This whole damned bill plays politics with life. They are insane and blood thirsty for power.
We know that they are working hard to strip the Stupak ammendment from the Senate Bill.
Anyone with an ounce of morality and courage should have voted no for the House Bill. This is a bill that will strip liberty and freedoms from all Americans.
No, I don’t believe it would have killed the bill either, but it did give many blue dogs cover to say, well I voted for it after they took out the abortion funding. I believe Republicans should have cast a “not voting” vote and let the pro-life dems. sink.. Repubs. just have no clue how to fight dirty.
The Stupak amendment did not provide for the equal protection of the laws for ALL persons, as required by the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments. Therefore the moral and constitutional vote was “nay.”
Unfortunately for the thousands of children who continue to be slaughtered every day, NRTL and their Republican allies don’t care about that any more. They’re too busy raising money and playing political games.
The irony is that they’re not even very good at that. The amendment accomplished nothing but to give political cover to craven politicians who thought they needed it. In both parties.
I have been thinking about this and just might get majorly flamed for saying it, but...
When it comes to this very, very unConstitutional bit of legislation
I don’t care about an abortion amendment. Caring about an abortion amendment means I am willing to accept the rest of the bill...if it doesn’t include baby murder.
I don’t care about an amendment dealing with the LBGT diseases. Caring about the religious amendments is a red herring to pass the bill.
This isn’t about religion for me...it is about the Constitution, liberty, and smaller government.
Use some caution here and don’t be so accepting of the amendments, when the rest of the bill still puts the chains that kill on all of us. The little amendment “wins” really are not wins at all. Wake up and realize when your religious beliefs are being used against you.
If that was true then they would NOT have supported the amendment because Obamacare will care far more people than this amendment would save.
This is exactly why the two party system is a failure in this country.
The fact of the matter is...the Stupak amendment gave the first opportunity for this bill to pass.
Since the Republicans all voted no on the bill itself and they knew they weren’t going to vote for it...then voting for the Stupak amendment was unethical. Think about it - you know you are not going to vote for the bill and no amount of amendments proposed will change your mind...so what do you do - you either vote no - THE RIGHT THING TO DO - or you vote present - THE CORWARDLY THING TO DO
But voting yes you might make some political hay with a particular group but you doomed the nation one step closer to Obamacare.
The fact that any politician tells you amendment is the “right” thing to do...give me a break...WHEN HAVE THEY EVER HAD THE COURAGE TO DO THE RIGHT THING?
The answers for our country are NOT with the Democrats or Republicans.
Yeah to all that thought the Stupak amendment was a good idea...now Obama is going to strike it from the health care bill.
Yeah really smart STUPID GOP to support this so the moderate DEM’s would then vote for the bill...this could have been stopped in the house if it weren’t for the GOP supporting this amendment.
Just another fine example of the GOP pandering to a special interest and the country gets screwed.