In Bed with Michael Gerson on PEPFAR

If Karl Rove was Bush s brain Michael Gerson was his mouth . I wonder why anyone would want credit with either given the President s mangling of language but careers in Washington are often about reflected glory. In today s Washington Post Gerson used his column to further push the spin that the President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR has something to do with abortion. Once again for the slow learners it does not . The family planning issue with respect to PEPFAR is about voluntary contraception services about doing what the bill is supposed to do prevent HIV. Yet some Democrats in Congress and some AIDS advocates who should know better are climbing into bed with Gerson and Bush cuddling up to the GOP spin machine that promises to get PEPFAR passed regardless of how many lies are told or lives that could be saved are lost. It s risky behavior and perhaps that s part of the thrill. This one night stand is all about the dollars billion and if the price is high enough! some people will do anything. No one is practicing safe sex or politics in that strange bed fellow bed and it s unclear who is pimping whom. The Democrats will light up a cigarette and take uneasy comfort in Gerson s pillow talk pointing out that if they hadn t compromised their principles the social conservatives might have flown into a fitful rage slapped them around maybe even bruised and beaten them. Intimidated they just do what they re told silenced by the mere threat unable to stand up for themselves their principles or the people PEPFAR is supposed to serve. When it s all about the money and not about the truth it somehow seems cheap tawdry. But what s a little shame among friends especially among the political elite at the Emperor s Club where no one wears any clothes. If only they knew that PEPFAR is really about helping impoverished people in Africa fight HIV AIDS not about the ideological divide driving American politics further and further apart. See all of RH! Reality Check s extensive more substantive PEPFAR coverage. Scott Swenson s blog email this print this . . . . . comments Post new comment Your name E mail The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. Homepage Subject Comment Allowed HTML tags Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Images can be added to this post. Web and e mail addresses are automatically converted into links. Relative links are made to be relative to the drupal root directory. Glossary terms will be automatically marked with links to their descriptions More information about formatting options Math Question What is Please solve the math problem above and type in the result. e.g. for type . Continue reading The RH Blog Most Popular Today PEPFAR Beware of Americans Bearing Gifts Sen. 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