Fitzmas sucked. Instead of GI Joe and Mr. Machine, all Democrats got was a lousy cardigan sweater.From Today's Toons 11/2/05
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Posted on 11/02/2005 5:35:14 PM PST by goldstategop
What a difference a week makes! Last week, liberals were expecting big things. They were counting on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and the White House to do their work for them.
On Friday, Fitzgerald was supposed to indict Karl Rove. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were going to be named unindicted co-conspirators. Maybe Condoleezza Rice, too. Who knew – maybe even Clarence Thomas. There was even talk of a posthumous indictment for Nixon.
It was going to be Fitzmas Day! (Which is much like Christmas except instead of having her baby in a manger, the woman has a late-term abortion.) Oh, it was hard to fall asleep on Fitzmas Eve!
But Friday came, and only Irve Lewis Libby was accused of committing any crimes. They were all crimes like perjury and obstruction of justice, personal to Libby, unrelated to the administration.
Fitzmas sucked. Instead of GI Joe and Mr. Machine, all Democrats got was a lousy cardigan sweater.
With the Democrats still reeling from Friday's sad news, Bush gave them a right-hook by nominating the stunningly qualified Judge Sam Alito on Monday. (So I guess not all qualified candidates for the Supreme Court turned Bush down before he nominated Miers.)
Not only is Alito qualified, but he also does not consider membership in the Federalist Society comparable to joining the Klan. In other words, this was just the sort of judicial nominee that would have terrified the White House a month ago.
Judge Alito's dear 90-year-old mother – who evidently had not yet been briefed by White House political consultants to avoid stating positions popular with Americans – immediately said of her son, "Of course he's against abortion."
As a judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito voted to uphold a Pennsylvania statute passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the governor that required women to notify their husbands before getting an abortion. (This was later deemed an "undue burden" by liberals' favorite Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.)
There is no question about Alito's qualifications. Democrats can only oppose him for his record, which will alarm a narrow segment of lunatics commonly known as "the Democratic Party base."
Now that timid Republicans are forced to face their fears, it turns out that liberal America was always a paper tiger. Americans are not rising in anger at a judicial nominee who would uphold a state law requiring husbands to be notified of their wives' abortions.
The only people attacking Alito for his abortion ruling are the usual nuts – Planned Parenthood, NARAL, People for the American Way and senators from New York and California (or what CBS thinks of as "the American heartland").
So confident are the Democrats about the popularity of their stance on abortion that the day after Alito's nomination, Senate Democrats shut down the Senate so they wouldn't be forced to talk about Alito.
Minority Leader Harry Reid dramatically invoked an obscure Senate rule to close the Senate for two hours, putatively in order to rehash old arguments about the Iraq war in closed session. In other words, Reid demanded more transparency in government by shutting the doors, throwing out the public, dimming the lights, and turning off the TV cameras in the chambers of the U.S. Senate.
That night, the cable news shows were fixated on Reid's weird stunt – and Senate Democrats narrowly avoided having to talk about Alito's abortion ruling for one more day.
If this is not a coincidence, let's see how long it takes Harry Reid to go on television and state his position on a wife having to notify her husband before getting an abortion. Heck, I'd settle for seeing Harry Reid definitively adopt any position on legalized abortion.
The nuts are perplexed. Why aren't Senate Democrats screaming from rooftops: "This is a judge who would force women to tell their husbands before they have an abortion! Are you people listening?"
Maybe the Democrats aren't running from their base. Maybe they're trying to help NARAL by preventing anyone from finding out about their agenda. If only Democrats could get the American people to believe that a group with the words "abortion" and "rights" in its name is some kind of benevolent little charity that holds bake sales.
Believe me, you don't want the Democrats out there reminding the American people that it's a constitutional right to abort a baby five minutes before birth. I understand that People for the American Way thinks it is "the American way" for wives not to tell their husbands about an abortion. But that's because they need to get out more.
In a 2003 Gallup poll, 72 percent of respondents favored a law requiring the husband of a woman to be notified if she decides to have an abortion. To put it another way, only 28 percent of Americans hold the position that married men have absolutely no reproductive rights whatsoever (but a lot of responsibilities!).
Upward of 60 percent of self-described "liberals" and "Democrats" favored husbands being notified of their wives' abortions. This is consistent with polls going back a decade.
If these poll results don't sound right to you, try crossing Central Park sometime. You'll find another part of Manhattan that's not the Upper West Side. Or do something wild and visit Queens or Staten Island. You won't even have to leave New York City! See how normal people react to the idea of a woman being required to tell her husband that she's having an abortion.
In the past few years, the Democrats have had to run from big government, gun control, welfare, criminal rights and gay marriage. With the Alito nomination, it looks like the Democrats are going to have to renounce the NARAL ladies or prepare for another sad day after the 2006 elections.
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
That's last weeks article. Here's this weeks:]
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi
Ewwwww. Ann is an expert at hitting below the belt, er, uterus.
OOps, same article, but you changed the title.
Well I agree with O'Connor, it must be very burdonsome for a wife to tell her husband she's about to kill their child.
But, after Alitoween, all is forgiven to those on both sides of the fight!
Oh my God! This woman just absolutely nails it time and again. I don't believe there is another commentator who grabs me the same way.
Ann nails it again.
Woohoo, let the Dem. caterwauling begin!
"a narrow segment of lunatics commonly known as "the Democratic Party base." I'd say that "base Democrats" could sound a bit better, if only as a play of words.
BUMP!
It was going to be Fitzmas Day!
It turned out to be FitzMess day instead.
bumpity bump !
("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")
WAY too much information.....
Fitzmas sucked. Instead of GI Joe and Mr. Machine, all Democrats got was a lousy cardigan sweater.From Today's Toons 11/2/05
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lets hope..
Dang; honestly, I've always loved Ann's stuff. But since her behavior over Miers... she just doesn't sound as wise.
Dan
Seems to me that a woman who wants an abortion, and doesn't want her hubby to know, isn't too concerned about 'their' child.
It's her child, sure - though I really doubt a woman would go to that extreme if it was his child.
In other words, the guy who came over to lay down the new carptet laid down something else, too. ;-)
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