Saturday, April 14, 2012

Gov. Heineman unexpectedly raised the Planned Parenthood bogeyman as one reason he vetoed the prenatal-care bill. Some would call this a straw man; others would call it a scurrilous lie. So, let's split the difference and call it a scurrilous straw man lie. Still, it beats his original veto message, which compared undocumented babies to scavenging raccoons and noted: "Sure, they're cute now, but they're still gonna grow up to be Mexicans."

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