They Never Existed In The First Place

Evan McMorris-Santoro wonders why every single member of the House GOP who took money from the Republican Majority For Choice PAC voted for the brutally anti-choice HR 3 bill.

For pro-choice Republicans, the vote means embarrassing questions. Basically every pro-choice group says H.R. 3 is an anti-abortion bill that goes far beyond the government's current prohibitions on abortion funding and actually raises taxes on women who want to seek abortion coverage in their private insurance plans.

That's a double-whammy for pro-choice Republicans. One, raising taxes under any circumstances is a no-no for anyone in the modern GOP. And, two, the bill has been cast as the biggest assault on abortion rights in years.

Voting against such a measure, then, would seem like a no-brainer. Except it wasn't. None of the about a dozen House GOP members the the Republican Majority For Choice PAC considers allies voted against H.R. 3. In fact, all of them voted yes.

"We opposed the bill, we considered it an anti-choice, big government intrusion and politically we think it's a bad move for the Republicans to keep focusing on this," K.R. Ferguson, executive director of the PAC told TPM.

Still, she says that she's not prepared to say the members who voted for it have given up their pro-choice credentials. She pointed to the refusal of some Republicans to sign on to the House plan to defund Planned Parenthood as the kind of thing that will keep the PAC's endorsement coming.

"I would not say we would stop supporting any of the members who took this vote," Ferguson said. She said that though it's hard to rectify being pro-choice and voting for H.R. 3, support from her PAC isn't "an all or nothing" prospect.

Seems to me that either all the Republicans who got the support of the RMFC PAC are full of crap or the PAC itself just exists to sneak in anti-choice Republicans into purple districts.  And since the set of anti-choice Republicans in the House now includes all Republicans in the House, I'm going to go with both.

There are no pro-choice Republicans in Congress.  Anyone who says they are is lying to you, because they think you're stupid enough to give to a Republican "pro-choice" PAC.