The Roberts Nomination Fight Begins

Progress for America volunteers stood silent but resolute outside the Supreme Court building starting around 7 a.m. Wednesday morning to express support for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Rather than incessant chanting, PFA will spend $1 million on grass-roots efforts and TV, radio, and Internet advertising. The ads will urge the Senate to give Roberts a “fair up-or-down vote.”

Approximately 10 PFA volunteers held signs, which in media parlance means that PFA was never there and therefore does not deserve mention in the Associate Press story, which reported:

Several hundred women marched Wednesday morning in front of the Supreme Court, which faces the east front of the U.S. Capitol, carrying signs that said, "Save Roe!" and "Our bodies, our lives, our right to decide!"

There were closer to 135 pink-shirted Planned Parenthood protestors, including the 9 robed women (an all-female Supreme Court-- now that would be interesting) and one fake priest. One would think that the term “hundreds” should require at least 200, if not 300.

Still, the vibrant chants were impossible to ignore: “George W. listen here / Your war on women stops here.” These people apparently believe that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (bio) is a mere pawn in a two-front war, one in Iraq (against a lot of people who are hostile to women’s rights) and one here at home against women. Next time, try something more fun and accurate: “George W. grab a beer / Listen to our politics of fear.”