BEGALA AWARD NOMINEE

“Before this election the Bush administration had taken every opportunity to give the extreme right-wing of his party what they’ve wanted on social issues, but they were doing it quietly. Now they’ll be more out front. I think there will be steamroller in January that will attempt to crush reproductive freedom. We’re talking about sending women back to a time when they were barefoot and pregnant.” – Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, in an absurdly crude and out-of-touch piece in Salon.