Roy 'the Bluntinator' Blunt: “I will be back,” Blunt said
Reid blocks effort to repeal birth control rule, tells opponents to "calm down"
by Audrey Hudson
“(Democrats) won’t allow those of us who were sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution to even offer an amendment that says we believe in our First Amendment right to religious freedom. I never thought I’d see the day,” McConnell responded.
Senate Republicans on Thursday were blocked from offering legislation to repeal the Obama administration’s rule requiring religious organizations to provide free birth control through insurance coverage.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called the lawmakers’ efforts “senseless” and said they needed to “calm down” and wait until the controversial regulation is finalized before trying to stop it.
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) tried to add an amendment that has bipartisan support to a transportation bill being debated on the floor, but Reid blocked the maneuver because he said the language was not germane to the legislation.
“I appreciate that the Republicans take every opportunity… to mess up a good piece of legislation,” Reid said.
“The rule hasn't even been finalized yet. Let's at least wait until there is a final rule. Everybody should calm down, let see what transpires,” Reid said.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Reid said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed that he had never seen anything like this before, but for a different reason.
“(Democrats) won’t allow those of us who were sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution to even offer an amendment that says we believe in our First Amendment right to religious freedom. I never thought I’d see the day,” McConnell responded.
“I’ve spent a lot of time in my life defending the First Amendment. But I never thought I’d see the day when the elected representatives of the people of this country would be blocked by a majority party in Congress to even express their support for it.”
Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington earlier in the day, McConnell vowed to “fight this attack on the fundamental right to religious freedom until the courts overturn it or we’ve got a president who will reverse it.”
The floor skirmish came as two key Democratic Senators publicly broke with the president to publicly oppose the rule, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida.
The White House said they would give religious institutions a year to comply with the rule, which Blunt said makes their actions “even more offensive.”
“The idea that you could change your religious beliefs in a year, or a lifetime, because some federal regulator says you need to, is unbelievably offensive in our country based on the principles that we hold most dear in the Constitution itself,” Blunt said.
Blunt said he was disappointed the Democratic leader blocked his amendment, but said this won’t be last time Republicans will try and move legislation on the floor to reverse the decision.
“I will be back,” Blunt said
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Barack Hussein Obama II: Look at them, bloody Catholics, filling the bloody world up with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What are we dear?
Barack Hussein Obama II: Protestant, and fiercely proud of it.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Hmm. Well, why do they have so many children?
Barack Hussein Obama II: Because... every time they have sexual intercourse, they have to have a baby.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: But it's the same with us, Barack .
Barack Hussein Obama II: What do you mean?
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Well, I mean, we've got two children, and we've had sexual intercourse twice.
Barack Hussein Obama II: That's not the point. We could have it any time we wanted.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Really?
Barack Hussein Obama II: Oh, yes, and, what's more, because we don't believe in all that Papist claptrap, we can take precautions.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What, you mean... lock the door?
Barack Hussein Obama II: No, no. I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church, which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue
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Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What d'you mean?
Barack Hussein Obama II: I could, if I wanted, have sexual intercourse with you...
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Oh, yes, Barack .
Barack Hussein Obama II: ...and, by wearing a rubber sheath over my old feller, I could insure... that, when I came off, you would not be impregnated.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Ooh.
Barack Hussein Obama II: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas...
[sniff]
Barack Hussein Obama II: ... and, Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no. I can wear French Ticklers if I want.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: You what?
Barack Hussein Obama II: French Ticklers. Black Mambos. Crocodile Ribs. Sheaths that are designed not only to protect, but also to enhance the stimulation of sexual congress.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Have you got one?
Barack Hussein Obama II: Have I got one? Uh, well, no, but I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Barack 's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, 'Barack , I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant.'
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Well, why don't you?
Barack Hussein Obama II: But they - Well, they cannot, 'cause their church never made the great leap out of the Middle Ages and the domination of alien Episcopal supremacy
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