Rick Santorum at CPAC on this birth control kerfuffle:
… And he hammered Mr. Obama for policies that he said had undermined the country’s future and the liberty of its citizens. As an example, Mr. Santorum cited the president’s recent decision requiring that health insurance plans offered by religious-affiliated hospitals, universities and charities provide female employees with access to free birth control.
“It’s not about contraception,” Mr. Santorum said. “It’s about economic liberty. It’s about freedom of speech. It’s about freedom of liberty. It’s about government control of your lives, and it’s got to stop.”
Freedom of speech? Government control of your life? Freedom of liberty? What the hell is he talking about? This is completely about contraception. And are we really fighting about birth control in 2012? Is Eisenhower going to weigh in on this tonight in between “The Red Skelton Hour” and “Ozzie and Harriet?”
This is just embarassing for everyone. We can assassinate American citizens overseas at Presidential authority, or detain someone indefinitely without charging them, or bomb the bejeezus out of a soverign country as a “police action” without Congressional approval, but mandating that all employee-provided health insurance cover birth control (not abortions — BIRTH CONTROL) is an attack on “freedom of liberty”? I know you have to allow for a certain amount of craziness during the primaries, but at some point the conscious decision to focus on utter nonsense like this at the expense of the twenty billion debate-worthy issues that exist becomes something I have to hold against these candidates.
