Issa: Focus On 'Slut' Comment Dismisses 'Attacks On Americans Of Faith

[RandySF]

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said in a letter on Friday that Democrats had a "narrow focus" on Rush Limbaugh calling Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a "slut" for her testify about contraception coverage and said members of his staff had been attacked as well.

It was Issa's committee that wouldn't allow Fluke to testify because they said she wasn't an appropriate witness to talk about the topic of religious freedom. Issa criticized Democrats for using the situation to "politicize the situation and use it to raise campaign cash."

Issa said that his female staffers had been the subject of "intense and disgusting accusations and insults -- 'hag,' 'traitor,' and numerous references to anatomy have been among the milder expressions hurled over the phone."

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[abelenkpe]

1. How is it an attack on religious freedom

to say an employer can't let his religious beliefs interfere with providing health care for their employees?

[eShirl]

5. It's an attack on their freedom to force their religious rules on the rest of us.

[Johonny]

7. +1

[Autumn]

2. Fuck you Issa

Women who use BC are often Americans Of Faith, we are all Americans . So fuck you, fuck limpballs and fuck your sick twisted morality. FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING WORTHLESS PIECE OF SNAKE SHIT.

[The Magistrate]

3. The Dis-Honesty and Distortion Here, Sir, Is Extreme Even By this Felon's Accustomed Standard

There is no equivalence between being assailed by name in a radio broadcast to many millions of listeners, and abusive language on a telephone call. He knows this.

He also knows that no attack on 'freedom of religion' is underway. People are simply being rendered unable to impose their religious beliefs on people who do not hare them, prevented from forcing other people to abide by their own religious convictions. Issa knows perfectly well he is defining eligious freedom as the right to force others to act in accordance with a religious creed they do ot themselves accept.

[abelenkpe]

4. This is all really an attempt to chip away at HCR

and wouldn't be an issue at all if we had single payer. Employers and universities wouldn't be tasked with providing health care and republicans wouldn't have to remind us that they are medieval pigs who view women as baby factories incapable of making decisions for themselves.

[Johonny]

8. it could chip away at any law

suddenly the Catholic investment corporation doesn't need to follow the FCC, the Catholic auto dealer doesn't need to worry about the lemon law, etc...

[EFerrari]

9. So please, when you complain to your local station

or the FCC, FOCUS ON SLUT!