Okay -- we predicted here that heads would fall at Komen and now one has. One is plenty because it turns out to be the vice president who engineered the withholding of funds from Planned Parenthood. She has perfect hair and wears pearls, or something that looks like pearls, maybe plastic.
Karen Handel, a former GOP candidate for Georgia governor, has stepped down as senior vice-president for public affairs of the Susan G. Komen foundation. Her resignation follows a week in which the foundation first rescinded funding for Planned Parenthood, then, following widespread outcry, retracted the move. Handel, who has long been very publicly pro-life, was reportedly the driving force behind the decision, and calls for her resignation had multiplied in the past few days; even Komen supporters sympathetic to her worldview were upset by the way the situation played out. It was roundly considered a PR disaster. ...Daily Intel
She will live in infamy. (Infamy is a sprawling suburb with no public transportation, a persistent smell of sewer gas, and a high rate of alcoholism.)
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President Obama is giving in to big money... for his own campaign ... and with good reason.
The phrase “unilateral disarmament” has been used, in a negative sense, to justify a lot of unjustifiable behavior. But President Obama’s argument against unilateral disarmament in the super PAC war seems totally persuasive. The Republican party gained a large advantage in the 2010 elections, and appears poised to seize an even more dramatic edge during this campaign, by channeling vast sums of their campaign donations into third-party organizations, which can raise unlimited sums from undisclosed donors. ...Jonathan Chait
Sure, but that sounds really hypocritical.
True, says Chait. ... but ...
...If you want to change the system, unilateral disarmament seems like a pretty bad way to go about it. Republicans are already pretty strongly opposed to campaign-finance reform. If keeping the current system means preserving a system in which their side gets unlimited outside spending and Democrats abstain, then the GOP is never going to agree to change it. Not that matching their money will force them to agree to reform, but eliminating the GOP’s partisan self-interest in the status quo seems like, at minimum, a necessary step toward reform. ...Chait
True.
Depressing.
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Suggested solutions:
1. Never give a pro-lifer a job, particularly if she's a woman of child-bearing age . The experience of being desperately poor and pregnant again might cure her of her well-fed hypocrisy.
2. Hammer home the truths about who's raising and who's getting most of the Big Money in this campaign. The American people, now increasingly familiar with and experienced in the ways of the Republicans (and Wall Street), are fed up with Big Money. Let votes kill them off and look forward to years of respite from their corrosive politics. ... Well, at least until we build another boom for them to bust.
