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Mandate Mandate

yes you willThere is no clearer indication that the false outrage over the Hobby Lobby verdict isn’t getting the rhetorical job done than a bunch of Democrats writing a Bill they know will never pass to fix what they were too afraid to put in the original ACA to begin with.

Knowing it would never pass with an abortion mandate the Democrats left one out of the Affordable Care Act–promising it was not going to be some sort of abortion mandate–even though they left enough loopholes in it to make getting there from here as easy as a “The Secretary Shall.”

The Secretary did in fact “Shall” an abortion mandate into existence and at least a few folks suggested that they were not comfortable paying for things that prevent a pregnancy from producing a child.

Democrats wailed, pounded chests, and declared high-treason against their worldview.

The Supreme Court reminded them that there was this law, signed by some obscure Democrat named Bill Clinton that made this end around illegal.  Democrats immediately focused their near-constant rage (presumably at having to follow the law they wrote filtered through the law their favorite black White President signed) by unleashing the Dogs of War on Women.

They resurrected the Ghosts of Julia, observing how deficient her Centrally Planned life would become if she could only get 16 of the approved FDA “contraceptives” instead of 20.  That’s not what they said. They claimed that companies had been given permission by five white guys, one of whom is black, to deny women contraception (all because they could read a bill signed by a white guy with a history of an actual war on women).

Democrats implied this ruling blocked access to contraceptives over the counter at thousands of locations nationwide.

Democrats implied that women could not go to thousands of health centers, clinics, or similar, to get low-cost or free access to “contraceptives,” nationwide.

All because one  company was fine with paying for 16 kinds of contraception but not 20.

None of what the Democrats said was true, but they said it anyway. (No, we are not surprised.)

I guess, for some reason, none of that worked.

People outside the liberal media bubble were not moved.  Not enough to offset the electoral drag of an unpopular president and the bill that bears his name–the one that would never have passed a Democrat majority House and Senate if it had a contraception or abortion mandate in it.

The solution to all of this is to write a bill that would make it illegal for people to object to what Democrats want–which should not come as a surprise because that defines almost every bill Democrats write.  This one would bypass any existing legal barriers, regardless of which White Male Democrat President signed them, and require any business that offers insurance to cover FDA approved abortion medication.

The goal is not to pass the law, but to get Republicans to stand up for the rights of individuals to object to Democrats using the force of government to impose their will on everyone.   This will be portrayed as Republicans hating women, and obstructing their rights, which they hope will turn out women to vote for Democrats in a year when fewer people seem interested in turning out to vote for Democrats.

And if, by some twist of fate, they passed it, Republicans would stay home in adequate numbers to keep Democrats from getting kicked out of office.

Passage of such a bill would also advance another inevitable outcome of the Bill they passed without the Abortion/Contraceptive mandate in it.  Employers would simply not offer insurance at all, which is what Democrats really want.  They want to force people to come to the government for coverage so they can control it, and by extension them.

It’s so much easier for Democrats to force people to do what they want when they control their access to quality of life, and life itself.

That’s all Democrats really want.  They will say or do anything to ensure they control the power required to make that happen.

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