On To The Next Hostage Situation

You would think our "moderate" GOP friends would take the hint and stop making hostage demands after the massive beatdown this week, but Very Serious Paul Ryan simply can't help himself, and the fanatical Republican crusade to punish the people who supported this President continues.  This week it's the return of the War on Women!

Since negotiations to avert a national default on the debt have shifted from the House to the Senate, Republicans in the lower chamber are still hoping to use the talks as “leverage” to limit women’s access to contraception. 

According to the Washington Post, in a private meeting with House Republicans Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) — who earlier this weak floated a compromise that would raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cuts to entitlement programs — railed against emerging Senate proposals and argued that the “House could not accept either a debt-limit bill or a government-funding measure that would delay the next fight until the new year”: 

According to two Republicans familiar with the exchange, Ryan argued that the House would need those deadlines as “leverage” for delaying the health-care law’s individual mandate and adding a “conscience clause” — allowing employers and insurers to opt out of birth-control coverage if they find it objectionable on moral or religious grounds — and mentioned tax and entitlement goals Ryan had focused on in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. 

Ryan’s speech appeared only to further rile up the conservative wing of the GOP conference, which has been agitating the shutdown strategy to try to tear apart the health-care law.

That's right folks, it's the return of the "conscience clause" (not to mention delaying the mandate that pays for Obamacare) and the GOP will never, ever, ever stop with the hostage taking until they are broken completely.

President Obama remains strong.