Posted on 01/03/2011 4:30:08 AM PST by jenk
After spending a good part of last year blogging for the man who would take the First District of Michigan away from liberal Bart Stupak, and put it back into the hands of mainstream conservatism, I take serious umbrage at the use of the words, "Stupak amendment" and "Stupak language."
Bart Stupak was not a conservative Democrat, nor was he a "blue dog." His "Stupak amendment" was actually the "Stupak/Pitts amendment," and it became known as the "Stupak amendment" only because he was on television and radio constantly for a month prior to the vote on Obamacare saying that the bill would not be passed without "his" amendment, banning the use of federal funds for abortions. His constituency, and many social conservatives throughout the nation thought that Stupak was going to stop Obamacare. After watching Bart at town halls and on tv and radio, I knew he was not going to vote against Obamacare. He said so at a Cheboygan Town Hall, and took a position of high morality on abortion against the likes of Pelosi and Obama. He ended up getting a useless executive order which meant nothing from the most pro-abortion President this nation has ever seen.
So it really becomes too much when Fred Upton, a fellow Michigander and fellow Republican continues to use the words, "Stupak language," and "Stupak amendment."
Sunday on Fox News Sunday, Congressman Upton was describing his intentions as Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee:
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“So it really becomes too much when Fred Upton, a fellow Michigander and fellow Republican continues to use the words, “Stupak language,” and “Stupak amendment.”
Doesn’t that suggest a certain after-the-fact “non-ownership”? Upton intends to work it but is not yet ready to share in owning it?
Upton and others like him better get with the program, here and now but why wait for politicians to update a characerization for us? To accept (almost verbatim) such technically incorrect characterizations is to allow the power of suggestion to be abused by elected officials. As if we’re not in a position to straighten them out from time to time. However, it may eventually come back to haunt those who would make it their business to do so but I for one, am not willing to let go of that idea.
well put, exactly
We can thank Bart Judas Stupak for one thing: he finally proved that there is no such thing as a pro-life “dimocrat.”
“He ended up getting a useless executive order which meant nothing”
I might have missed it but I don’t recall Obama ever issuing that order.
lol....how’d I miss that?
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