I wish I could say that rectal-cranial inversions were a rarity in Washington … but I can’t.  And New Jersey Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg is no exception.  Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and revisit some of Lautenberg’s more asinine comments, shall we?  In response to an inane question at a town hall meeting last summer:

“.. there’s another place to get your money and it’s to get it from people like me who made their successes because of the infrastructure, the human infrastructure that the United States has.  And we ought to pay more in our taxes for the things that we’ve gotten as the result of an extraordinary middle class that we have in this country…. Go to Warren Buffett, you heard him the other day, the richest man in America, if not second or third, he said we ought to pay more for the privileges that we wealthy have in this country.  It’s a tough fight but we’ve got to do it.  We’ve got to eliminate the rich.  We’ve got to eliminate the fraudulent practice…”

Or how about this one? 

"The Republicans in Congress claim they're concerned about the budget balance, but it's a disguise, it's not true, it's a lie. That's not what they want. They want other people not to be able to have their own opinions. They don't deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution. But we'll give it to them anyway."

Isn’t that nice of Frank Lautenberg to “give” rights to Republicans, even though he believes they don’t deserve them? 

Well it seems as though Frank still isn’t all that fond of Republicans.  Speaking out against a GOP effort to give employers the option not to offer contraception coverage in health insurance plans, Lautenberg said the Republican “men’s club” in the Senate wants women “barefoot and pregnant.”  He also says that “Contraception is basic health care, and it’s essential for individuals to choose when they want to have a career and when they want to start a family.” 

Women have a right to one kind of contraception and that is the right to say “no.”  Any other form of contraception involves a product or service, which takes time and money.  Is Frank saying that women have a “right” to a certain portion of another person’s life simply because he or she developed, sells or administers a form of contraception?

But to Democrats, the only reason why Republicans don’t approve of Obama’s contraception mandate is because they want women “barefoot and pregnant.”