Wednesday, March 23, 2005
PowerLine catching up with me on GOP memogate-gate
Seems I scooped the Hinney's rocket by a good 8 hours on the fact much of the language in the "Schiavo's a great political issue" memo is duplicated in the Traditional Family Values talking points from March 8. You can feel free to use up his bandwidth and download the memo. Oooh yeah, he's got it.
I'll provide for him the Reader's Digest version of my early morning post,
- There are obvious errors in the alleged GOP memo - and those errors are duplicated in the Family Values Coalition talking points posted March 8th:
- Duplicated Error # 1 - incorrectly punctuates "Persons" in "The Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act of 2005."
- Duplicated Error # 2 - incorrectly changes "the court" to "a court" in "those parties authorized or directed by the court order to withdraw or withhold food, fluids, or medical treatment"
- The punctuation errors are also in Rep. Weldon and Sen. Martinez press release.
- The National Right to Life Coalition posted the text of the proposed legislation on March 4th - three days before Mel Martinez introduced it to the Senate. The text of their bill includes Error #1. Plus a whole lot of other differences between that actual introduced legislation.
Is it a coincidence that Rep. Weldon, Sen. Martinez, the NRLC and Family Values coalition all made the same errors? Did the NRLC write the legislation or did Marinez or Weldon give the NRLC a preview? Can Hinney explain to me what is going on here?
// posted by Erik @ 3/23/2005 01:47:00 PM
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