Regrettably, Bart Stupak (D-I’ll Believe Anything Obama Says) has caved and is the last person in America to rely on the words of President Obama when he makes a promise.
This is the end of it, unfortunately, and here’s hoping some of the other pro-life Democrats aren’t quite as gullible as he is.
Stalinization of Health Care here or there, as a pro-life Catholic myself, I cannot even express in words my disappointment in this good man’s mistake.
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from TML)
UPDATE: Congressman Stupak was just on Greta’s show and either could not or would not answer her direct question about the FACT that the president could just as easily rescind his Executive Order. I have watched him many times in the past several months, and have found him to be a man of great conviction and principle. I’m not a shrink, but what I see in him right now is a beaten man. I honestly do not think he believes himself that this is going to work, and that it is truly worth only the paper it’s written on (or worse, worth only the already-proven unreliable word of President Obama). I don’t know just what to think of this. I’ll go ahead and put it out there: Either I completely miscalculated the character of Stupak (least likely, I think), or his gullibility. Or, worst of all, there’s something else sinister going on. I guess we’ll see in time.
UP-UPDATE: Having just watched the spectacle of Congressman Bart Stupak disingenuously (the only word to describe it, given how much we’ve been through with him) demonizing the Republicans for having the temerity to expect him and others who voted for this pro-abortion to live up to their own votes, I owe our readers an apology.
I try to stay away from cynicism, but that’s no excuse for not having my eyes open. Congressman Stupak’s craven and dispicable words (and forthcoming spineless vote—they’re voting on the motion to reconsider as I’m typing this), combined with the below video, showing him declaring back in November that, at the end of the day, he’d still vote for Obamacare, even if he didn’t get his anti-taxpayer-funded-abortion language in the bill leads me to believe that I’ve been suckered by this man all along.
I should have made myself aware of this video long ago. Had I, I would never have used his possible hold-out position as a principled stand for life. I have let you down, and apologize.
I think it’s important to remember that Bart Stupak, like many pro-life Democrats, is still a liberal. I don’t doubt that he is pro-life, but he is still principally a liberal who wants to vote for lots of things we as conservatives do not believe in, including this healthcare bill. I don’t think he is a bad guy, and ultimately I think he is more principled than most Democrats, but I do think he is gullible on this executive order thing and is just hoping it works as an adequate pro-life measure so that he can vote for the bill he otherwise supports. (I still signed up as a fan of his opponent on Facebook, for what it’s worth.)
Bart Stupak is a good American, but we shouldn’t put our trust in guys like him. He has vastly different ideas about the role of government than most of us do. We had reason to hope that agreement on the life issue would lead him to vote against this bill we hate, but that hope became too much of an expectation. I certainly wish more Democrats would support the unborn’s right to life, but as part of a larger movement (the Democratic party and liberalism in general), we’re seeing how being a pro-life Democrat doesn’t count for much in the end. Compare them with ostensibly pro-choice Republicans like Sen. Snowe, Collins, and Brown, who have and will continue to vote against government funding of abortion, something not true of either Bart Stupak or Ben Nelson.
Perhaps Stupak realizes that the only way to effectively reduce abortions is to give women access to prenatal care through insurance.
Stupak is on tape telling us exactly what he was going to do and he did it. It’s all over the web, we can NOT trust democrats, liberals, progressives!!! These are not normal people they want to CONTROL us and they’re on a roll. There are all kinds of bad things in this bill.