How can we miss you if you won’t go away, you repudiated, socially conservative, lame duck loonies?
Via AP:
While they still can, House Republicans are looking at scheduling a vote next week on a fetal pain abortion bill in a parting shot at incoming majority Democrats and a last bid for loyalty from the GOP's base of social conservatives.
... The bill, by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., defines a 20-week-old fetus as a "pain-capable unborn child" - a highly controversial threshold among scientists. It also directs the Health and Human Service Department to develop a brochure stating "that there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain."
To be clear, this has no chance of passing. This sham is just a feeding frenzy for the crazy base, with the "do-nothing" GOP majority doing what it does best ... wasting time and taxpayer money on pandering to the religious nuts, whom they assume – rightly or wrongly – can’t tell the difference between a failed bill and new law of the land.
Gotta love this:
"Next year, the leadership of the House will be hardcore pro-abortion loyalists," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee. "They will block votes on even modest pro-life measures like this one."
While it’s amusing in a bitter kind of way to watch the writhing and death throes of these losers, it still feels like Pelosi’s first hundred hours can’t come soon enough.