Seeking perhaps to breathe new life into the War on Women meme, Daily Beast writer Michael Daly insisted in his April 24 story "New Attorney General Loretta Lynch Is Sex Traffickers’ Worst Nightmare" that Mexican human traffickers were positively giddy when Republicans held up the Loretta Lynch confirmation vote. Never mind, of course, that it was Democratic objections to a non-controversial human-trafficking bill that was really to blame.
"The many pimps of little Tenancingo in Mexico had cause to laugh as the Senate Republicans used a human trafficking bill to hold up the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. attorney general," Daly noted in the open of his story, "But the pimps—or padrotes—of that town 80 miles outside Mexico City have cause to cry now that the Senate has finally confirmed Lynch by a vote of 56 to 43."
After spending the rest of the article hailing Lynch's prosecutions of human traffickers, Daly closed with GOP bashing:
The pimps still at liberty—particularly the five on the 10 Most Wanted List—could not have been happy to learn in November 2014 that their nemesis had been nominated to become the new U.S. attorney general.
Then, along with the pimps behind bars, they were given cause for amusement when Senate Republicans blocked a confirmation vote with, of all things, a human trafficking bill.
Anybody who gives such monsters reason to laugh brings shame on those who give it.
No doubt Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would be welcome if he heads down to Tenancingo next September and joins the padrotes in their procession.
