Obama "compromise" on contraception mandate is an insult

You may have heard that as part of the mandatory health insurance rammed down our throats a year ago, Obama had issued an edict requiring all employers to provide insurance that would pay for birth control--including the so-called "morning-after pill" that Catholics consider as equivalent to abortion.

Faced with this government decree--not a duly-passed law, but an edict--Catholics strongly objected. And the issue took off.

Now in a press conference, Obama has *allegedly* (according to the lying media) "compromised" on this diktat.

So under the alleged compromise, religious organizations won't have to pay to provide contraception to employees. Instead, Obama decrees that insurance companies will have to provide this service for free.

I don't know what's sadder: the arrogance or stupidity of any politician who thinks this alleged compromise will actually fool the public, or the absolute pig-ignorance of a politician who thinks demanding that a company provide something for free makes that true.

For those of you under 40 or so, or unfamiliar with the details of economics (which is a BIG club): If a good or service costs anything, demanding that a company provide it "for free" is like demanding that gravity stop. The demand obviously can't overrule reality.

All the demand or edict does is force companies to fund the cost from other revenue. To claim otherwise is on the level with babies who initially think that when they cover their eyes, objects cease to exist.

Sadly, half of the population will read the headlines and think this really is a brilliant compromise that substantively changes the effect of the edict.

And interestingly, a good percentage of Catholics will be in this group. You can already see the early indicators, as some of the bishops are commenting approvingly.