Watching Mark Steyn go after Sandra Fluke is almost, but not quite enough for me to take pity on her:
…the most basic issue here is not religious morality, individual liberty, or fiscal responsibility. It’s that a society in which middle-aged children of privilege testify before the most powerful figures in the land to demand state-enforced funding for their sex lives at a time when their government owes more money than anyone has ever owed in the history of the planet is quite simply nuts.
…Insane as this scenario is, the Democrat-media complex insists that everyone take it seriously. When it emerged the other day that Amanda Clayton, a 24-year-old Michigan million-dollar-lottery winner, still receives $200 of food stamps every month, even the press and the bureaucrats were obliged to acknowledge the ridiculousness. Yet the same people are determined that Sandra Fluke be treated with respect as a pioneering spokesperson for the rights of the horizontally challenged.
Like him, I pass.
I’ve noticed this has sat for a couple of days with no comment. Mostly because Rand’s headline is correct about Steyn vs Fluke, and that Steyn is correct:
Yet the same people are determined that Sandra Fluke be treated with respect as a pioneering spokesperson for the rights of the horizontally challenged.
There is nothing about Ms. Fluke to respect. She’s begging for the government to provide for her bedroom activities, while she affords a law school degree at an expensive University in an expensive market.
And Democrats picked a bad time to roll her out just ahead of Spring Break, where many family with wanted pregnancies now have children to entertain with gas prices at or above $4 a gallon. Do you know what else you can purchase at any convenience store, pharmacy store, or grocery store for about $4 a box? These families are not sympathetic to Ms. Fluke’s concerns.