Michael Moore: My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain

[marmar]

Published on Saturday, March 20, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
My Congressman, Bart Stupak, Has Neither a Uterus Nor a Brain

by Michael Moore


Friends,

I live in Michigan, in one of the 31 counties represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by none other than Mr. Bart Stupak, a Democrat. You've probably never heard of him. He's a pretty quiet guy, a former Michigan State Police trooper who boldly decided to run some 18 years ago as a Democrat in a rural part of Michigan that votes almost exclusively for Republicans (yes, I know -- what am I doing here? I'll save that story for a future letter).

His voting record is pretty conservative for a Democrat, but he's had a few shining moments. In the wake of the Columbine shootings, he voted for some gun control, a not-too-popular position to take here in northern Michigan. The NRA came after him with all they had in 2000.

But the good people of this area knew Bart's story and understood: He's been touched personally by gun violence. In a terrible tragedy, his teenage son, depressed and confused from the medication he'd been prescribed, killed himself with the family's .38 revolver. Despite the NRA's best efforts, Bart was returned to Congress by an overwhelming margin.

Yet, here we are, just days before a weak, simple-minded, but now ultimately necessary health care bill has a chance of making it through Congress -- and Bart Stupak is threatening to derail it because he wants to make sure that no woman WHO BUYS HER OWN INSURANCE with HER OWN MONEY is able to have a medically-insured abortion. We're not talkin' about federally-funded abortions -- those were stupidly outlawed long ago. Bart Stupak doesn't like that the Democrats' bill doesn't prohibit private insurance programs, set up for those whose employers don't provide it, from providing abortion coverage if they get any federal funding -- even to an individual woman paying without any government help. That's it. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/20-1

[Warpy]

1. I'd like to add one thing to this, Stupak is being opposed in the primary

Here is his opponent's website. I donated last week.

http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/24052

[RevCheesehead]

2. You gotta love Michael Moore.

Just for the title of the article alone. :rofl:

[madmax]

3. or balls. nt

[bigdarryl]

4. OH SHIT!!!! I almost fell out the chair laughing so hard when I heard he said this

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!!

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