Post And Beam

Lawyers in Love
Here is what RedStateVT has learned about Sandra Fluke, the bold and intrepid crusader at the center of the (latest) contraception battle. Fluke is an unmarried 30 year old who voluntarily matriculated at a Jesuit law school where the stated policy is that its health care plan covered contraception for women who had medical reasons for requiring it. Georgetown's plan (again, this is a Jesuit institution) does not cover contraception for non-medical reasons, i.e. recreational sex. (RedStateVT note: cheap and affordable contraception is available at drug stores on every corner in Washington.) Fluke, President Obama and Democrats believe that it should.


This is the narrative that the Left wants to champion? 


And then we have this, demonstrating that Liberals have absolutely no idea how insurance works:


He (Rush Limbaugh) said insuring contraception would represent another “welfare entitlement,” which is wrong — tax dollars would not provide the benefit, employers and insurance companies would. (Maureen Dowd, NYT, 3/3/2012)


Yes, that's right, insurance companies would pay for contraception, not the tax payer! Of course, insurance companies collect premiums from policyholders to provide coverage and benefits for those policyholders...who are also tax payers.


Shocking
At a conference in Washington, Mr. Obama told representatives of the United Automobile Workers that he would buy a Chevrolet Volt in five years, after fulfilling a potential second term as president. (NYT, 2/28/2012)


General Motors will suspend Chevrolet Volt production from March 19th to April 23rd in order to bring supply of the plug-in hybrid car in line with demand, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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GM spokesperson Chris Lee told the newspaper that 1,300 employees at the Hamtramck, Michigan, assembly plant where the Volt is built would be temporarily laid off during the production freeze. (Foxnews.com, 3/2/2012)


Obama showing up at a green energy business is like the kiss of death. He shows up and shortly thereafter the business tanks.


Transformed
For Mr. Santorum, a Republican candidate for president, that conversation was an early step on a path into a deeply conservative Catholic culture that has profoundly influenced his life as a husband, father and politician. Over the past two decades, he has undergone a religious transformation that is now spurring a national conversation about faith in the public sphere. (NYT, 3/3/2012)


The Times gives us a detailed review and analysis of Rick Santorum's religious faith today, just like they did for candidate Obama back in 2008....Oh wait, they didn't?


Preferences
The meeting in the Bay Area is for Priorities USA Action, a super PAC set up by Mr. Obama’s former aides. It is being organized by Steve Westly, a venture capitalist and major fund-raiser for the Obama campaign in both 2008 and 2012. 


Mr. Westly, a former California state controller who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006, has drawn scrutiny from the news media, because his venture capital firm, which focuses on green technologies, had stakes in a number of companies that have benefited from millions of dollars of loans and grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, according to an investigation by ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity. The federal money flowing to the companies raised questions about whether political supporters to the president received preferential treatment in the awarding of funds, which was vigorously disputed by the administration. (NYT, 3/2/2012)


This has all the elements that Colonel Bernie Sanders has railed about in his attacks on Super PACs and the influence of the wealthy on the political process. We expect him to issue a scathing condemnation shortly. Well, no we don't really.