Angry Mouse at dailykos posted this:
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/tONXl0HHd_U/-Stupak-disappointed-abortion-almost-derailed-health-care-reformStupak disappointed abortion almost derailed health care reform
Um, really?
Ultimately, what stings the most isn't the hatred. (After all, people hate cops, lawyers, and politicians, and I've been all three.) It's that people tried to use abortion as a tool to stop health-care reform, even after protections were added.Yeah. It really sucked the way "people" tried to stop the health care reform bill. Like this guy:
"We won because <the Democrats> need us," Stupak said. "If they are going to summarily dismiss us by taking the pen to that language, there will be hell to pay. I don't say it as a threat, but if they double-cross us, there will be 40 people who won't vote with them the next time they need us -- and that could be the final version of this bill."What a jerk!
Stupak isn't just disappointed at how "people" tried to use abortion to stop health care reform. He's also disappointed that some of his best friends -- like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, whom he apparently keeps on speed dial -- wouldn't help him in his hour of need.
We also put in a final call to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had been among my strongest supporters during the fall.
I was disappointed by what I heard. No, no, no, no, they said. We need statutory law. But an executive order can have the full force of law, I said. Lincoln used one to free the slaves. George W. Bush used one to block stem-cell research using human embryos. And President Obama assures me that this is "ironclad." Besides, I said, it's time to negotiate or lose our chance to shape the bill. Help me with it? No, they said. Won't you at least look at it? No.
That call changed my relationship with the pro-life movement.Aw, poor Stupak. Double-crossed by Democrats, abandoned by all his anti-choice friends, and forced to "endure TV, radio, and bus-stop ads" -- all because some jerks in Congress "tried to use abortion as a tool to stop health-care reform."