A Clue For The Keebler Elf
Gary Bauer, head of Campaign for Working Families and a noted participant in an October 3 conference call with White House officials in which the latter bartered Harriet Miers' SCOTUS vote against Roe v. Wade in exchange for support of the former and his evangelical friends for her confirmation, released the following email yesterday:
1) I haven't seen anywhere where Dobson, Bauer, or "others" have been "threatened" by Chairman Specter. "Snarlin' Arlen's" words were thus:
Okay, so they go to D.C. and testify as to what transpired in the conference call. An inconvenience, sure, and having to put up with Chucky and Uncle Teddy and Ali-Dickbar and Senator Hairplugs will be a pain in the ass, but this isn't a federal grand jury subpeona. Seems to me the only way these evangelical "leaders" would incur "threats" is if they refused to show up, or lied under oath.
2) Could it be that the reason "no one on the Left, not the ACLU or the abortion-on-demand crowd or the homosexual rights groups" are being summoned by the Judiciary Committee is because the White House wasn't blatantly and cynically pandering to them? Did it really never occur to Bauer, Dobson & co. that maybe that conference call wasn't such a hot idea? And that perhaps there was something fishy about the White House trying to so crassly buy them off on a nominee whose main selling point has been the President smirking and saying, "Trust me"?
My estimation of Gary Bauer crashed during the 2000 GOP primaries when he dropped out and then turned around and endorsed the bane of evangelicals, John McCain. This whiny, petulant email doesn't exactly change my mind.
"As of now,” Bauer wrote, "Dr. Dobson may be dragged up to the hearing with me and others. Meanwhile, no one on the Left, not the ACLU or the abortion-on-demand crowd or the homosexual rights groups, is being threatened by the committee.”Two observations about this comment.
1) I haven't seen anywhere where Dobson, Bauer, or "others" have been "threatened" by Chairman Specter. "Snarlin' Arlen's" words were thus:
"If Dr. Dobson shouldn’t have known about [the White House hawking Miers' Roe vote],” Senator Specter said, as reported by Roll Call, "I sure want to know what it is he shouldn’t have known, and I intend to find out."
Okay, so they go to D.C. and testify as to what transpired in the conference call. An inconvenience, sure, and having to put up with Chucky and Uncle Teddy and Ali-Dickbar and Senator Hairplugs will be a pain in the ass, but this isn't a federal grand jury subpeona. Seems to me the only way these evangelical "leaders" would incur "threats" is if they refused to show up, or lied under oath.
2) Could it be that the reason "no one on the Left, not the ACLU or the abortion-on-demand crowd or the homosexual rights groups" are being summoned by the Judiciary Committee is because the White House wasn't blatantly and cynically pandering to them? Did it really never occur to Bauer, Dobson & co. that maybe that conference call wasn't such a hot idea? And that perhaps there was something fishy about the White House trying to so crassly buy them off on a nominee whose main selling point has been the President smirking and saying, "Trust me"?
My estimation of Gary Bauer crashed during the 2000 GOP primaries when he dropped out and then turned around and endorsed the bane of evangelicals, John McCain. This whiny, petulant email doesn't exactly change my mind.
posted by JASmius at 2:42 PM
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