SMALL FAVORS
Ivins, Molly
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Summer Fun Took a two-week vacation and returned clear-eyed, invigorated, relaxed, and ready to gaze anew on the political scene. Good grief, what a disgusting...
...Good grief, what a disgusting sight...
...Look at the package of bills to undercut abortion rights now sailing through the House...
...Short of ideas...
...And all these lovely militia types who want to stave off government tyranny and protect our constitutional rights: born to be in the ACLU, just haven't heard about it...
...He's the candidate for those who think Phil Gramm is not mean enough...
...Wait 'til you see the angry women this is going to provoke...
...Well, she said, making a fearless forecast she could live to regret, I think the dumb SOBs have gone too far...
...Now we have the pleasant prospect of watching abortion be a major issue all summer long, along with cutting Medicare...
...And anything that goes wrong from now on—crime up, economy down—can be blamed on the R's...
...Her column appears in this space every month...
...Having polished off the Contract with America, the House is now on a bender to repeal abortion rights...
...We've read a lot about "angry white men...
...I think it would be fun to beat every single one of the Republican freshmen who got elected last year...
...Let me recommend Steve Stockman's district in East Texas...
...Rejecting Foster just underlines the fact the Republican Party has sold out to the Un-Christian Right...
...I've come across several people who have received unsolicited NRA cards announcing they are members of the organization...
...And I'd like to thank Alex Cockburn for this item: Bookshop Santa Cruz is selling Newt's book at the price of baloney per pound.¦ Molly Ivins is a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
...Besides, the NRA is going broke and has been lying about its membership...
...Summer fun...
...Meantime, more and more economic studies show that the bottom half of the country in income is steadily losing ground...
...Henry Foster, a good and decent man...
...The Supreme Court undercut affirmative action and Texas is still trying to foist Phil Gramm on the world...
...Ialso enjoyed the Bob Dole-Hollywood rumble...
...That just might be having more effect on our lives than can be cured by more Disney movies...
...Personally, I'm rooting for Representative Bob ("Shut up, fag") Dornan to get the Republican nomination...
...The Senate contributed to the festivities by killing off the nomination of Dr...
...Stockman is a rightwing "Christian" nincompoop elected with the help of the NRA...
...I'm taking bets on how many times Tim McVeigh has seen Rambo...
...Seventy percent of the American people support abortion rights...
...What cheer...
...Some weeks, it's better not to read the papers...
...And did we not appreciate the news that Senator Dole and his wife, having attended the same Methodist Church for ten years, are now changing churches because the preacher is "too liberal...
...What splendid cascades of piffle...
...The Un-Christian Coalition told so many lies about Foster that Pat Robertson should have Pinoc-chio-nose...
...Now is the time to line up decent Congressional candidates and to raise money for them—including a few good R's...
...How pleasant to see Dole, Gramm, etc., pander to that pack of liars (I'm looking at a "Christian" Coalition letter that claims Foster may have performed upwards of 700 abortions and that he sterilized mentally handicapped women without their consent...
...If you live in a district represented by a decent D, why not adopt some other district with a particularly moronic rep...
Vol. 59 • August 1995 • No. 8
