Not really<\/a>. Democrats are using a bait-and-switch to justify their \u201chave you no decency, sir\u201d hysterics.<\/p>\nTurns out the friend was prescribed oral contraceptives to treat a cyst condition but the insurance company won\u2019t pay for birth control. It\u2019s really a fight over what medicine is appropriate to treat a medical condition, very common in all health insurance plans. It has nothing to do with forcing the Catholic Church to perform abortions, which what the Democrats wrote into the Obamacare law and now are defending.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe insurance company won\u2019t pay for my medicine\u201d is completely different from \u201cThe Church won\u2019t pay for me to commit a sin.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Democrats didn\u2019t admit that up front; they played it as if this was about birth control to prevent pregnancies. Rush took their lies at face value and riffed on that. Now that the true story is coming out, Democrats complain he shot his mouth off without admitting they set him up with their lies.<\/p>\n
Bait-and-switch.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p>\n
Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To be fair to the Democrats, (falsely) claiming the GOP is coming for their contraceptives and fanning hysteria is the only campaign they have; Americans are not better off than they were four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: The third year law student at Georgetown who wanted to testify to Congress that taxpayers should pay the $100 per month her friend spends on birth control is . . . the victim here? Not really. Democrats are using a bait-and-switch to justify their \u201chave you no decency, sir\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26628,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26619\/revisions\/26628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}