[January 10, 2014]The latest suit involving the president's
centerpiece legislation is aimed at the Little Sisters of the Poor.
This Catholic organization has been taking care of the
elderly poor for 175 years. A new ruling handed down by Sonia Sotomayor, a Supreme Court justice, offered a decision granting this
organization a temporary injunction from the federal Health and
Human Services rules under the Obamacare law that requires a
contraceptive mandate. The mandate smacks against the religious
freedom enjoyed by individuals and organizations like the Little
Sisters of the Poor. The administration is urging the Supreme Court
to reverse the injunction and accept the contraceptive mandate
against the will of organizations like the Little Sisters of the
Poor.
Many believe the president has established plans in his
administration to wage war against the Constitution of the United
States. The establishment of a law (Obamacare) that takes over
one-sixth of the nation's economy is a ploy of redistribution of
wealth, a war against Christian beliefs and practices, a plan to
increase taxes more substantially than ever before, provide bailout
funding for large insurance companies, pave the way for the greatest
debt known, which will likely be unsustainable, drive more people away
from having insurance policies than the law was going to try to
"fix," strip away portions of the Constitution and establish a
single-payer plan in America akin to socialism.
To deflect America's attention away from the Obamacare meltdown, the
president is now turning his attention to issues like extending
unemployment benefits for another three months. He sees this as a
way to blame the Republican leadership for being "harsh" and
"cold-hearted" toward those who are depending on the unemployment
checks and wish them to be continued.
The Fox News senior political
analyst, Brit Hume, opined on Fox News' "Special Report" on Jan.
6, "We're now four and a half years into an economic recovery that
Democrats keep telling us is getting better all the time, yet, the
job market remains so weak, the jobless rate so high that the
president considers it an emergency." Hume continued his
analysis: "Indeed, that is the official name of these extended
benefits, emergency unemployment compensation. Normally,
unemployment payments run out after 26 weeks, but that was extended
five years ago to 99 weeks and has been repeatedly extended since."
His conclusion: "Upon taking office, the president and the party set
two big goals. One was to revive the economy, the other to reform
health care. The Obamacare mess tells us where we are on one; the
call for further unemployment payments tells us where we are on the
other." To this, he added the president's big push to continue to
extend these unemployment benefits is nothing more than an admission
to the failure of his own policies.
A second theme the president will push in hope of sidelining the
constant reminder of the Obamacare mess will be to again push
Congress to increase the minimum wage. He will give speeches with
backdrops of single breadwinner mothers whose children depend on
the minimum wage job she has to keep them fed. He will point to the
hard-hearted "millionaire" congressional Republican members who are
selfish, inflexible and mean as the roadblock for these families
having affordable salaries.
He will fail to mention the devastating
effects pushing the minimum wage for temporary jobs upward will have
on small businesses across the nation. Nor will he mention that the
cost of living will go up for all Americans due to the increased
cost of doing business resulting from the increase in the minimum
wage. Nor will he mention that since Lyndon Johnson declared a "war
on poverty" 50 years ago, we have spent more than $17 trillion, and the density of poverty has not changed in those
last 50 years. Nor will he mention that during his first term in
office and the completion of his first year of his second term, the
economy has been so bad that a recovery from the recession has been so
sluggish there was a need to more than double the number of people
receiving food stamps in America. Finally, he will fail to mention
that he has focused his attention on taking over one-sixth of the
nation's economy with his health insurance law, but has failed to
focus on job creation and the fulfillment of the American dream by
putting more people to work rather than redistributing the wealth
through rhetoric and constant campaigning about class envy and
income inequality. Try as he might, however, his millstone continues
to haunt him.
The president now has at least 11 state attorneys-general
brining suit against him before the courts to curb his overextended
power grab to abolish the separation of power between the three
branches of government. The one facet found (after politicians read
the law to find out what was in it) in the Obamacare law the HHS is
touting provides contraceptive requirements that go against
religious, moral beliefs; it is but one of many attacks on
Americans. His efforts toward redirection of attention on his
centerpiece law will not turn the heads of Americans who are living
proof of its misery.
