Wendy Davis keeping head down during Texas special session.

Of course she will: this was all Kabuki theater to begin with.

A spokesman for Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, who stood and spoke for more than 12 hours to help kill the bill last week, says she won’t filibuster the legislation a second time.

US News and World Report went on to spout pro-abortion* propaganda: I assume that people don’t feel like reading it.  Anyway, the major problem for Davis and the Democratic party here is that, simply put, the American people are fine with limiting late-term abortion.  They are also highly amenable to the argument that minority women should not be expected to bleed out on filthy examination tables simply so that white women can enjoy unlimited access to abortion – and, believe me: pro-lifers know by now to point that out, and there’s an increasing number of felony cases that catalog just those sorts of atrocities. Continue reading Wendy Davis keeping head down during Texas special session.

On why gun control is still Senate Kabuki theater.

(H/T: Instapundit) Let me translate this:

For a second straight day, [Speaker of the House John] Boehner refused Thursday to commit to holding a full House vote on Senate-passed gun legislation. But he said the House would not ignore an issue thrust into the spotlight by the December shooting of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn.

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Any Senate bill, he said, would be referred first to the Judiciary Committee for hearings.

Translation: anything that the Senate passes will be sent to Judiciary, where it will be quietly strangled with a silken bowstring. Continue reading On why gun control is still Senate Kabuki theater.