House Republicans who featured posters and quotations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., deployed “Stalinist-like tactics” against the contraception mandate today, according to a Democratic legislator who was scolding the religious leaders testifying against the mandate.
“This is a panel designed, with your conscious participation or not, to try one more time to embarrass the President of the United States and his Administration by overstating an issue which is sacred to all Americans — religious freedom,” Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said this morning during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. “But, of course, in order to do it, we have to — in an almost Stalinist-like fashion — have signs of Democratic icons to rub Democratic faces in it, as if those icons would be on the same side of this dispute today,” he said.
