The GOP and the church

Okay, Obama started it, first with the national health care bill and more recently with the demand that birth control, including the morning after pill, be provided by all health care insurance. That being said, the Blunt Amendment to allow employers to opt out of birth control requirements as a matter of conscience was as much "Right Wing Social Engineering" (Thanks, Newt) as the Obama rule was "Left Wing Social Engineering."

These things can and should be regulated by the states. It is good that the Blunt Amendment failed, in my view, but it is unfortunate that the current Administration ruling on birth control will likely have to go to court to get resolved.

I am not opposed to some sort of Federal guidelines for a catastrophic health care provision, without the mandate requiring folks to sign on, but the current liberal love health care plan is not affordable and plays too much into personal rights. Had the Administration proposed a tax to cover the healthcare plan without the mandate, they would have been on solid constitutional grounds. There was no way that such a tax would have passed even the most liberal congress of all time, however, so we got the mandate. The only way that the mandate to be insured can be considered constitutional is to consider it a tax. personally, I would like to see that pinned on this Administration and the forces of Reid and Pelosi.