I will agree that Greenwald is a far more sophisticated and clever deceiver than Hannity et al, but he is still a dishonest hack.

NDAA FAQ: A Guide for the Perplexed
Greenwald also writes glowingly about racists running from POTUS, and therefore I have no time to listen to his chicanery.

You may be right. But it may be that many Obama voters, non church attenders, will not like their Church being forced into this position. It may be that any non-Catholics will be concern about the same thing.

There are, I hope, millions who value the first amendment. The questions include, "How concerned will this action make these millions?" As well as " How many Catholic will resent this action as an attack on their Church."?

If you are right, "opponents of the Obama administration on this issue are overwhelmingly likely to be GOP voters that he would never swing to his side " that could still leave 10% of the Catholic voters among those who voted for Obama and opposes Obama's "attack" against their church. A fraction, say 1/3, of these would represent about 0.6% of the US population.
How many state's electoral votes could be changed by 0.6%?

Of course it will be more complicated than that. Different areas have far higher/lower percentages of Catholics than other areas. Some states, many in the south, will not be effected much . Other in the rust belt will be effected more. Some groups, Hispanics for one, may be effected more/less than others.

I just do not see this as having a simple to call result for 2012.

I mean, I did skim the article earlier, and I read the last one someone here posted.

In the linked article, Greenwald says that NDAA authorizes indefinite detention of US civilians, which it does not.

Greenwald also states that Obama is assassinating US civilians, which is nonsense. You lose your US citizenship when you conspire to wage war on the US and then hide-out in Yemen. al-Awlaki's son was not targeted for assassination.

lol at the republicans trying to turn the birth control thing into a controversy. On one hand they're trying to change the conversation now the economy is starting to turn around. On the other hand they're massively on the wrong side of things here anyway.

Dumb conspiracy idea ofne day........Obama had the contraception requirement passed to bolster Frothy and push Romney even further right.........any takers?

That's exactly what they did. Also, when Rodney was governor in Massatutes he ordered Catholic hospitals to provide the morning after pill to rape victims. Frothy has already attacked Rodney on the similarities of Romneycare and Obamacare, this is justice more ammo.

If they don't build the Keystone pipeline, would not Canada have to build the refineries in Canada. If they do that they will flood the U.S. market with cheap gasoline.

If they ship it to the gulf it becomes an international commodity, thus they can ship it to China if they want to manipulate prices. You go to rural Wyoming or Montana and they have some of the cheapest gas prices in the country.

Greenwald stays gettin dem ******s mad.

Obama doing nothing again.

Deal to bring billions in mortgage relief

First new nuclear reactors OK'd in over 30 years

REINFLATE THAT BUBBLE!

Was quite pleased to read about the nuclear plant.

Agreed. I think nuclear has to be part of the equation in the future as fossil fuels start to run out (I don't think we will ever move off of fossil fuels due to global warming concerns, at least in next decade or so). Nuclear, despite multile accidents, is still better than coal plants (from the mining to the emissions), natural gas (from the drilling to the emissions).

Renewables won't be able to completely take over, it has to be in tandem with nuclear IMO.

The idea of a nuclear meltdown is pretty damn terrifying (SimCity did not help me on this one) but all in all it has to be used.

I like that it is in California too. Stop sucking up WA cheap electricity.

Quiet you before we take "the 5" away and keep it all to ourselves.

If you would take some traffic I would gladly call the road something different.

I too am happy to see the nuke stuff. Key component of our energy policy in the decades to come.

"Moving away from fossil fuels in order to address climate change is the biggest challenge facing our power sector, and safe nuclear power will be an important part of that solution," Richard Caperton, director of clean energy investment at the left-leaning Center for American Progress said in a statement.

Obama is supposed to change course on his birth control/abortion pill mandate today.

Any predictions on what he does? How will it play?

It's out. He is going to make the insurance companies pay for it. It's a back door way of making it more beneficial to women. All the aggregators have it up now.

Obviously someone has to pay for birth control. Women paying for their own birth control just isn't fair.

^At least the part that their employer isn't covering.

OK? And the women do work for their employer in exchange for the employer offering that benefit. I mean, if I get in a car accident, and my insurance company pays for a new car for me, is that a "free pony?" If my insurance includes roadside assistance and I use it to get a jump start, is that a free pony? OMG SOCIALISM!

Yeah, employer insurance coverage is a form of payment.

"This ObamaCare rule still tramples on Americans' First Amendment right to freedom of religion," Jordan said in a written statement. "It's a fig leaf, not a compromise. Whether they are affiliated with a church or not, employers will still be forced to pay an insurance company for coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs."

lol @ "abortion-inducing drugs." this is 2012. how it's not absolute political suicide for anyone to take this stance when HALF of the country are women is beyond me. like, what woman isn't for birth control? other than 65 year old grannies on a plantation in alabama?

lol who has employer-paid insurance coverage?