You Know You're Failing as a Liberal When: Right-Wingers Thank You

by Alex DiBranco · 2010-01-09 20:05:00 UTC
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An easy way to tell that you're doing an atrocious job as a supposedly liberal politician: when a boatload of right-wing organizations stop by your office to thank you for the awesome work.

Next week, the anti-choice Susan B. Anthony List will come calling at the offices of an 13 House Democrats in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, to thank them for supporting the Stupak amendment and to encourage them to keep depriving women of the ability to exercise their reproductive rights.

Representatives Brad Ellsworth, John Murtha, and Charlie Wilson are just a few of the unlucky 13 who will be receiving visitors. Tea party! (No pun intended.)

And don't forget, the more the merrier: Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and the Eagle Forum, among others, will also be stopping by to express their gratitude for the less-than-liberal Democrats' decision to violate women's rights.

Hopefully they at least bring a gift for their hosts -- may I suggest a fruit basket, or a coat hanger?

Photo: psd

Alex DiBranco is a Change.org Editor who has worked for the Nation, Political Research Associates, and the Center for American Progress. She is now based in New York City.
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