich
Or
Obama’s Vision for America
“The Breadwinner”
Produce them children like a bunny rabbit
Never ever get married
Mo sperm donors the better
Keep doing it till you get it right
It’s all mixed up!
Whos’ the daddy, you never know
Was it Alfons, little Dickey or Jeremiah too!
It’s hard work lyin on yer back
But the pay is Goood
Free food, housing, healthcare, abortions and a cellphone to boot!
Need Mo Money, put hm on disability
Need Mo Money, let Mamma foster care them.
Then I herd Shamicka proudly say, I’m the breadwinner and
I sur love my President!
He’s my Obama honey money!
It is common sense - more contraception use, fewer abortions. You would think everyone would be happy, no matter who pays. The loudest criers of this are males - some things, unfortunately, never change.
Common sense is in short supply in some quarters. The people who want to deny women access to contraceptives and legal abortion are the same people who bemoan all the unmarried mothers in this country. Those unplanned children will need food, clothing, shelter and education.
Perfection is not an option here on Earth, so can we try to make the best of what we've got? Sometimes you have to make hard choices. Too many Americans need to get their befuddled heads out of the sand and face reality.
More VD?? and we don't deny anybody anything we just don't want to pay for it. Do you want to help us have more children by paying for our fertility drugs and In Vitro Fertilization procedures?
What this is really about is an attempt to reverse laws that prevents HCR from funding abortions. By forcing insurance companies to cover "contraception", its an "end around" way to "get around" States that voted in laws that restrict abortion coverage. It has nothing to do with "religious rights", its all "smoke and mirrors" when the real goal is an attempt to eliminate provisions agreed to for support for passage of HRC from those opposed to Government funded abortion. PERIOD....................
No one on the right wants to ban anything they just don't want to pay for it. If anyone say they do it is just a lie. Do you all want to pay for my right to have fertility drugs and In Vitro Fertilization procedures?
Who cares about your invitro? You failing to get pregnant isn't going to cost us money. I'd rather my tax dollars pay for birth control if it means i'm not paying for some welfare queen with five kids food and housing over the next 30 years.
50 cents will protect better from unwanted pregnancy and VD, but we are told people just can afford that. Boy we are in trouble.
It's 98% effective against pregnancy the best protection against STDs/AIDS, the only thing better is not to have sex. It has very little to no side effects, like cancer and other side effect that oral contraceptives and implants have, it is very cheap, and can be found anywhere and is even given out in some schools. What is it? A prophylactic, condom, rubber, sheath call it what you will, but it is one of the best for over all protection. So if you don’t want the burden of a child use it and you won’t be a burden on me.
Yep government will make us spend 1000s to do what a 50 cent rubber will do.
BTW it was our president that use the term burden when talking about this subject.
Hey does anyone think MSNBC is going to get sued for like 20,000 counts of slander? I mean after all Media Matter is totally discredited and exposed as pack of character assasins bought and paid for by the white house. Who bought and paid for MSNBC?