Cheap Low-Down Deceitful Legerdemain

Connie Marshner

Talk about duplicitous! Talk about cheap, low-down, hypocritical, dishonest, unscrupulous, deceitful, contemptible, dirty trick, legerdemain! 

This I think takes the cake.

OK: here are the details:

Today (Thursday) the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to take up a Supplemental Appropriations bill to fund the war in Iraq.

This is regarded as a legislative emergency.

This is important stuff.   Lives of troops depend on this. National security depends on this. 

Now hear this: into this important, vital bill, the Democrats have slipped in a little tasty nugget of highly specialized pork: more funding for Planned Parenthood.

I kid you not. The text is in Section 6003 of the Supplemental, not available online yet, on p.155 of the hard copy currently available on the Hill. It is a “technical correction” to the Deficit Reduction Act, dealing with how Medicaid reimburses certain drug coverage. The intended effect is to enable Planned Parenthood to get drugs at a greater discount. 

As the nation is being asked to squeeze our belts tighter to protect the lives of our men and women in harm’s way in Iraq, the Democrats who control Congress are making sure we spend a little more money to kill more unborn babies in the United States.

 Apart from the outrageous sneakiness of this -- apart from the intrinsic evil of federal funding of Planned Parenthood -- the juxtaposition is beyond ironic. The Democrats are planning to give more money to Planned Parenthood so we can have even fewer future citizens who might be born and grow up to earn money and so they could pay taxes to cover the deficits that are piling up.