This is only a partial reading of the HHS announcement. The goal is to put off any implementation until after the election. The 90 day listening period is only the start. After that there will be internal HHS discussions and proposals and more listening periods. After Obama is reelected there will be a very minor change in the original mandate and it will become law. Mike Barone is one of the few who have continually written about Obama’s strategy of pushing any important, controversial, or possible damaging decision to after November when they will no longer be in a position to damage him and where he will be able to implement the entire prog agenda with impunity. This is why the total ineptitude shown by the GOP in Congress and its POTUS candidates will enshrine this present GOP in an exalted place in an American Hall of Shame.
"The goal is to put off any implementation until after the election. The 90 day listening period is only the start. "
You're absolutely right. Barry has no intention of backing down but he'll try to put the actual implementation off until after the election, particularly if he can do so in a way that all his fascist supporters recognize as a typical bureaucratic game. Barry is hell bent on seeing this through to the Supreme Court so he will get some sort of ruling that sets limits on what will be defined as a religious objection. Once he has a ruling, anyone they don't like can be wrapped up in court for years trying to fight every little technicality they quietly introduce the same way people are not lost in the EPA maze over nearly anything someone wants to use to force others into court.
They have to have some sort of ruling that limits them in order to justify the next few steps of BarryCare, if you think about it. They can't just start off demanding that they know what your religion is and when you change from one approved church to another, so they have to have some good reason to "need" that information and losing over this issue in court gives them exactly the sort of reason to collect that information that they really want.
The goal is that anyone not a registered member of one of a government sanctioned (approved, recognized, whatever . . . ) religion will be unable to claim a religious objection to anything. Forcing people to wear a Star of David, Cross, or Crucifix, armband would be a bad PR move, but the democrat fascists want exactly that sort of religious information at their fingertips. Having "Christian", or "Mooze Lame", "Baptist", "Catholic", and so on, encoded on your Drivers' License or the wonderful new electronic medical ID they'll no doubt soon be promoting is critical to their long term eugenics goals.
Of course, they'll insist that the court ruling striking down their abortion mandate is "forcing" them to collect such information to ensure that they don't infringe your religious freedom if you're in the hospital. Once it's legally required, though, it'll be part of part and parcel of the automated care rationing process.
JMHO
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