Posted on 03/18/2010 11:16:19 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle
Evil, or just Stupid?
October/November 2009, Health Care was stalled in the House, and the main sticking point was government funded abortions. There were enough Dems opposed to abortion who refused to vote for the HC bill if it contained any abortion language.
Representative Stupak (D) MI introduced his amendment that prohibited any government money from the HC bill being used to fund abortions. This essentially would end all abortions, as no medical procedures outside the Government HC System can be done. No going to a doctor and paying him directly for anything. Thus, with his amendment, ALL abortions would be illegal.
This amendment to the House bill, if it passed, would give the above 'Pro-Life' Democrats a green light to vote for the HC bill.
Not enough Democrats supported the Stupak Amendment for it to pass. Many Democrats were vociferously opposed to it. It could only pass with Republican votes.
National Right to Life favored the Stupak Amendment, and insisted that Republicans vote for it. Further, they threatened any Republican who didn't vote for it with their active opposition to that Republican during the fall election.
The Republicans caved, even those who could see the eventual outcome, right down to the last man. One hundred percent voted for the Stupak Amendment, along with a bunch of Dems who were opposed to abortions. Stupak handily passed.
Nobody believed the Amendment would stick; eventually it would/will be overridden in some fashion. Abortion is the Prime Sacrament of the Left, and will not be denied government funding, let alone be made illegal.
With a green light, the ’Pro-Life’ Dems could vote for HC, and although many hard-line Leftists were angry, enough of them also could see the end game, and agreed to vote pass HC.
A couple days later HC passed the House.
Everyone knew how this would play out, and it did. Rush spoke about it on his show.
I am of the opinion even National Right to Life knew it would play out this way. I’m not aware of anyone who thought otherwise. That leaves us with two opinions of their leadership;
1. They are so locked into their ‘stop abortion at all costs’ viewpoint that they can’t operate with a strategy that goes beyond 24 hours. Liberals like to say that ‘conservatives are stupid and easily lead’, this situation is circumstantial proof that Leftists are right from time to time. This is the NRTL Stupid Strategy.
OR
2. They have been in cahoots with the Pro-Abort crowd on this, and were complicit in getting HC passed in the House, HC which will include a monthly premium from all of us to fund abortions. This would be the NRTL Evil Strategy.
Either way, too stupid, or just evil, they are unfit to lead the movement to reduce/end abortions. Their thuggish actions have brought us to the brink of the enslavement of 300 million Americans, ending of the most advanced medical care in the entire history of the world, and will lead, ironically, to Chinese style government mandated and government funded abortions.
I am unaware of any other organization which has played such a pivotal role against Americans in this HC fight as National Right to Life has.
I think choice (1) is more correct. This group plays checkers while the other side plays chess.
This is water under the bridge, and the House GOP leadership had thorough discussions on all sides of this - with the pro-life groups and many more constituencies.
The conclusion back in November was that Stupak and others would have caved on final passage of the House bill, even if his amendment had failed, because the pro-life RATS knew that there would be ample future opportunities to re-cast a pro-life vote.
As such, it would have been the GOP voting against Stupak that would have been exploited in the November elections. In other words, voting against Stupak would have had no adverse consequences to the RATS, and tons of trouble against the GOP.
I don’t think we’ll ever know the ultimate truth, but I believe it useful to at least present the other side.
There was one other conclusion back in November: if the GOP is to be the pro-life party, it had no choice but to vote for Stupak.
You obviously over think.....
Some folks are indeed against all forms of abortion
The Hyde amendment has been the law of the land for over three decades.
Why not place the blame where it belongs???? The unions, The One, and that witch Pelosi.
And be sure to blame the ones most responsible....the GOP for spending like pigs and whores and then hoping they would get reelected. Fact is there is more than enough blame and finger pointing to go around
Nope, when it was time to make a decision on whether or not to enslave Americans, NRTL bullied itself to the front of the line and told everyone that THEY knew best how to handle this.
No one else did this, in fact everyone else warned against it. Rush did so again this morning, which prompted me to post this.
STUPID or EVIL, that’s the question on the table.
Liberals like to say that ‘conservatives are stupid and easily lead’, this situation is circumstantial proof that Leftists are right from time to time.
You are Stupid and Delusional does that equal Evil????
And by the way, Rush is not a practising Roman Catholic and would never understand someone from that particular view point who is sold on the single issue voting pattern.
Are you denying that NRTL threatened to campaign against any Republican who voted against the Stupak Amendment?
That is true, but he and others knew that a vote for Stupak was an indirect vote to have Federal Government funding of abortions.
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