The idea that GOP is a party of moneyed interests posing as
a culturally conservative party is, um, not always without empirical support.
He’s talking about the House GOP’s failure today to muster
enough votes to pass a bill banning abortion after the five month mark in
pregnancy — this, despite the overwhelming popularity of banning late-term abortion.
Note well: this stance is particularly popular with young voters.
Mollie Hemingway, in fine form today, says this is a bad sign for the future. Excerpts:
Hemingway points out that the two
female GOP Congressmen who led the fight to scuttle the vote were in favor of
the same legislation two years ago — and Hemingway has video of both women
speaking out in favor of it. More Hemingway:
These women are claiming to all of
a sudden be concerned about the reporting requirement — the requirement that
has nearly two-to-one support among voters and the one they had no problem with
just a couple of years ago.
This reporting requirement would keep late-term
abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell or Leroy Carhart from simply checking a
box before going ahead with the procedure.
Besides, it’s one thing to seek an
exception to abortion laws for victims of rape, and entirely another to think
that exception must be extended until the baby exits the birth canal.
This bill
wouldn’t have a reporting requirement for abortions in the first five months of
pregnancy.
In fact, even Democrats who think
late-term abortion should be legal with no restrictions didn’t make an issue of
the reporting requirement in the last two elections.
Last year, support for
late-term abortion hurt Democratic candidates. But now Ellmers
created a controversy where none existed, hereby handing Democrats a way to
fight a broadly popular bill.
This sabotage of the pro-life
movement over what may have been a power struggle happens at a time when many
pro-life activists have grown weary of being used by the GOP for electoral
victory only to be forgotten weeks later when it’s time to vote.
She goes on to explain why this
debacle was horribly botched at a purely political level by the House Republican
leadership. Read the whole thing.
Once again, social
conservatives are useful idiots for the Koch Party. Sure didn’t take long for
the House Republicans to tick off one of the conservative coalition’s key
voting blocs — and on the day of the big pro-life march too.
Great job, Stupid
Party!
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