We do not live our lives in a compartmentalized fashion, much as we might like to think that we do. What we do in one area, affects all of the others, for good or ill. Can a Congressman have a 68% negative voting record on abortion-related issues and not become unhinged? North Carolina Representative Bob Etheridge (D) seems to have lost it when approached on the street by two persons identifying themselves as college students. The Congressman assaults both the cameraman and interviewer, when all he needed to do was politely say, “Here’s my card. Contact my office. I don’t do street interviews with non-mainstream media.
People who vote for the slaughter of innocents have a mindset that allows for victimizing those without a voice. I doubt that the good Congressman would have had the same response to two men in their forties with much more sophisticated and expensive equipment. See the video here:
Here is some of his voting record from National Right to Life:
Status …Name of Legislation … Date Voted …Score
P Obama health care bill: abortion and rationing 03/21/2010 Yea
A Stupak-Pitts Amendment (to prohibit federal funding of abortion and federal subsidies for insurance coverage of abortion) 11/08/2009 Yea
F Deny certain federal funds to Planned Parenthood (Title X) 07/24/2009 Nay
P District of Columbia funding bill (public funding of elective abortion) 07/16/2009 Yea
P Foreign Relations Authorization Act (Office for Global Women’s Issues) 06/10/2009 Yea
F Deny certain federal funds to Planned Parenthood 07/19/2007 Nay
F Smith-Stupak Amendment to protect pro-life “Mexico City Policy” 06/21/2007 Nay
P “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007” (S. 5): passage 06/07/2007 Yea
F Phony ban on human cloning (DeGette clone-and-kill bill) 06/06/2007 Yea
P Medicare Prescription Drug Price Negotiation Act (H.R. 4): passage 01/12/2007 Yea
F “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act” (H.R. 3): anti-cloning amendment 01/11/2007 Nay
P “Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act” (H.R. 3): passage 01/11/2007 Yea
F Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act: passage 12/06/2006 Nay
P Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act: (CIANA): passage of revised bill 09/26/2006 Yea
F Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810): veto override 07/19/2006 Yea
F Abortion in military medical facilities 05/10/2006 Yea
F Coercive abortion / United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 06/16/2005 Yea
F Abortion in military medical facilities 05/25/2005 Yea
P Funding of embryo-killing stem cell research (H.R. 810) 05/24/2005 Yea
F Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act: (CIANA): hostile Scott Amendment 04/27/2005 Yea
F Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (CIANA): hostile Lee Amendment 04/27/2005 Yea
An angry, paranoid man. He knows he is wrong so lashes out at basically…teenagers (college age yes, but they looked, sounded very young). Charming.
But what can one expect from someone who sanctions and funds the killing of babies?…
Charming fellow.
Poll: Etheridge in dead heat after confrontation
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/103945-poll-etheridge-in-dead-heat-after-confrontation
By sheer, discrete mathematics, it is 138 days until Nov 2. But in the interim, God is so good when he reveals our faults, fallacies and warts.