Saving Stupak's Face

[Me.]

That's what this executive order business is all about. But why? Do they or don't they have the votes without he and his little pack of troublemaker's? If they do why not let him and his arrogant self hang out to dry? Some of the interviews he's given have shown him to be a controlling, self involved little....well you supply the word. A band of anti-abortion gangsters holding a bill hostage because they don't life that abortion is legal. The pro-choicers better make sure of the language of any signing statement before agreeing to it.

[old mark]

1. I'd rather see them kicking his ass, but they are being very careful

to cultivate the right wing Dems - as usual for the Obama administration.

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[defendandprotect]

2. Catholics want government run health care...and Contraception + Abortion included-!!!

So who Stupak and the US Catholic Bishops are allegedly representing seems only to

be male-supremacist interests . . . !!!

But, Pelosi ran to the side of the US Catholic Bishops quickly enough in a private meeting --

plus phone call from "Rome" -- Wow!!

Just as many Catholic women as any other women have abortions!!

In Ireland, 7,000 women a year are traveling to the UK for abortions!!

[backscatter712]

3. I think Pelosi's got 216, but wants a cushion

She's just not willing to give away the store to get that cushion.

I think a few of Stupak's groupies are looking for an out and an excuse to vote for the bill, thus the executive order, which sounds like it would do little more than repeat the existing Hyde Amendment ban on spending federal money on abortions.

It's a face-saver. Stupak lost. :fistbump:

[Me.]

4. 'Xactly