Well, Ed,

I hope you and Midge are very happy with your most recent selection to the SCOTUS. The progressive community in PA lost of a lot of respect for you over this endorsement and, as you can see, our reservations were well warranted.

From CAP's Progress Report:

ELECTIONS MATTER: The most important vote yesterday was that of the newest justice, Samuel Alito, appointed by President Bush after he won reelection to a second term in office. As a member of the 3rd District Court of Appeals, Alito had voted in July 2000 to strike down New Jersey's ban on mid-term abortions. "The New Jersey statute," he wrote, "lacks an exception for the preservation of the health of the mother." When Alito was nominated by Bush to replace O'Connor, many of his supporters argued that his decision in this case "proved that he would not be reliably anti-choice." He earned support in his nomination process when he said he "would not bring a political agenda to the court" and would be "respectful of precedent." But once presented with the opportunity to impose new ideological law, Alito grasped it, parting ways with O'Connor and his own previous judgments. The Washington Post's Andrew Cohen writes, "You can spin this any other way you want but in the end it comes down to a simple matter of personnel. Justice Alito was willing and able to go in the law where his predecessor, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wasn't."

Maybe you need a reminder of your own stated position:

"My long-standing commitment [is] to preserve a woman's right to make decisions about her body." During Rendell's tenure as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia, manslaughter charges were brought against people who had botched illegal back-alley abortions in which women died. "I saw firsthand the horror that women were forced to go through. We can never go back. We must work to keep abortion safe, legal and rare," said Rendell.
Source: Press Release, "Rendell Receives NARAL Endorsement" Feb 21, 2002

Too bad there's no do-overs.

Kevin Shaw
Wyndmoor, PA