ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE LATEST INVENTION: “Birth-Control Moms.”

But it’s distractingly oxymoronic: if you use birth control, it’s to avoid motherhood.

Except… soccer moms don’t play soccer. And security moms — is that really a famous term? — aren’t providing the security. The “mom” part of the term is about… well, what is it about? It’s what patronizing politicos call the women who they imagine don’t think, but emote and intuit their way through elections. Or perhaps, in part, it’s that women who are mothers are concerned about the children. In that light, a “birth control mom” isn’t a woman who wants her birth control devices. As a soccer mom likes to see the kids playing soccer, a birth control mom likes to see the kids using birth control, when they fuck, which they will do… you can’t stop ’em… or if you think you can, you might already be a Santorumite.

“Santorumite?” Sounds suspiciously like “sodomite.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Plus, from the comments:

Headline at Politico today: Voting Rights Act under siege.

It’s all so 1964!

Down in the eighth frickin’ paragraph:

Despite the misgivings, the final vote for the bill was a lopsided 390-33 in the House. And in the Senate, critics of the law couldn’t pick up a single no vote. It passed, 98-0.

Oh, sure, but let’s do a scare headline anyway.

Black people: no vote for you!

Women: no birth control!

Politico is getting frantic.

If the Dems were confident, would they be making such frantic efforts to shore up the core of their base?