[Op-Ed] It Is The Question, Not The Answer That Should Scare Us

There is one thing that I have noticed about the whole Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke contraception argument. People are managing to get around extremely important questions by focusing on minutiae that in the long run really don’t matter.

In an election year no conservative is ever hurt by taking the side of organized religion. The argument over religious institutions having to by policies that include contraception is one of the stupider ones that Republicans could take a stand against, and the Democratic President played them like a fiddle. If Obama had picked any other issue, he would have been forced to answer the one question that could have destroyed him.

That question is…Why is the President of The United States able to call up a private company and order them to cover anything? He is not empowered by the people or the Constitution. No No No he is empowered by Obamacare. Remember that silly little bill that a majority of America hates? The one that everyone promised would do nothing but allow the uninsured to get coverage?

Remember the supporters of Obamacare swearing that there would be no mandates, that it was a transparent bill, and that when people read it they would learn to love it?

Come on we all knew that was bull to begin with. The issue at hand now is strengthening the bill to play politics. Republicans could have seized on this immediately. Instead of feeling the need to stand up for churches who might have to offer birth control Republicans could have pointed out that exactly as promised the Executive Branch of government is now using Obamacare to mandate private industries to offer, and private individuals to accept things they don’t want. The argument now is over the specifics but not the overall question.

Now, if Moron Millionaire Mitt Romney becomes President in the fall, he will move to repeal the mandate that religious institutions offer birth control. He will work within the system to produce quick fix results that will help him with his party and constituents, but at the same time where is the true question? Why is a law that a majority of Americans are against forcing our leaders to discuss such stupid issues in the first place.

We live in serious times. The national debt is spiraling out of control. The government hasn’t passed a budget in more than three years and the spending bills they do pass are running a deficit of over a trillion dollars a year. Democrats still want to spend as much as they can on handouts to every constituency that could possibly ever vote for them, and Republicans still honestly believe that the country is buying their bullshit that the real way to economic liberty is to make sure the uber rich pay even less taxes.

Yet, what are our politicians debating in Congress? Whether a thirty year old student, who is attending one of the most expensive law schools in the country and is going to have an earning power of over $150,000 per year her first year out of school, should have to shell out the ten bucks a month for her birth control pills. Is she a slut or a prostitute as Rush Limbaugh suggested? Of course she isn’t. Is she a primary example of an entitled generation who feels that the entire country should have to pay for everything that any of them want because it may just be an inconvenience for them to pay for it themselves? You better believe it.

Sandra Fluke should never have been called before Congress because she didn’t realize that she was being used for a nefarious purpose well outside of her control. The Democratic Congressmen who asked for her testimony did so to pick a fight with the Republican party and to make organized religion (and the protection of it) an issue in a campaign where it shouldn’t be. The issues should be economic issues, the issue should be healthcare, the issue should be jobs and energy policy. Unfortunately the polls have been consistent that these issues are all losers for the Democratic party.

So they took this whiny crybaby Sandra Fluke and got her to appear in public and cry because she thinks the government (and by extension the taxpayers) should pay for her birth control because in her words it is a “real heavy expense for her”. Well Sandra so is internet access, so are my daughter’s diapers and formula. So is gas and college tuition. But at the same time no one is advocating the taxpayers pay for it because I find it to be difficult to make ends meet.

I hope she is happy with the result. Obama got his answer, and we all got to avoid asking some very important questions.