"It profits me but little that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquillity of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life."

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Monday, February 13, 2012

Insight

From Legal Insurrection:


Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the New Hampshire Republican debate on January 7, brought up and harped on whether the candidates thought states could ban contraception?


Everyone, at least on our side of the aisle, shook their heads in disbelief as to why Stephanopoulos was bringing up the issue.  There was no active controversy over contraception, it wasn’t in the news, and there were far more pressing political issues, yet what seemed like an eternity of debate time was devoted to the subject at the insistence of Stephanopoulos.


It was, shall we say, something out of left field.

Well what do you know, about a month later the Obama administration proposes administrative rules under Obamacare which would require free contraception be provided even by religious institutions which oppose contraception on religious grounds.


It’s almost as if Stephanopoulos got the memo first. Unless, of course, you believe in coincidences.


When a high-ranking Democratic Party operative like George Stephanapoulos becomes a card-carrying member of the media elite and then somehow gets permitted to "moderate" a GOP Presidential primary debate, we should have known that the fix was in.  

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