Sandra Fluke, Are You Kidding Me?

Lest my readership of, say, ten, become bored with my rants, I do not post often but on the heels of my letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu I can’t stop myself from telling you of a current topic high on the disgusto-meter.

Sandra Fluke is a student at Georgetown University who believes that she should have all the sex she wants and I should pay for it…whether or not I am one of the lucky(?) many who tries to satisfy her appetite. Georgetown University, a Jesuit school, refuses to cover birth control in the medical insurance program that university offers to students. Absolutely in their rights despite what you tyrants think, Nancy (Botox) Pelosi and Barack (His Highness) Obama. The Left wanted a Federal House hearing on this issue, the Republicans would not conduct the hearing so Botox held her own hearing with plenty of cameras drooling over the opportunity for sleazy vilificaton of the Christian Right.

Fluke made her case that in order for her to have all the sex she wants, the university must be forced to pay for her birth control, whether or not it violates the institution’s religious beliefs. I have to assume that Fluke knows she could insist that her troupe bring condoms, she could supply them, or she could attend another university. In a country that still “gives permission” for its citizens to make choices, there are no alternatives to “free” birth control that are suitable to her? Clearly she is well known on the campus since a quote from the University president suggests he knows her personally (likely not sexually). Whether or not she wears many causes does not matter EXCEPT that it paints her less of a victim when the conservative press takes her to task.

So, we have staged public “dialogue” between a disgraceful legislator, Botox, and a prepared and willing victim of the religious right. Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut.” (LIMBAUGH HAS SINCE APOLOGIZED FOR THAT CHARACTERIZATION) I avoid that word since it is a derogatory term for a woman who loves sex with multiple partners and this guy sees nothing wrong with that. On the other hand she is NOT a victim of a vicious right-wing press. In fact, she is not a victim of anything. Convention in politics is that once you expose yourself as a public personality you lose much of your right to go after hostile people for slander or libel – or to act the victim - and if she did not present herself as a representative of some fraction of the public I would eat my hat. I say “would” because I don’t own a hat.

His Highness called her personally (I would not have accepted the call from His Highness and nor would I have had a beer with His Highness were I the “behaving badly” New Haven police officer of past news) and actually asked her, get this, “Are you okay”? Are you kidding me? First off, I don’t care if she is “okay” and while His Highness stated publicly that we must learn and practice civil discourse, look at what happened to Joe The Plumber who spoke out against Obama at a carefully if flawed arranged town hall meeting. The IRS had coffee with him (that is a euphemism); his background was investigated by the FBI. Conservatives, for their utterances, are called “baby killers” and claimed to hope that old people can learn to eat dog food. Yet this bleeding heart activist is supposed to take a public stand on a controversial issue in a bath of respect and admiration for her courage?

Yeah, right.

I don’t normally listen to Rush; he is an icon but I don’t think he is very bright. Nevertheless while he might have used a word other than “slut” I have no problem at all with him taking her, Botox and His Highness to task over this charade.

Buy your own damn birth control. If you can afford a $50,000 per year law degree education, you can afford a few hundred dollars a year in condoms…or demand that your troupe provide their own. Or if you choose not to prevent pregnancy, preferring to kill the fetus later on, I can find the address of the Planned Parenthood near you.

Harry Truman got it right: “If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Get out of The Kitchen”!

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