Democrats and Their Masters
24th March 2015
The Democratic Party appears to take the sacramental view of abortion. Any act that might tend to deter an abortion is to be resisted. It’s the abortion equivalent of the positive good school of slavery. If the party as a whole doesn’t subscribe to this view, its funders certainly must.
Thus the dramatic turnaround in Democratic support for the Justice for Victims of Sex Trafficking Act of 2015. It passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with broad bipartisan support. Yet even the bill’s Democratic supporters in committee, such as Minnesota’s own lighter-than-air Senator Amy Klobuchar (a cosponsor of the bill) and angry former comedian Senator Al Franken, turned against it.
One of the core principles of the Peter Pan Party appears to be that nothing must be allowed to impede taxpayer funding of abortions.
Committee Democrats claim that they were shocked, shocked to discover the Hyde restriction on abortion funding in the bill. They didn’t know what they were doing when they voted for it! They didn’t mean it.
Klobuchar and other committee Democrats blame their staffers for failing to inform them that the bill included the language. Beyond that Klobuchar has not strayed.
I wonder if that would have worked at Nuremberg. ‘Honestly, judge, our subordinates failed to inform us that Jews were being killed! It’s not our fault!’
March 24th, 2015 at 12:42
Maybe READING the bill before you take a vote could be a good thing.
Perhaps Congress could come up with “Bills on Tape” so they could listen to a well-voiced actor read the bill to them. With a nice set of “Beats”, they could find out what was in the bill without taking pause from their whoring, gambling, and gluttony.