By Dave Andrusko
During Sunday night’s debate, after Bernie Sanders listed a boatload of core Democrat issues on which Biden once took a different position than had Sanders, including the Hyde Amendment, Biden brushed it off.
“We can argue about the past or the future.”
So much for foolish consistency.

Photo: Gage Skidmore
By now former Vice President Biden’s penchant for confusion is so obvious, it’s the menagerie in the room. After a botched attempt at a virtual town hall meeting on Saturday (it was so embarrassingly awful even CNN described it as a “technical calamity”), the bar was set so low that all Biden needed to do was not fall asleep during his one-on-one debate with Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders to secure a passing grade.
As always, commentators differed widely over how well the candidates performed. But almost all agreed that Biden was smart to announce early on that he would select a woman to be his running mate and that he would “appoint the first black woman to the courts,” by which Biden obviously meant the Supreme Court. Those would be the key takeaways, regardless of anything else.
However, here are three more important takeaways for us.
#1. The moderators told us they had “solicited questions from undecided Democratic voters.” One inquiry was about abortion asked of two pro-abortion candidates.
Sanders’ position during the debate (as before) was that he’s been a faithful, no-exceptions, no deviation favorite of the Abortion Lobby. Biden’s approach (again)was to offer a tortuous explanation of why he’d dropped his opposition to the Hyde Amendment (political expediency never comes off well) and to vow that he would be a real go-getter as President.
#2. So, if doubling-down on his new position on the Hyde Amendment was Number One, Biden’s “Number Two” action would be to
send immediately to the desk of the United States Congress, when I’m elected president — if I’m elected president, a codification of Roe v. Wade amended by Casey, because I think it is a woman’s right to choose. I think it’s a woman’s opportunity to be able to make that decision. And, in fact, I have gotten 100 percent rating from NARAL as well.
SANDERS: Excuse me, you have a lifetime 100 percent voting record from NARAL?
BIDEN: I know my record of late from NARAL has been 100 percent. I don’t know whether it was 25 years ago
Details, details.
“Codification of Roe” is abortionspeak for abortion on demand throughout the entire pregnancy, paid for by the public. It also means a refusal to allow a debate on the Born-Again Abortion Survivors Protection Act. Babies who survive an abortion are just as much on their own as babies in utero.
#3. Just a reminder of what you already know. The names of a number of women were floated as potential running mates for Biden. All—all—are pro-abortion. If there were any “differences” between Biden and any of the women mentioned, they would be so thin you couldn’t slip a piece of rice paper between them.
There are four more primaries on Tuesday — Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio.
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