We must show magnanimity to Komen, and all others that relent to our pressures.

[JHB]

42. They do have a way out: throw out the politcal thugs and reverse those policies

The current leadership has openly shown that they have no inhibitions to using their funding as a weapon. Their decisions have been made to advance agendas that do not involve their stated mission to support research to find a cure or better treatments for breast cancer.

It was made clear in the congressional budget battles that radical conservatives consider PP a symbol, and they want to take it out completely. They want its head on a plate. Komen's leadership allied themselves with these people and moved to further that agenda no matter how it affected the same women Komen is supposed to be helping.

Yes, give them a way out: capitulation. Because this is not just about them, that is something they have made front and center here. Now it's become about showing everyone that open political thuggery by charities has consequences.

They heedlessly sailed over a line and halfway to the horizon. Letting them backpedal ten feet with no other constraints and calling it even is not an option. That has been tried, repeatedly, for far too long, and all it does is encourage them to grab for more.