Posted on 11/03/2009 2:43:56 AM PST by jenk
After signaling for months that he has enough votes in Congress to kill the Health Care Bill, Bart Stupak may not even be in DC to vote.
Elaine Olsen, Stupak’s mother-in-law unexpectedly passed away in Escanaba on Sunday. May she rest in peace.
For months and months, Stupak has been telling constituents and making headline news that he leads a group of about 40 Democrat legislators who vow to vote down the health care bill currently on the schedule in the House. The vote will presumably take place on Friday.
Stupak’s main problem with the bill is that it contains wording that will allow for the federal funding of abortion. Recently, he stated that “even if it costs him his seat,” he will not vote for abortion funding. Catholic News Agency writes:
“Democratic leaders, including President Obama, have claimed that no federal funds would be used to pay for abortions, but this is a deception, because the public plan will be a federal agency program that can spend only federal funds. The federal government would pay abortion providers for performing elective abortions – a sharp break from decades of federal policy.”
An absolute must-read from theblogprof shows the stark contrasts of Catholic opinion in congress over the bill.
Without a leader there to voice opposition to federally funded abortion in the health care bill, will the other Catholic House members of the Democrat majority do anything about the provision?
(Excerpt) Read more at jennerationx.wordpress.com ...
Half a vote is better than none.
The good guys are more vulnerable to this sort of bad luck than the socialists. Obama and Pelosi have no one in their lives that they care about enough to interrupt their drive for power.
Even though he was willing to counter Pelosi, and bragged about stopping the abortion portion of the bill, I would never characterize Stupak as “one of the good guys.”
He has put himself up as leader of this fight, he won’t be there to strip the bill of the abortion ingredients prior to the vote.
In a battle as deadly as that between freedom and Obama, I'll take any allies I can get. Just as Stalin was one of the good guys in WW2, in the sense that he stood with us against Hitler, Stupak may be a bit of a liberal but he's on the side of good in this particular battle.
‘unexepectedly’ passed away.....
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