Democrats plan on making Hobby Lobby their midterm message

Hotair ^ | 07/10/2014 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

So says Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn, but color me skeptical. Not of Haberkorn’s reporting on the subject, which accurately takes the temperature of the rhetoric from the Left, but of the bravado coming from Capitol Hill Democrats in the dog days of July. Democrats claim they want to make a midterm fight over a relatively narrow Supreme Court decision that doesn’t restrict access to contraception in any way as a means to fire up their “war on women” rhetoric and turn out their base in what looks like a dismal election cycle:

With an eye on the November elections, congressional Democrats on Wednesday introduced a bill that would overturn the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby contraception decision.

Democrats and women’s health groups believe they have a powerful campaign weapon in pushing back on the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling that Hobby Lobby and other closely held for-profit companies don’t have to comply with the health law’s contraceptive coverage requirement if it violates the owners’ religious beliefs.

The bill was drafted by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a longtime women’s health advocate, and Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), who is up for reelection this year. Sen. Mark Begich, a Democrat up for reelection in Alaska, joined them at the press conference to release the bill. …

They’re framing it as the court allowing gender discrimination and putting bosses in charge of personal health decisions to use contraception, even when medicine is prescribed for nonreproductive reasons, such as to treat endometriosis. And they want to make sure Republicans have to answer whether they support it.

[Din Maker]

That would be a mistake. Remember the overwhelming support Chic-Fil-A Restaurants got from the General Public?

[Bubba_Leroy]

I predict that over 90% of the Republican candidates will do a poor job of handling this issue.

Dammit, but I know that you are right. And it is such an easy issue to handle too.

If you do not want businesses to be involved in their employees' birth control, then why are Democrats insisting on involving them? What employees want to go to their employers to buy birth control, especially when they can privately buy their own birth control for about $10 per month? Leave all businesses out of their employees' birth control decisions.

[maddogtiger]

Birth control pills provide no protection against any of over two dozen STD’s, many of them fatal. Condoms do . So why is the federal government subsidizing this high risk behavior?

[samtheman]

Was it George Will who said that the democrats are making it sound like there are armed guards outside of CVS keeping women from going in and filling BC prescriptions?

[molson209]

so the Demonuts have nothing for the next election

[cableguymn]

hard to counter something you agree with.

[samtheman]

It’s hard to counter anything when you go through life like the average GOP eunuch so afraid to offend anyone that they come off looking downright gay. In fact, the average gay guy has more balls than the average GOP pol.

GOP. Gay Old Party.

[kaehurowing]

More anti-Christian bigotry, pure and simple.

[livius]

This is an issue that stirs up the Dem base. I agree. That's why they're publicizing it so.