Abstinence only “sex education” and what’s wrong with Democrats

[Demeter]

http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=1414

...Let’s add things up: abstinence education not only doesn’t work, it actually harms our children by putting them at risk for unwanted early pregnancies and disease. It also helps Republicans politically by funding far right organizations. So it’s perhaps not surprising that when the Democrats won control of Congress in 2006, the party’s long suffering base was optimistic that this monstrosity would finally be put to death.

Fools!

You see, it turned out the Democrats in Congress had a much better idea: instead of abolishing abstinence funding, they decided to increase it...Why? According to Congressional Quarterly, it was supposed to be the bait to get Republicans to support the budget as a whole: Lawmakers say the olive branch extended to Republicans increases the likelihood that the bill will pass the House with a veto-proof majority. It also sends a strong signal that Appropriations Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wis., will avoid controversial social policy changes this year in the interest of moving bills.

Could there be a better example of what’s wrong with the Democratic congressional leadership? The GOP, during their years in power, would never have dreamed of such a sellout. True, they were always more than happy to loot the treasury for useless programs — but ones that pandered to their base and lined the wallets of their supporters. They drew the line at useless programs (and for that matter useful ones) that pandered to or lined the pockets of the opposing party’s supporters.

While I would certainly never encourage congressional Democrats to model themselves after the gang of thieves who ran things in the bad old Republican days, perhaps in this one respect the Republicans may just have had a point.

[babylonsister]

1. I'm saving this to read later. Sounds fishy to me because I remember

states opting out of abstinence ed.

[Demeter]

2. It's Been Greatly Chopped to Fit

The states opting out is in the beginning of the article.

[Dr.Phool]

3. The difference between "Democratic Congressional Leadership" and flying saucers.

Everyone thinks they're out there, but nobody has actually seen one.

[Demeter]

4. Yes. It's More Like Followership. Or Abject Slavishness

or a conspiracy of fools.