Pro-lifers will oppose Shadegg. That may be why he decided to retire.
I must have missed that entire incident. What happened?
Never mind, I remember now.. I think a lot of people saw what Shadegg did as an attempt to kill the entire bill. The Stupak Amendment would have gotten the blue dog dems to vote for the bill. If Shadegg’s plan went through, the entire bill would have died as the blue dogs couldn’t support it. It is one of those moves that generates immediate negative emotional reaction but if you start to think about the strategy behind it, it made more sense.