As expected Bart Stupak about to cave on ObamaCARE

pelosijailAnyone who believes there is such a thing as a “centrist” Democrat is kidding themselves. Anyone who thinks that Democrats like Bart Stupak wouldn’t cave to Obama and Pelosi on ObamaCARE are also fooling themselves. Suddenly Bart Stupak is getting “more optimistic” about passing the bill. Update: Now Stupak is doing damage control, saying he will not settle for an agreement to pass the bill now and fix the bill’s problems on abortion later. Why should I believe him?

Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday.

Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure.

“I’m more optimistic than I was a week ago,” Stupak said in an interview between meetings with constituents in his northern Michigan district. He was hosting a town hall meeting Monday night at a local high school.

“The president says he doesn’t want to expand or restrict current law (on abortion). Neither do I,” Stupak said. “That’s never been our position. So is there some language that we can agree on that hits both points — we don’t restrict, we don’t expand abortion rights? I think we can get there.”

Stupak has emerged as spokesman for about a dozen House Democrats who supported health legislation approved by the House in November but contend a $1 trillion version that passed the Senate the next month would authorize federal abortion subsidies. They insist on restoring stiffer restrictions Stupak added to the House measure.

Stupak had said last week that nothing had changed and he didn’t think the House leaders had the votes to pass the bill.

Stupak’s hard-line position has made him a lightning rod for abortion-rights supporters. Some accuse the 18-year lawmaker, a Roman Catholic, of allowing religious beliefs and personal opposition to abortion to jeopardize health reform. He denies it, saying the pro-choice side raised the issue by making the health bill a vehicle to expand abortion rights.

Anti-abortion lawmakers last summer urged House leaders to keep abortion out of the health debate “because it’s too divisive,” Stupak said. “So what did they do? They injected it into the debate. Everyone thinks I did; I did not.”

Clashing with his party’s leadership on the issue is unlikely to endanger Stupak’s political standing in his rural, blue-collar district, which geographically is among the biggest in the eastern U.S. It encompasses Michigan’s entire Upper Peninsula and a sizable chunk of the northern Lower Peninsula, roughly 600 miles from end to end.

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March 8, 2010 · Filed Under ObamaCARE


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  • John

    People like the Democrat party and anyone who votes for this bill are VERY EVIL PEOPLE IN THEIR HEART!! They know it is wrong and they know it is not about Health Care – CAN WE IMPEACH THE SOBS???? OUT OF OFFICE LETS HAVE THEM ALL UNDER ETHICAL VIOLATIONS BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE GUITY AND MASSO PERSON IS STUPID FOR RESIGNING!! LOOK AT RANGEL HE IS STILL THERE, THESE CRIMINALS SHOULD ALL BE PUT IN JAIL NOW!!!! I CAN NOT TAKE THIS DISREGARD FOR THE LAW BY OUR OWN POLITICIANS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!

  • Mogen David

    I knew Stupid Stupak would cave. It is way of a Polak Catholic and his church’s Socialist-Communist teachings. They want government money for all the jury awards coming for the worldwide pedophilia being exposed.