A wave of conservatives, Catholic leaders, even typically media-shy nuns is building to crash on President Obama’s insurance birth-control mandate, raising the likelihood that Obamacare will join the economy and jobs as the top issues in the 2012 election. On multiple fronts, foes of the president’s insurance birth control demand are organizing into cooperating groups, some to run ads against the president’s initiative and re-election campaign, and others to lobby Congress to block his new mandate. And 12 interest groups, including anti-abortion interests and doctors, on Monday filed a brief with the Supreme Court backing repeal of the president’s overall health reform program.
Some of the foes coming together to fight the president are big names in the conservative world. Brent Bozell, chairman of the Media Research Center and the anti-Obamacare group For America, has gathered 42 critics so far, including former Attorney General Edwin Meese, former Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie, and Tea Party founders Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin. The University of Notre Dame’s Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has another list of 100 opponents, including the president of Catholic University.
