by Robert Costa,National Review
Stupak says Pelosi &Obama are unwilling to back down
Sitting in an airport,on his way home to Michigan,Rep. Bart Stupak,a pro-life Democrat,is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says,in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point,there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes,it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
According to Stupak,that group of twelve pro-life House Democrats — the “Stupak dozen” — has privately agreed for months to vote ‘no’ on the Senate’s health-care bill if federal funding for abortion is included in the final legislative language. Now,in the debate’s final hours,Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.,Calif.). “I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted,and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters,like unions.”
Stupak says he also doesn’t trust the “Slaughter solution,” a legislative maneuver being bandied about on Capitol Hill as a way to pass the Senate bill in the House without actually voting on it. “Fool me once,shame on you. Fool me twice,shame on me,” he says. “I don’t have a warm-and-fuzzy feeling about what I’m hearing.”
Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing. “I really believe that the Democratic leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance,” he says. “Their position says that women,especially those without means available,should have their abortions covered.” The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations,he adds,“are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
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Where have all the people gone that have a backbone and their yes be yes and their no be no. Wish we could tar and feather them.
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