Posted on 01/12/2006 2:59:43 PM PST by neverdem
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January 12, 2006, 11:26 a.m. Lying and Dying Watching a once-great party fall.
Watching the Kate vs. Kate debate on Meet the Press this past Sunday it was our own Kate OBeirne vs. Kate Michelman, formerly of NARAL Pro-Choice America how out-of-date the latter's rhetoric seemed, how diffuse and filibustering her language was, over against the precision, citation of telling facts, and self-confident argument of Kate O' Beirne.
Our Kate, author of Women Who Make the World Worse, talked quietly, as if she owned the future, as when she told the other Kate that, of course, the Left wanted to keep Roe in the courts. Why? Because if Roe were reversed, abortion would not be halted, but the arguments over it would move back into the political sphere of states and localities, where the pro-life forces would win more than half the arguments, for sure. The Left must avoid the democratic branches of government, lest they be badly embarrassed.
Much the same feeling arose from watching with fascination the Alito hearings. How old and out-of-date and empty of real ideas not to say connection to reality Kennedy, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, and, above all, Schumer seemed. They know they have to do what they are doing, but they know their efforts are for nothing, and their words are making hollow echoes. Even their indignation seems forced and falls swiftly flat.
The pompous rhetorical indignation of Kennedy has become merely pathetic. He was once a heroic figure, but he now seems like the lion of Alice in Wonderland threadbare, tame, and roaring every so often only out of nostalgic habit. Chuck Schumer drones on like a little spoiled boy who becomes a schoolyard bully just by his superior tone of voice, boring in upon others, coercing them verbally, trying to make them feel as worthless as in his mind they are.
It is painful to watch the ruin of a great party. A great party has come to this.
And most of it happened because of commitment to a policy that cannot be maintained without lies and malicious euphemisms. That is, the killing of innocents in what is supposed to be the most welcoming, safest place on earth a mother's womb. (Isn't the posture of wishing one were safe the fetal position?)
This radical lie that what is destroyed in abortion is not a human individual, endowed with human rights has poisoned a great party, induced a great rationalization in the place of constitutional reasoning in the Supreme Court, and divided a nation unnecessarily over an issue that ought at the very least to have been left to the consent of the people in diverse jurisdictions.
No lie so basic to one's own identity goes unpunished.
Michael Novak is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for progress in religion and the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/novak/novak200601121126.asp
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The issue is and will always be about the selfishness and callousness of a mechanical elimination of growing tissue destined to be a brand new human being, perfect or flawed, without regard to the damage done to the procsess itself; when a woman gets pregnant, the world itself is a little bit pregnant with the expectation of biological success and this is not a small thing, for the survival of any species depends upon the survival of its individual members.
Certainly, with current population numbers, individual births seem like grains of sand upon a vast beach but it takes little imagination to see a future rocky shore bereft of fineness and smooth form in place of that, all jagged and forlorn.
It was better, sociologically and traumatically, when it was a back alley secret.
"It is simply bad politics, on the basis of future numbers, to enable eliminating entire generations of your own most likely future supporters"
I wonder if anyone has ever studied the relationship between upward wage pressure and abortion. You have to think that eliminating that many potential employees would cause some fluctuations in the labor market.
They hate their culture, and they mix it with a strong double-shot of guilt.
But then we're stuck with one-party rule - by RINO's and their internationalist sycophants.
And what fun is that? ;-D
Yeah! No s**t!
I LOVE American culture. It's vibrant, irreverant, infectuous, and most of all, ALIVE. Contrast that with the dying cultures our cousins in over in Old Europe are failing to uphold.
It's not that painful for us gen-xers who never knew a Democrat party that was not vindictive and anti-American.
Pompous, rhetorical and pathetic are the proper adjectives for someone who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating and graduated last in his class at law school. His lectures to Alito are a joke.
Good one...
The would-be president is messing with ire (NY fans-turned-critics wash their hands of Hillary) Maybe we'll get lucky, and she won't go for the Senate in 2006. Otherwise, NY might be stuck with her for decades.
GOP FEELS OUT DEM SUOZZI FOR GOV RUN (tapping into groups who want Spitzer defeated)
U.S. Threatens to Sue Albany Over Voting
FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.
The Democratic Party, historically, has *always* been on the wrong (immoral) side. They were the champions of slavery (Dred Scott), racial segregation (Plessy v. Ferguson), and abortion on demand (Roe v. Wade). As my parentehtical appendices demonstrate, they likewise *always* relied on the US Supreme Court to "legalize" their morally abhorrent platforms.
For anyone to aver that the Democratic Party has ever been anything more than an American scandal, throughout it's history, betrays a stunning lack of knowledge about both the history of our nation, and of that "Party" in particular...
the infowarrior
In short, it's only an America that would permit a Zappa, or a "Team America."
At Bud's Country Lounge in Hyannis, when after snorting a line the size of a highway center line and banging his head on the bar, he heroically took to the road and drove himself home.
The scariest thing to contemplate is the probability that, if Chappaquidick had never happened, Kennedy would have been elected President in 1976.
Actually, one year and one month - June of '68 to July of '69. I remember it was right around the time of the moon landing.
"I finished a Hendrix bio that was amazing (I used some of the comments in my new book). JH was VERY pro-Vietnam War until after 1970."
Actually, Jimi Hendrix wasn't ANYthing after 1970. :(
He is a hero to nephew Skakel. Killed a woman and got away with it.
When were Democrats a "great party? Slavery? Jim Crow? Tammany Hall? Keeping us out of WWI? Getting us out of the Great Depression? Preparing for WWII? The Cold War? The Welfare State? Roe v Wade? Stopping terrorism? MSM lies? When?
Sorry, I meant 1969. His comments were made in early 1969.
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