Oh yeah, she's on the short list...

[Coexist]

when a high-ranking vampire like Novak decides to dedicate a column to crafting a tragedy mask for Conservatives to cover your face with, you've come a long way, baby.

Novakula pulls out all the stops on this one! As a pro-choicer, I had no idea that we have "famous" abortion doctors and that abortion was an "industry" with obscene profits in need of "laundering". Its comedy gold.

Those positions are necessary for Democratic politicians to pass their party's pro-choice litmus test, but Sebelius's connection with abortion is more intimate. She is allied with the aggressive Kansas branch of Planned Parenthood in a bitter struggle with antiabortion activist District Attorney Phill Kline. There is substantial evidence she has been involved in what pro-life advocates term "laundering" abortion industry money for distribution to Kansas Democrats. Kansas is the fiercest state battleground in the abortion wars, making Kathleen Sebelius the national pro-choice poster girl.

The Almanac of American Politics talks of a "moderate image" for Sebelius, daughter of former Ohio governor John Gilligan. She picked up substantial Republican support in an easy win in the 2002 governor's race and, after naming a former GOP state chairman as her running mate, was reelected in 2006 in a landslide. Chosen this year to deliver the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address, she told the nation, "In this time normally reserved for the partisan response, I hope to offer you something more: an American response." She gave the impression of reaching out across party lines in what was widely regarded as an audition for vice president as a Democrat able to carry a red state.

Behind that facade, Sebelius sits at the apex of a complicated Kansas financing system involving the famous abortion provider George Tiller of Wichita. She controls Bluestem Fund PAC, which distributed money to Kansas Democratic candidates. Tiller, one of the few U.S. doctors still performing late-term abortions, contributed $120,000 in 2006 to the Democratic Governors Association, which has given $200,000 to Bluestem.

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1. .

[phrigndumass]

2. The right-wing's terminology about pro-choice is very conspiratorial

The fundies write novels where the pro-choice folks are being spoken to by demons. Seriously. We're all Satan's pawns!

:hi:

[DemVet]

3. Is the word "fundie" intended to insult all Christians or just a select few?

[phrigndumass]

4. Actually I meant it to insult only you.

Glad you found my reply so you could be insulted!

[DemVet]

5. It takes a better person...

...than you to insult me.

Nice way to dodge the question. Typical, though.

[Coexist]

8. .

:spank:

lol!

[cliffordu]

12. LOL Nice!

:rofl:

[scarletwoman]

6. Most people understand that the word "fundie" is short for "fundamentalist".

Not all Christians are fundamentalists, ergo, the word "fundie" does not refer to all Christians. It refers specifically to fundamentalists.

[grantcart]

11. fundamentalism is a recent and corrupted Christology that is an insult to Christianity

[JerseygirlCT]

7. So

PP is "aggressive", but that whackjob Kline is an "activist".

And Sebelius can't possibly be "American" because she supports an individual's rights to her own private medical decisions?

And is there any surprise that Tiller, one of the few doctors still willing to provide a needed medical service for women, supports Democrats? There's something nefarious in that? I wonder if these jerks realize that a great number of the later term abortions he provides are to women who would love to be able to keep their baby? But the baby is terribly, usually fatally, deformed and can only live on in the womb in pain, be born in pain, and die in pain. That's better, I guess than aborting?

Ignoramouses.

[JimGinPA]

9. Novak Should Be Sending Articles From Prison For His Treason

[Max_powers94]

10. she's on the short Bus

[Coexist]

13. how progressive of you.