{"id":184715,"date":"2012-02-07T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/and-while-we-are-talking-about-white-house-spelunking\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:34:00","slug":"and-while-we-are-talking-about-white-house-spelunking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/07\/and-while-we-are-talking-about-white-house-spelunking\/","title":{"rendered":"And While We Are Talking About White House Spelunking\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the White House is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/02\/07\/axelrod-suggests-white-house-could-back-down-on-birth-control\/\">preparing to cave to the Conference of Catholic Bishops on reproductive rights<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A top adviser to President Barack Obama\u2019s re-election campaign suggested on Tuesday that the administration was open to working with Catholic hospitals and universities over their objections to providing birth control services to women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m less concerned about the messaging of this than to find a resolution that makes sense,\u201d David Axelrod said on MSNBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard earlier Joe [Scarborough] say, \u2018Well, there may be compromises that can be reached.\u2019 We have great respect for the work that these religious institutions do. \u2026 We certainly don\u2019t want to abridge anyone\u2019s religious freedoms, so we\u2019re going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventative care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions,\u201d he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeebus.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like capitulation is so firmly engrained in their DNA that they can&#8217;t stand their ground even when it is to their advantage to do so. <\/p>\n<p>These days, the Catholic Bishops is as likely to support Democrats as the Chamber of Commerce, so all you are doing is pissing off your base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the White House is preparing to cave to the Conference of Catholic Bishops on reproductive rights: A top adviser to President Barack Obama\u2019s re-election campaign suggested on Tuesday that the administration was open to working with Catholic hospitals and universities over their objections to providing birth control services to women. \u201cI\u2019m less &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,978,1150,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}