Radar Online: "The Republicans want November to be about Roe v. Wade"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Bush Picks a ‘Wedge’

http://www.radarmagazine.com/fresh-intelligence/#report_002187

Are the Dems finally wising up to Karl Rove? The GOP had hoped whitebread Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’s stance on Roe v. Wade would be the bait for an ugly showdown on abortion in time for the November midterm elections, but Democratic insiders say the donkey ain’t biting.

Rove and Co. have used such so-called “wedge” issues in the past to divide voters and distract attention from real problems plaguing the administration, like job decline, the Iraq war, and scandals like the one now enveloping the Architect himself, White House watchers say.

“The Republicans are looking for a fight and they’re not gonna get it,” says a Democratic congressman, requesting anonymity. “Funny thing is, the White House immediately issued press releases about Roberts’s briefs on Roe v. Wade, and the cable networks were eager to stir things up. Then, when we wouldn’t bite, the White House sent out releases about his role in the 2000 recount to try to stoke the fire. It doesn’t get more blatant than that.”

Considering the President’s approval rating, such a wedge might come in handy. Democrats have their best chance in a decade of winning back House seats from Republicans in key districts in states like Ohio, Florida, California, New York, Massachusetts—and even Bush’s home state of Texas. “The Republicans want November to be about Roe v. Wade,” the congressman says, “and the Democrats in the House understand that come election season it has to be about jobs, the economy and how to fix the war on terror—the things that actually matter in this country.”

[lynettebro440]

1. He looks like an android

Call him Data from now on. Has anyone cut him to see if he bleeds, I'm serious, that man is not human.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Holy CRAP, he DOES look like Data.

:evilgrin:

[tk2kewl]

2. That's why the questioning of Roberts should focus on civil rights...

privacy and environmental regulation, not just Roe.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

3. There are no Republican Congressmen in Massachusetts.

Just for the record.

[Goldeneye]

6. I noticed that too.

I wonder if they're refering to Romney?

[rasputin1952]

5. Let them, that is the only issue they have, and if it is that damn

important to them, why haven't they offered up a Constitutional Amendment outlawing such? I mean if the Flag can get it's own 'amendment' procedure, why can't abortion?

The whole point is that they don't care about abortion; it is a hot button issue, and if it were outlawed, they'd have NOTHING!!!!!

Sort of like the cure to cancer, find it, and money for research dries up....let people die, just keep the cash flowing!....:grr:

It is a bullshit issue, and we should call them on it...I have, many times. They shut up when you mention penalties, like the DP for those that perform abortions if they are 'really murder', complicity charges for the mother and anyone else involved. They have no answers, because they know just mentioning abortion gets people hot on both sides. Make them come up with an alternative....:evilgrin:...they can't do it.