Before a House subcommittee Tuesday, AG Holder affirmed that the Justice Department will indeed defend against any legal challenge to Obamacare's HHS mandate forcing employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience. Here's Holder's response to being asked about whether the new rule would be defended, even though it's a violation of religious liberty:
“I think I would respectfully disagree in the sense that I don’t think the rule that HHS promulgated was one that ran counter to the religious prohibitions that are contained in the First Amendment. That’s especially true looking at the compromise the president and Secretary [Kathleen] Sebelius put in place. To the extent that that action is challenged in court, I would expect that the Justice Department would defend what is in place, which would be that compromise.”
This so-called 'compromise' is in reference to that accommodation that the majority of the offended parties did NOT agreed to.
Holder has created some other congressional fireworks throughout yesterday and today: first with the Fast & Furious scandal by not only refusing to call it a mistake, but not stopping it (despite Holder's contrarian view); and secondly, continuing to pursue his racial charged assertions that voter ID laws are 'harmful' (to cheats, certainly!).
CNSNews: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told a House panel Tuesday that the private health care market was in a “death spiral,” and that had nothing to do with the passage the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
Yeah, it's all just a silly coincidence...it couldn't be that the purpose has always been to get to single-payer now could it?
When Energy Secretary Stephen Chu was asked if the overall goal of his department was to lower the price of gas, the House Appropriations Committee received this stark response:
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy. We think that if you consider all these energy policies, including energy efficiency, we think that we can go a long way to becoming less dependent on oil and [diversifying] our supply and we’ll help the American economy and the American consumers.”
These are the bad lieutenants of a worse boss, who could care less about our Constitution or economy, folks. Trying to imagine an additional four years of this is, well, unimaginable.
ADDENDUM: Just a quick note (because if I tried to keep this post updated, it would be a mile long with these people!), on Thursday, Sebelius made yet another ridiculous statement practically saying that a decrease in human beings would cover the cost of the Obamacare contraception mandate. So basically, the more preganancies Big Government can prevent (and this is where her logic is also applied to abortion), the more money they could seize to sink into their social engineering schemes. How sanctified.
