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Go wobbly?

No sir.
Mssrs. Bush went wobbly on the life issue.

They both stood forth and made it crystal clear they understood what was at stake. They had the power. They were afraid to use it to save her life.

Likewise, the Republican judges, Greer, Kennedy, the majority of the Federal judiciary: they went wobbly.

Likewise the Senate when it comes to the Nuclear Option to install strict constructionist judges who will stop the madness. They are going wobbly before our eyes.

I am standing here like a stone wall, exactly where I stood last year, the year before, ten years ago, twenty years ago. If I am standing here, I damned well expect the people I elected and supported and contributed to to stand here with me. They went wobbly. I did not.

Now, perhaps you think that loyalty to party is more important than principle. THAT is wobbly. Loyalty to party when the party was supporting the principle, yes. But if the party has not abandoned its principles, it certainly has gone wobbly in the face of fierce opposition from the other side. I wasn't the one throwing bricks at the Bushes for standing by Terri Schiavo's right to life, or throwing bricks at the Republican Senators for advocating strict constructionist judges.

I have stood firm.
THEY have gone wobbly and run away. But there is no excuse when you control the House, and the Senate by a 10% margin, have 60% of the judges, and the White House, and all of the important governorships, and the majority of state houses.
They've got no excuse.
They either have gone wobbly, or they are not really very pro-life.
If the former, the fear of defeat may focus their minds.
If the latter, they deceived me to get my vote in the first place, but now that they have power to act and won't, the jig is up.
Either pass the pro-life agenda or lose the pro-lifers.
The pro-lifers are not wobbly. They are consistent. The GOP has suddenly become inconsistent, and that ain't gonna play in Peoria.