Mark Shields (CNN) equates NOW w transvestite special interest group?

[Alpharetta]

"You know the knock: Democrats are forever meeting with special interests like the Irish-Jewish Home for the Short or Transvestite Taxidermists Against the Metric System and then caving to the groups' non-negotiable demands......

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In explaining his opposition to Judge Roberts, Reid told the Senate he had been "very swayed" by the public testimony of, and his private meeting with, those civil rights and women's groups.

Enter Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women, one of the groups with enormous influence in Democratic Party councils and whose organization had called President Bush's nomination of John Roberts, in measured language, "an outrage and an insult to the women of this country."

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from http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/26/democrats.problem/

[NWHarkness]

1. I don't thonk he was making the equation

I think he was saying that that was "the knock" against Dems that our opponenets try to spread.

[etherealtruth]

2. That's my interpretation also n/t

[Alpharetta]

3. I think he makes no distinction between any special interest groups

He does the American public no service when he lumps them all together.