Mandates Galore

First, President Obama orders religious institutions to offer insurance coverage for contraception to its employees, even though they object to providing such coverage on religious grounds - a clear violation of the religious freedom ensured by the Constitution.

Then, after much backlash, the President offers a "compromise," telling religious institutions that, while they still have to offer such coverage to their employees, the government will make the insurance company pay for the coverage, rather than the institution.  This second mandate forces a company to offer a product without being able to charge for it - basically, the insurance companies are being required to give people insurance for contraception for free.  This is akin to telling a car dealership that it must give cars to people for free because it furthers some goal the President finds beneficial to a specific group of people or the nation as a whole.

And, of course, there's the now-infamous Obamacare mandate that requires Americans who don't have insurance through an employer to purchase it on their own, and if they refuse, they are penalized by steep fines.

Flow Chart of Obamacare, or Definition of Bureaucracy

The concept of mandates as employed by this administration violates those principles on which this country was founded - namely, that people are free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness as they see fit.  These mandates significantly disturb that freedom by forcing people and companies to offer products for free, forcing companies to offer employees benefits they are religiously opposed to, and forcing people to buy a product they may not want.

The liberal media is doing its job of "PR wing of the democratic party" by not exposing these constitutional violations, and by embracing them as positive changes in the marketplace.

You can't force people to buy stuff; you can't force companies to offer benefits they object to on religious grounds; and you can't force companies to give away products for free.  But then, the Constitution is merely an inconvenient impediment to progress for Obama and his socialist party members.