It’s the miracle of these congressional miscreants that they can be so utterly self-serving and, at the same time, so miserably un-understanding of the plight of the nation’s have-nots. Abortion is never an issue of the haves, as they fly off to France for a few weeks vacation, coming back with some great stories of cute little restaurants.

It’s never an issue of the religious right either and don’t you think for a minute that their children (married or otherwise) are exempt from that topic. Just as the great names in TV evangelism have been carted off for fleecing their flock and caught with their pants down, so do they quietly cover their tracks and those of their families. The bigger they are, the lower they crawl.

Ask Jimmy Swaggart about abstinance.

A White House statement claimed the law would "protect the health and safety of minors, as well as the rights of parents to be involved in the medical decisions of their minor daughters consistent with the widespread belief among authorities in the field that it is the parents of a pregnant minor who are best suited to provide her counsel, guidance and support."

Nearly every Republican Senator voted ‘yes’ as well as every Democratic Senator from a ‘red’ state. And thus we have dereliction on the part of all these fine specimens of representative democracy for issues relating to war, budgets, taxes, minority rights and constitutional guarantees.

But you can depend on their ability to understand the NRA and the religious right.