Outside the ObamaCare hearings, conservatives sound like liberals

Think you’ve already heard every possible argument against the health-insurance reform now known as Obamacare? Then I’m going to guess you weren’t there when conservative Iowa Congressman Steve King stepped to the portable lectern in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning and, repeating the words scribbled on a handmade sign being waved around over his head by a man in a cowboy hat, warned the government to “Keep your law off my BODY!!’’…

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And outside the court, conservatives unexpectedly enlivened the day by talking like liberals. In the fieriest conservative speech of the morning — outside the court, anyway — 32-year-old Keli Carender, a math teacher turned full-time tea party employee from Seattle, even inveighed against patriarchy.

“I’m the breadwinner in my family, my mother was the breadwinner in our family, and I don’t need anyone to take care of me!’’ she told cheering fellow conservatives. Which is not a message I ever recall reading in the Schlafly Report. “Real women buy their own birth control,’’ she said in conclusion, as her cohorts chanted, “Obamacare is doom” and held aloft the likeness of the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart.

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