Paul Ryan (R-WI) is holding the government hostage in exchange for control of every uterus in America

Paul Ryan (R-WI) is holding the government hostage in exchange for control of every uterus in America

Since negotiations to avert a national default on the debt have shifted from the House to the Senate, Republicans in the lower chamber are still hoping to use the talks as “leverage” to limit women’s access to contraception.

According to the Washington Post, in a private meeting with House Republicans Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — who earlier this weak floated a compromise that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to entitlement programs — railed against emerging Senate proposals and argued that the “House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year”:

    According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as “leverage” for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause” — allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds — and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

    Ryan’s speech appeared only to further rile up the conservative wing of the GOP conference, which has been agitating the shutdown strategy to try to tear apart the health-care law.

The Affordable Care Act stipulates that employers and insurers must provide no-cost contraception coverage as part of their health care plans and exempts churches and religious nonprofits that primarily employ people of the same faith from the requirement. In a compromise between Catholic groups and the White House, religiously affiliated colleges, universities, and hospitals that wish to avoid providing birth control can also opt out of offering the benefits, while their employees receive contraception coverage at no additional cost sharing directly from the insurer.

Republicans, however, are not satisfied with the accommodation and have tried to expand the so-called conscience clause, permitting any employer or insurance plan to exclude health services, no matter how essential, from coverage if they morally object to it.

In the last week of budget negotiations, some in the GOP have walked back their demand to fully defund the Affordable Care Act and have instead offered relatively small changes to the Affordable Care Act. But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who is now leading the negotiations with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the White House, insists that changes to the health care law are off the table.

By all means let's have a “conscience clause” for everything: you're vegetarian, then using the conservative view on conscience you can deny your employees that part of their paycheck they spend on meat. If you are a catholic employer you can pay your Protestant and Jewish employees less because their religion is morally objectionable. According to conservative "conscience" if you do not approve of drinking beer, you can refuse to insure anyone who drinks beer. When conservatives say they're for "personal "freedom" they're just joking. What they believe in is the freedom to impose every weirdo freaky thing they believe in on everyone else - kind of like the Communist party in China or the rulers of Iran.

Wacky Conservative David Marsters of Sabattus, Maine Has a Mouth But No Brain or American Values

Wacky Conservative David Marsters of Sabattus, Maine Has a Mouth But No Brain or American Values

David Marsters, a conservative candidate for a town position in Sabattus, Maine, was surprised by a visit from the Secret Service after he posted an article on his Facebook about President Obama along with the words “Shoot the ni**er.” But even after the Secret Service visit, Marsters continues to defend his comment as freedom of speech — although he deleted the original posting.

“[They] didn’t see no pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head,” Marsters said. “It’s not a threatening statement, in my opinion. People take it out of context as a threat.” Marsters maintains his comment isn’t racist, because “white people are ni**ers, too.” In addition to subscribing to the conspiracy that Obama faked his birth certificate, Marsters has pushed for a town law to require a gun in every house.

Marsters told the Bangor Daily News that he is worried Obamacare will take his and his wife Mary’s health insurance away at a time she has been in and out of the hospital. “I’m pissed off at the system, OK,” he said. “We’re about to lose our benefits because of this asshole.”

Losing spousal insurance is a common myth about Obamacare. For example, the headlines blamed Obamacare when UPS recently announced it would cut 15,000 spouses of employees from insurance coverage. However, experts note that Obamacare simply provides an excuse for UPS to cut its overall health costs. Indeed, this type of cost-shifting was a trend long before Obamacare became law. UPS’ move actually only affects spouses who have jobs that provide coverage, which will become more common when Obamacare fully kicks in.

The health care law, in fact, is good news for Marsters’ wife. If either did lose insurance, they would be able to purchase individual plans on the statewide market, while subsidies could help reduce the cost. And because of Obamacare, insurance companies cannot discriminate based on Mary or Marsters’ pre-existing conditions.

Despite the vitriol surrounding the law, its individual provisions are actually quite popular among conservatives. Yet sometimes they only realize how Obamacare protects them when they or loved ones fall ill.

American values like honor and truth, like the rest of the fake birth certificates freaks, David Marsters will have none of that. he believes he and his wife are going to lose their medical benefits. Some people still believe the earth and flat and the flat earthers claim they can prove it. Marsters is not mentally capable of comprehending the truth so how is that he feels he can rant and wave with any integrity. he looks to be of retirement age - it would not surprise me if he and his wife were getting liberal government benefits like Medicare or Medicaid. Dave? Do you know what the words lying two faced hypocrite mean?

Note that of hundreds of lawsuit claiming that Obama's birth certificate is a fake, the freaks who have brought those law suits have lost every time. Even the Supreme Court with a conservative majority will not hear appeals because nut cases like Marsters have no evidence. making stuff up is not evidence.