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talkpolitics2012-02-16 09:28 am
paft.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2012-02-16 09:28 am
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Men in Black
Here is a picture from today's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing about the Obama administration's birth control mandate:
The first row are the allowed witnesses.
All those people a couple rows behind them? Well... those witnesses just don't fit in.
That's why most of the Democratic women on the committee walked out of the room.
Just now, Oklahoma GOP representative Jim Lankford implied that these men in black were being "berated" by the committee. In fact, they've mostly been getting strokes just short of full-body massages from most of the remaining committee members. This hearing is such a transparent and over-the-top, right wing extremist attack on the administration (one Representative invoked those dastardly laws against smoking in public buildings as a sign of the slippery slope the administration has set up) that clips from it should be used by Democrats in the upcoming election.
I cannot imagine any reasonable and honest person watching this hearing and not being appalled.
Partially crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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The first row are the allowed witnesses.
All those people a couple rows behind them? Well... those witnesses just don't fit in.
That's why most of the Democratic women on the committee walked out of the room.
Just now, Oklahoma GOP representative Jim Lankford implied that these men in black were being "berated" by the committee. In fact, they've mostly been getting strokes just short of full-body massages from most of the remaining committee members. This hearing is such a transparent and over-the-top, right wing extremist attack on the administration (one Representative invoked those dastardly laws against smoking in public buildings as a sign of the slippery slope the administration has set up) that clips from it should be used by Democrats in the upcoming election.
I cannot imagine any reasonable and honest person watching this hearing and not being appalled.
Partially crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Human sacrifice and ritual drug consumption are NOT the same.
And what makes religion about chaos and confusion any more or less religious than that about a man who raised the dead or walked on water?
Kooky religions are all kooky. Is Fred Phelps really more protected than I am, just cause his God shares a name with your God?
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Are you trying to distract me from the Mormon issue?
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im bringing it home
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Neither are illegal drug consumption and contraception, which is the distraction that was injected into this debate and you were trying to defend.