Republicans are now backing Obamacare

I smell Bullshit
We are told Republicans oppose Obamacare, but something smells funny.

• One by one Republicans are falling in line to support Socialist Obamacare in order to get their hands on a mighty flow of Federal dollars.
• Did the GOP oppose Obamacare only because they and their financial backers were not included in dividing the giant pot of Obamacare cash?

Bullshit Alert  -  Republicans around the nation are starting to love Obamacare and the billions in Federal dollars that comes with it.  After all, supporting Big Government is standard for the GOP.  Under George Bush a GOP Congress massively expanded Medicare.

"Small government" Republican Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona is the third Republican governor to accept Obamacare’s optional expansion of the Medicaid program. The governor’s decision to expand Medicaid will extend health coverage to an additional 30,000 previously uninsured Arizonans.

GOP Gov. Jan Brewer is now
supporting Obamacare.

In a speech on Monday, Brewer explained that expanding Medicaid is the right financial decision for Arizona because the federal government will reimburse states for the cost of expansion.

Brewer joins New Mexico Gov. Sususan Martinez (R) and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval (R), who were the first GOP leaders to agree to expand Medicaid in their states.

The Religious Court Battle Goes On

Comrade Obama’s mandate that most private companies provide health insurance plans that include free contraceptives has met with considerable headwinds in the legal system, where nine of the 14 federal courts to rule so far have sided with employers who say the mandate violates their beliefs and infringes on their religious liberties.

The Obama contraception mandate upsets religious groups.  But I am willing to bet if that portion of the law is struck down those same religious groups would be lining up to shovel Obamacare dollars into their bank accounts.

That funny smell is Republicans supporting Obamacare.
Religious based groups are fighting Obamacare
free contraceptives, but many Republicans can only
see the billions in new
 Federal cash coming to their states.

“I think the case is probably heading for the Supreme Court,” said Timothy Jost, a health care scholar at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. “We already have a split in the circuits.”

The birth control coverage mandate has been a flashpoint since it was announced a year ago.

The Washington Times says that under the new rules, all employers with the exception of actual religious houses of worship have to pay for — or make available through an outside insurer — contraceptive coverage for employees as part of their insurance plans, including such items as the “morning-after pill,” sterilizations and other treatments to which the Catholic Church, many evangelicals and other religions object.

Religiously-affiliated charities and schools immediately objected to the regulations put out by the Department of Health and Human Services, as did some devout business owners, and more than 40 challenges are winding their way through the courts, according to the Becket Fund for Religious Freedom, which is helping with many of the lawsuits.

So far none of the courts have reached a decision on the merits of the cases, but the key question with which judges appear to be grappling is whether a corporation other than a church can be said to “exercise” religion and enjoy constitutional protections for freedom of worship.

A federal judge in Colorado posed the query last month in an order that granted a heating, ventilation and air conditioning company a temporary reprieve from the mandate.

The plaintiffs in the cases range from construction firms to Christian bookstores, and are owned by Catholics, evangelicals and even Mennonites.

“It’s way beyond a Catholic issue,” Becket Fund spokeswoman Emily Hardman said, noting the heavy involvement of Protestant organizations. “These are devout pro-life institutions.”

(Washington Times)

Gandhi's non-violence, non-cooperation speech

For Socialism to operate it needs the active help of everyone below the level of the White House.  Republicans in Congress and at the state levels simply need to refuse to vote one cent to fund Obamacare or any of the required Socialist legislation to make it run.  

But it looks more and more like that will not happen.  After all, there are billions of "free" Federal dollars just waiting to be gathered, and GOP business groups cannot wait to get their share.