Monday, March 13, 2006
Oh, Choice? Who Cares About That?
Sometimes, I want to beat the Democratic establishment with reeds:
"Republicans are going to be the ones who look like extremists," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who lost his seat in 2004 after being beaten up on the abortion issue for years. That does not mean, however, that Democrats are rushing to call attention to the Republicans' dilemma. In the upcoming midterm elections, the Democrats don't plan to spend a dime on ads highlighting the abortion issue, according to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the savvy Chicago pol who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He wouldn't spell out the reasons, but a top party staffer (who declined to be quoted out of deference to his bosses) told NEWSWEEK: "These guys are gun-shy because they're used to getting clobbered on the issue."
"Oh, yeah, the anti-choice movement has really overstepped their bounds and is threatening the personal freedom of every woman in America, but what are we going to say about it?"
Listen to me, people: The majority of Americans want Roe v. Wade upheld. This bill, as it is, forces a woman to carry her rapist's child. A state senator who upheld this issue went on TV and said the only conditions under which he'd allow a girl to have an abortion would be if she'd been raped, was a virgin, was religious, was planning on saving herself for marriage, and was sodomized (in other words, the image of every "good religious girl"). Pro-choice members of the Republican Party have basically bended over in order to support Samuel Alito.
This is your issue. Act like it is.
"Republicans are going to be the ones who look like extremists," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, who lost his seat in 2004 after being beaten up on the abortion issue for years. That does not mean, however, that Democrats are rushing to call attention to the Republicans' dilemma. In the upcoming midterm elections, the Democrats don't plan to spend a dime on ads highlighting the abortion issue, according to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the savvy Chicago pol who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He wouldn't spell out the reasons, but a top party staffer (who declined to be quoted out of deference to his bosses) told NEWSWEEK: "These guys are gun-shy because they're used to getting clobbered on the issue."
"Oh, yeah, the anti-choice movement has really overstepped their bounds and is threatening the personal freedom of every woman in America, but what are we going to say about it?"
Listen to me, people: The majority of Americans want Roe v. Wade upheld. This bill, as it is, forces a woman to carry her rapist's child. A state senator who upheld this issue went on TV and said the only conditions under which he'd allow a girl to have an abortion would be if she'd been raped, was a virgin, was religious, was planning on saving herself for marriage, and was sodomized (in other words, the image of every "good religious girl"). Pro-choice members of the Republican Party have basically bended over in order to support Samuel Alito.
This is your issue. Act like it is.
