Last week AP ran a story under a headline that blared, “GOP votes to limit abortion rights.” I hadn’t heard much about such a vote so I read on. Two things struck me. First, the House passed legislation that would make it a federal crime for someone other than a girl's parent to take her across state lines to receive an abortion if she is under the age of 17. The screaming headline didn’t mention abortions for minors or parental notification. In that more than 80% of Americans tend to support the idea that the parents of seventeen year old girl, who can’t get a tattoo, take an aspirin at school or even participate in cheerleading without parental consent, ought to have some input into that same young girl getting an abortion. The same Libs that rushed to the mic to voice their outrage about the supposed infringement of rights of a young girl in trouble to take a decision to have an abortion, rushed to mic to praise the Supreme Court when it decided the same young girl would be too immature to be held accountable for a capital offense.
But Lex has noted over and over that hypocrisy is a mainstay of Lib politics. Rosie O’Donnell bitches about guns, while surrounding herself and family with armed bodyguards. John Kerry bitches about SUVs, their popularity among the masses, and poor energy efficiency while jetting around in private jets, and limoing around in a fleet of SUVs provided by his wife’s dead husband’s money. Hillary bitches about John Bolton being abusive to subordinates after she fired the entire White House travel staff and had baseless criminal charges brought against them. The moral beacon of the Democrat Party, Ted Kennedy fails to see any irony in his complaining about an interrogation procedure know as “water boarding” after drowning a young woman in the backseat of his car and waiting ten hours to report the accident. Al Sharpton is considered a serious Democrat presidential candidate after Tawana Brawley and Freddy’s Fashion Mart. Libs regularly call Republicans racist, bigoted, homophobic yet allow former KKK Kleagal Robert Byrd to maintain a leadership position in the party etc. etc. etc. etc. to infinity.
The second thing that struck me about the headline was it ignored the bipartisan nature of the vote. The headline would have you believe that the mean Republicans were running roughshod over a hapless Democrat minority. Then you look at the vote and discover that 54 of 199 (Over 25% for public school grads) voting Democrats voted with 216 Republicans. That is as bipartisan as it get these days. But the MSM would have the casual headline reading American believe that the GOP single handedly had done away with legal abortion in America. They did/are doing the same thing with the Schiavo case. The senate passed a unanimous consent bill on Schiavo and the house had 47 Democrats vote with 156 Republicans on a house bill on Schiavo. Only when polls indicated that some Americans were uncomfortable with politicians injecting themselves into the issue did the MSM lay the issue at the feet of the GOP and certain Democrat opportunists reach down, find their manly orbs and begin to object to the bipartisan legislation which had passed.
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