ObamaCare is One Big Death Panel. Liberty gets strangled, the constitution atrophes. The crisis with the Catholic Church threatened to make that disease obvious to all, so the White House moved quickly to treat the symptom - that is, the headache caused by the free contraception requirement.
02/10/2012 - 9:36am
It's odd to hear Chris Matthews going for the jugular rather than calling people racist, but he's fired up because he's Catholic. Here, he busts John Heilemann for repeating phony White House arguments.
It's not the law of the land... those requirements are not the same as this... that's what the White House is putting out... get that established independently of the White House, just do that...
02/10/2012 - 7:51am
Marco Rubio got people excited at CPAC Thursday.
He quipped that when he arrived for the first time on Capitol Hill, and, looked around at his storied congressional colleagues, he wondered how he, at the age of 40, had made it to these hallowed halls. Within six months, however, Rubio says he was wondering: “How did they get here?”
Unlike any leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other,” Rubio thundered. “The basic argument he is making to our nation is that the reason why some of us are worse off than we used to be is because other people are doing too well. That the only way for some of us to do better is for some people to do worse.”
02/10/2012 - 5:16am
Does Tim Thomas have a right to voice his political opinions? Can he expect not to be asked follow-up questions?
Two weeks after making waves by skipping a team visit to the White House, Bruins goalie Tim Thomas expressed his opposition on Facebook yesterday to a federal mandate requiring faith-based organizations to pay for contraception for their female employees.
“I Stand with the Catholics in the fight for Religious Freedom,’’ Thomas wrote on his Facebook page.
Below that sentence, he posted a version of a famous quotation from Martin Niemöller, a Protestant clergyman who was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Niemöller, who died in 1984, spoke in the oft-cited remarks about those who did not speak up against Nazi purges of Jews and others because they were not among their ranks.
Thomas is right on target.
“Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up,’’ Niemöller said, according to the version Thomas posted yesterday.
His statement about religious freedom was a reference to the opposition from many Catholic leaders and people of other faiths to the mandate, which requires religious-affiliated organizations to offer health insurance plans that cover the cost of contraception for female employees.
02/10/2012 - 1:53am
Nearly every thought expressed by Mimi Alford in her interview with Meredith Vierra is worth clipping and posting. Her affair with JFK started during a summer internship after her freshman year in college, then continued into the next school year. He would call her dorm using a code name they'd planned, and would fly her back to Washington so she could be available for sex.
You didn't know at the time that there were other women?
02/09/2012 - 4:43pm
Here's an incredible revelation from the Mimi Alford story about her affair with Jack Kennedy. Mimi says she was scouted in high school by the White House - then invited a year later to do an internship that she'd never applied for!
It all goes back to 1961, when Mimi... was a senior at Miss Porter's Boarding School for Girls in Connecticut... a year after her article was printed, she got a call - totally out of the blue - for a job she hadn't even applied for, an internship in the White House press office.
Recruited in high school to be JFK's lover. Yet the feminists don't seem outraged.
02/09/2012 - 6:25am
Washington Post political writer Melinda Henneberger discusses the difficulty she encounters trying to have rational conversations with friends regarding the contraception controversy.
I just think the two sides can't hear each other... I know in my own conversations with friends... I'm saying First Amendment, First Amendment, First Amendment - and what I hear back is, "Wow, I had no idea you didn't believe in birth control."
02/09/2012 - 4:38am
The political meltdown over contraception offers voters a chance to finally understand two big motivators of the left; its contempt for religion, and its contempt for the Constitution. That reality continues to be driven home as Democrats, some close allies of the president, break ranks on the attack on the church.
Tim Kaine, a former Democratic National Committee chairman running for Senate in Virginia this year, also said the White House should revisit the rule’s exemptions for religious organizations. The current policy does not apply to churches, but institutions such as Catholic hospitals and universities have to comply.
“I think the White House made a good decision in including a mandate for contraception coverage in the Affordable Care Act insurance policy, but I think they made a bad decision in not allowing a broad enough religious-employer exemption,” Kaine said in a radio interview, according to a transcript provided by his campaign.
In other words, Kaine supports the tyranny of ObamaCare - he just thinks, in this case, the tyranny goes too far.
02/08/2012 - 7:32pm
Does Mitt have a Hillary problem? NBC's Chuck Todd explains the theory.
Mitt Romney's won every state that Hillary Clinton won, and has lost every state so far that Hillary Clinton lost... there was a mission passion for her inside the base of the Democratic Party...
02/08/2012 - 12:25pm
The most alarming part of Mitt's performance in Tuesday's contests is the drop in support for Romney compared to four years ago... like losing almost half his voters in Colorado, with less dramatic drops in Minnesota and Missouri!
Even more surprising, Rick Santorum and his low-budget campaign won without spending much money or time in those states. The stunning losses plainly show Romney is having great difficulty winning over conservatives and make his path toward the Republican nomination more challenging.
