Dear NARAL, Kindly Get Bent

About a week ago, I noted that at least with respect to Lincoln Chafee, NARAL was playing along with the ridiculous "pro-choice moderate" charade of voting to close debate on confirming Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, but "against" confirmation on the floor.  There was only one vote that counted on Samuel Alito, and that was the cloture vote.  Period.  A vote for cloture was a vote to hasten the end of legal abortion in the United States, and everyone involved knew it.

Now, NARAL has gone from just going along with the lie of that charade to actively promoting the lie.  They recommend that NARAL supporters  "Thank your senator for opposing Alito!".  They then list all of the Senators who voted no on Alito when it didn't count.  That, in my view, is spreading to NARAL's supports a lie about how many (and which) Senators actually voted yes on Alito when it did count.  Why is NARAL covering for these Senators' willingness to throw the rights of women under the bus?  Why is NARAL deceiving their supporters as to the effectiveness of NARAL's efforts and the real moral fiber of the American political class?

Bottom line:  NARAL got schooled by the anti-choice crowd, and their nominal allies sold them out.  NARAL should be outraged.  NARAL should not be covering for these people.  NARAL should not be playing whatever silly tactical game they're playing.

For them as are interested, I've reproduced NARAL's list below the fold, striking out the Senators who don't deserve your thanks (but who NARAL wants you to thank for selling you out).

Arkansas	Senator Blanche Lincoln
Arkansas	Senator Mark Pryor
California	Senator Barbara Boxer
Colorado	Senator Ken Salazar
Connecticut	Senator Chris Dodd
Connecticut	Senator Joe Lieberman
Delaware	Senator Joseph Biden
Delaware	Senator Thomas Carper
Florida	Senator Bill Nelson
Hawaii	Senator Daniel Akaka
Hawaii	Senator Daniel Inouye
Illinois	Senator Dick Durbin
Illinois	Senator Barack Obama
Indiana	Senator Evan Bayh
Iowa	Senator Tom Harkin (Did not vote on cloture)
Louisiana	Senator Mary Landrieu
Maryland	Senator Barbara Mikulski
Maryland	Senator Paul Sarbanes
Massachusetts	Senator Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts	Senator John Kerry
Michigan	Senator Carl Levin
Michigan	Senator Debbie Stabenow
Minnesota	Senator Mark Dayton
Montana	Senator Max Baucus
Nevada	Senator Harry Reid
New Jersey	Senator Frank Lautenberg
New Jersey	Senator Robert Menendez
New Mexico	Senator Jeff Bingaman
New York	Senator Hillary Clinton
New York	Senator Charles Schumer
North Dakota	Senator Byron Dorgan
Oregon	Senator Ron Wyden
Rhode Island	Senator Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island	Senator Jack Reed
Vermont	Senator Jim Jeffords
Vermont	Senator Patrick Leahy
Washington	Senator Maria Cantwell
Washington	Senator Patty Murray
West Virginia	Senator John Rockefeller
Wisconsin	Senator Russell Feingold
Wisconsin	Senator Herb Kohl

Comments

[InsultComicDog]

They have become irrelevant.

[jack*]

As if reality was ever affected by symbolism.