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.
Pro-lifers are the monkey, and Shadegg is the organ grinder shouting "Dance, monkey, dance!"
It's not that I don't see the sense. I just don't want to be treated like a monkey.
If pro-lifers think they are being treated like monkeys, they will happily stay home.
And actually, it didn’t make sense. I know people think that Catholics and other pro-lifers are automatons who only vote according to programming, but if the Stupak Amendment had failed due to GOP shenanigans, not only would the GOP-Pro-Life coalition have been permanently ruptured, but all the Blue Dogs would have been clear to pass ObamaCare even with abortion funding, and that would have made negotiations with the Senate much easier. The only people punished at the polls would have been the GOP.