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    Publisher's Note: Jim Bispo's weekly column appears in the Beaufort Observer.

    Here we go again. The conservatives (read Republicans) are taking a beating again. This time over the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby ruling. Just like they did when the Government got "shut down 221; a couple of years ago. As I recall the Reps passed a bill that would have kept most (virtually all) of the Government running. The Dems rejected it, let the Government shut down, and blamed the Reps for the shutdown. And they got away with it. Why the Reps seem to be unable to get out in front of the Dem "talking points machine is one of the great mysteries of the ages. It would seem that it never occurs to the Reps to get out in front of the Dems'"talking points". (e.g. Why haven't they been pounding the Dems for holding up all the legislation they have sent to the Senate instead allowing the Prez to place the blame for the "Do Nothing Congress" on them?? They seem to be unwilling (or unable) to get down into the trenches and scrap with the Dems. Trust me, when you have folks like Harry Reid, Charlie Schumer and others of that ilk against you, there is no alternative - unless you are willing to tolerate the unending volleys of disingenuous mud (i.e. Dem "Talking Points") heaped on you by the likes of those rascals and their sycophants.

    The Dem talking points - which are being repeated over and over - are telling all within earshot that the Hobby Lobby ruling is but on e more example of the Reps war on women. If they say it often enough and long enough, the uninformed among us will begin to believe it. "The Reps are not willing to allow women access to birth control". How the Dems can live with themselves after lying through their teeth like that will very likely always remain a mystery for a lot of us.

    As an aside, the Dems claim to support women and the women's movement. We hear the Prez telling us over and over that women must receive equal pay for performing equal work. We have been hearing that for the last five or six years. It is really too bad that in the White House women are paid about $10,000 less per year than their male counterparts. Of course we are not quite six years into the Anointed One's term, so it may be too early to expect improvement in that situation. Or maybe it is just another one of those things that don't "get better" just by talking about them... You have to do something besides talk to make things happen. If the Prez hasn't figured that out by now, you would think that one of his spear carriers - or the Washington Post - would have told him. But, alas...

    In any case, the Hobby Lobby case was not about contraception. It was about "pill induced abortion". Hobby Lobby did not argue against providing insurance for their employees that covered "contraceptives"; They objected to providing insurance that covered pills that would induce the abortion of fertilized eggs. Two different things....

    Lest there be any misunderstanding, contraception is, "tending or serving to prevent conception or impregnation". The foregoing from Dictionary.com. According to the same source, abortion is, "the removal of an embryo or fetus from the uterus in order to end a pregnancy". Clearly two different things. Yet the Dems in their seemingly unending effort to mislead the public lump them together and claim the Reps are waging a war on women. Give me a break...

    And speaking about abortion, does anyone remember how one of the final Dem votes required in order to pass Obamacare was obtained. It was based on a promise by the Anointed One that abortion would not be covered by Obamacare. (Of course, we must wonder whether even then believing anything the An ointed One said was a very smart thing to do.) It sounds like another of the Anointed Ones promises turns out to be not quite true (not even close as it turns out).. And now the Dems are "hammering" the Reps with it... And the Reps seem to be letting then get away with it.. Go figure...

    Job 1 for the Reps is to get the government back while there is still enough of it to salvage. They must begin to place the blame for the gridlock where it belongs, with Harry Reid who controls what happens in the Senate and the anointed One who doesn't seem to have it in him to talk with and deal in good faith with the Reps in the congress. I suppose you can't really blame him for not wanting to negotiate. He surely realizes that his "horse trading" ability on a scale of one to ten is somewhere between zero and minus 3 (based on his deals with Putin over Syria or trading five high ranking Taliban Commanders interned at GITMO for one GI who reportedly willingly wandered away from his base in Afghanistan). The rationale given by the Anointed One was that "We don't leave anyone behind..". He seems to have (conveniently??) forgotten that "We do not."

    The other day I saw the Anointed One on TV bad mouthing the Reps over their Obamacare votes. He said that if they got their way there would be 30 million folks who would not be able to get health insurance. It was less than a month earlier that the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that even with the full implementation of Obamacare there will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 million folks without health insurance coverage. I suppose we can only wonder they are talking about the same 30 million folks or if the real total is 60 million. More than likely it is the same 30 million. It has been too long ago to blame "W" for the lack of coverage so the best that the Anointed One can do is lay it on the Reps. because they don't buy into the madness called Obamacare. It is certainly difficult to believe that the Reps. don't "push back" when the Anointed One (or his henchmen) show how disingenuous they can be. The Anointed One's 30M comment doesn't even qualify as a "plausible lie". And BTW does anyone remember that in the beginning 30M folks did not have health insurance coverage and that it was those 30M who provided the justification for Obama Care to begin with ?? So we start out to solve a 30M problem and end up with a 30M (or maybe 60M) problem. They may be a different 30M, but if they are, the situation is even worse than it seemed... Go figure...

    It is time for the Reps to take the initiative for keeping the public informed what is going on and laying the blame for the lack of any substantive accomplishments just where it belongs - with the Dems...

    Clearly, when you have a Prez like the Anointed One and a Senate Majority Leader like Harry Reid, you have a government run by folks that streets are named after - One Way...

    The voters need to fix that in November...

    D'ya Think??
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