The Daily Background

Last night I managed to get a nasty papercut from the very angry upper edge of a manila folder on my left middle finger (the one that usually rests on the D key), and so I’m having trouble typing. If this hadn’t happened, I would be writting up a roundup on that whole South Dakota abortion debackle. Instead, I’ll settle for just quoting Jane of the pre-eminent Firedoglake (and no, I have no idea what that means either, I just thesaurus’d it up), who points out an interesting angle:

The law was passed, in large, because the way is now clear to a Supreme Court who might actually uphold it. A supreme court whose balance was tilted to the right when Joe Lieberman and Lincoln Chafee voted for cloture on Samuel Alito. NARAL and Planned Parenthood are whimpering on the ground, sniveling even as they frolic in the huge mountain of cash they raised for the purpose of fighting Alito’s confirmation. Which they did not show up for. What did they do with that hoarded pile of cash? Then they had the outrageous gall to send out emails to their membership asking them to write thank-you letters to Lieberman for his vote. Why do they not understand? Their comfortable shift to the “middle” and toward the GOP can only be interpreted one way: follow the cash and fuck choice.

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