Wow - so interesting that you chose to write about this. But I do need to defend NARAL and Planned Parenthood and do a bit of explaining on their behalf. Both have 501c3 status which means those funds must be spent solely on social welfare/education. They both also have 501c4 status which means that more than half of those funds must be spent on social welfare/education (they must be “primarily” education). Social welfare/education means that an organization must be bi-partisan. So these groups are legally required to endorse Republicans and they have to find a reasonable way to do that (via scoring votes) or they could lose their tax status. So, when they score confirmation, but not cloture, that is most likely their lobbyists’ efforts to keep their GOP endorsements (along with their tax status and the bulk of their funding).