Senator Boxer is an idiot.

I like how she thinks that accusing someone of being a philosopher is a crushing indictment.

The new word for the day is "psittacism" - parroting words in order to strangle the possibility of actually thinking.

According to Ben Franklin, "“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”...

...but what about trading liberty for a $5 co-pay on condoms?

According to Democrat Barbara Boxer the "right to be insured trumps religious liberty."

The Washington Examiner reports:

Senator Boxer warned yesterday that if the HHS contraception mandate was repealed it would set a dangerous precedence of religious rights trumping the right to be insured.

On MSNBC's Politics Nation with Al Sharpton last night, Boxer affirmed that under the proposed amendment proposed by Sen. Roy Blunt, an employer would not be forced by the government to pay for medical practices against his religion.

"I mean, are they serious? Sharpton exclaimed, "How do you make a law where an employer can decide his own religious beliefs violate your right to be insured?"

"Oh absolutely," Boxer said, "Let's use an example, let's say somebody believes that medicine doesn't cure anybody of a disease but prayer does and then they decide no medicine.

"No medicine!" she exclaimed, "Under the Blunt amendment, they could do just that."

Senator Harry Reid announced yesterday that he would allow a vote on the Blunt Amendment. The vote allows Senate Democrats such as Robert Casey of Pennsylvania, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia to register a protest vote against the HHS contraception mandate.

You have to love how the "Reverend" Al Sharpton goes "all in" with respect to his support of Caesar's requirement that Catholics throw a pinch of incense at the idol of contraception.

Likewise, you have to marvel at how stupid Boxer is with her analogy about a religious person believing that medicine doesn't work but prayer does. OK, does this person believe that it is a mortal sin to pay for medicine? Probably not, but this person really and truly has a religious objection to paying for someone else's medical treatment, then maybe that person oughtn't be coerced into paying for medical insurance in violation of their core religious beliefs.

I mean, Jeepers, Barbara, there is this thing called "the First Amendment."

And by the way, this "right to insurance"...we can find this where in the Constitution?

Via Wintery Knight who writes:

Fascism is the ideology that states that the worldview of the government, especially on questions of religion, morality and meaning, should be pushed down onto individuals by force. The Democrat elites, including Obama, are pro-abortion. And now, they want to force you to be pro-abortion, too – by forcing you to subsidize the abortions of others, even if you have a conscientious objection based on your religion. Your money isn’t your money – it’s Obama’s money. You just earn it. But Obama spends it. And if he spends in subsidizing abortion, and you don’t like it, then tough luck for you. That’s how secular leftist Democrats think.

Exactly, and the gobsmacking thing is that Liberals don't even recognize that they are fascists because (a) they think that if they are liberals, then, by definition, everything they do is about tolerance and respecting the rights of other people and (b) they have convinced themselves that the rights of people they don't much like don't much matter because those people are "superstitious" and ought to leave the country.

A-farging-mazing.