This entire thread was started when one of the members of the Legion of Doom and Gloom posted a stinkbomb of an article that portrayed the passage of this bill as the latest example of George W. Bush and the Great Joo Conspiracy selling the country down the river because they can. There is a contingent of loony extremists that have been a real pain in the ass lately, spamming this site with all kinds of crap about how we're all screwed and the country is doomed and it's all George Bush's fault. They hate Bush with an intensity that makes the rantings over at Delusions Unlimited seem like sane, reasoned discourse.
Unfortunately, they have managed to create a total NON-ISSUE with the PBA ban by distorting the bill's language, and fool some genuinely pro-life people here into believing that the Republican Party is bending them over yet again. These pro-lifers have been so taken by the venom these Bush-haters have been spewing that they cannot see they're being played like a bunch of cheap fiddles, for the purpose of siphoning conservative votes away from George Bush.
I've been checking on this thread throughout the day and cannot begin to express how dismayed I have been. For the first time I can remember, the tide of the abortion debate has turned in our favor. A clear majority of the public favors, at a bare minimum, very definite restrictions on abortion, if not a complete ban exept in very rare, very extreme circumstances. We're winning hearts and minds here, and for the very first time we have a chance to actually get a law placing some sort of restrictions on abortion enacted. Is this ban perfect? Absolutely not, but by God it's a start. It is, to steal a line from Senator Sot, a "down payment."
And now we're trying our best to piss all this progress away by screaming and kicking and holding our breath like little children throwing temper tantrums because we didn't get everything we wanted. And since we didn't get everything, by God we'll take nothing! And all the while that so many of us are pitching fits while playing little semantics games with one another, the people who would destroy the Republican Party, nay, the people who would DESTROY OUR NATION to make room for their little anarchist utopia, sit back and chuckle at us "Bots."
I suggest that everyone who has been contributing to or following this thread bookmark it. Because this PBA ban still may not make it into law if the Senate Rats decide they will take it down by refusing to budge in conference committee. And if that happens, I guarantee you that many of the same posters who have been running on and on all day about how the Republicans are a bunch of political whores and about how Bush is a sellout for offering this bill will be right back, stirring up fresh trouble by saying that Bush sold us out because he didn't fight for the PBA ban.
An apt description of the moral-liberal anarchists posting here as 'patriots.'