The HuffPost Religion article, "Obama Birth Control Mandate: Catholic Bishops Divided On Legal Battle" includes the following
quote:
"Blaire, a leading spokesman on social justice issues
as head of the domestic policy committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops, worried that the confrontational approach taken by the bishops was
being exploited by political groups 'very far to the right' who are trying to
use the conflict with the White House as 'an anti-Obama campaign.'"
Of course the far right-wing Republicans are exploiting this
move by the Roman Catholic Church! Is
this really a surprise to anyone??
Republican strategists are using every scare tactic possible to try to
get people to vote for Mitt Romney... and to be able to suggest that The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act interferes with religious beliefs, as they would say is
evidenced by the lawsuit brought by the Catholic Bishops, is just one more ploy
in their attempts to trick and maneuver people into casting a vote for Mr.
Romney without really looking carefully at his positions on the economy,
education, healthcare, or foreign policy, just to name a few of the issues the
President of the United States has to deal with as he governs our country.
Oh, wait a minute… we don't need to look too closely at Mr.
Romney’s ideas for governing the United States… because
he has already given us a pretty good idea where he stands…
On the economy: He’s
going “fix it”! He knows how to do this based on
his years of making money for venture capitalists at Bain… But I wonder for whom he will be trying to
make money as the President of the United States… Who or what will he try to divide up and sell
off? And to whom will he sell?
On education: He has
stated that he will get rid of the US Department of Education, or at least
merge it with other departments in the government… I mean who really needs a Department of
(Public) Education when everyone knows that Charter Schools (privately funded,
for profit schools) are the best way to go… right? Hmmm… privately funded, for profit schools… Does
that mean that in the future those people in our country who won’t be able to
afford it, will then no longer get an education? Not even a basic one? I can just see the US literacy rates
plummeting now… That ought to be really good for the United States…
On healthcare: He
will get rid of “Obama-care” (also known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act)!! The piece
of legislation that allows young people to stay on their parents’ health
insurance until the age of 26, saving them a great deal of money… The piece of legislation that will not allow insurance companies to charge more for women's coverage than men's coverage... The piece of
legislation that (now) does not allow insurance companies to limit or refuse
children insurance based on pre-existing illnesses, and that (by the year 2014)
will benefit all people in the same way… The piece of legislation that does not
allow insurance companies to drop someone from coverage at will…or because
they actually needed and used their health coverage… The piece of legislation that will help more
Americans be able to get affordable health coverage (it is called "The...Affordable
Care Act" for a reason)… And Mr. Romney would get rid of it. Thousands (millions?) of people in the United
States cannot afford health care now. Does this mean that Mr. Romney does not want Americans (all
Americans, not just the more affluent ones) to have access to affordable health
care? Sounds like it to me…
On foreign policy:
Well perhaps we don’t really need to worry too much about Mr. Romney’s
knowledge of foreign policy…after all, he is up on all the latest news… Why, just a couple of weeks back, he reminded us
just who the United States’ greatest enemy was…
Did you not catch the news that day?
I’ll fill you in… according to
Mr. Romney, America’s greatest enemy and threat is… Russia… Well, at least he didn’t say it was the now
non-existent USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republic), of which Russia was a
part… But then, for so many years Russia
was synonymous with the USSR… Maybe I do
need to be a little concerned about Mr. Romney’s ability to lead the United
States in the area of foreign policy after all…maybe we all do…
Ahhh… I am
sorry… I did get a little off topic. I started out this post to say that the Roman Catholic Church is being used by
the far right wing of the Republican Party to attempt to gain political momentum and scare
people into voting for Mr. Romney.
I guess I went down a Romney rabbit hole… I’m glad I’m back out of it… it is a little scary
to consider what the “Romney States of America” might be like in the future.
