"They made many promises, but kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did."
Of course they were “played.”
Anyone that believes that negotiating with people that actively promote the killing of another human being is honorable should be ashamed.
Just as with the Islamofascists it is perfectly acceptble to LIE to NON-believers.
Stupak wanted a fig leaf, and got it. Or else he's got the intelligence of an amoeba (no offense to amoebae, of course).
Of interest, the GOP could have killed the health care bill by voting against the amendment and it would not have carried.
Mr. Boehner responded, “it is quite clear this could be a shell game underway. . . . I have my doubts this language if it passes has any chance of being in the final version of the bill.”
GNS! Ya think????
Abso-freaking-lutely.
I knew it last night when I first heard of it.
WE ARE SUCH SUCKERS.
This is NOT about abortion. That’s a ruse. A distraction.
This is about the government TAKEOVER of society. All of it. They can get around silly abortion restriction clauses in their “health bill” anytime they want. And you know it and I know it. Just take it before any lib court. Just wait for ObamaFacist to issue an EXECUTIVE ORDER.
We were played because fundamentally, as a group, WE ARE STUPID.
This was the most stupid thing. How is this amendment anything to celebrate about? I mean does anyone in the pro-life community believe that Nancy Pelosi and liberal Democrats in general have any qualms about finding ways around this? This was stupid. It offered cover to a bill that will take all of our rights to disagree on the health care issue. The Senate thankfully will provide the battlefield on which to take down this bill. Anyone who was celebrating this as a pro-life victory are fools. The only thing that I found interesting is that there were that many pro-life Democrats. That has to drive the far left crazy.
There are plenty of Christian Socialists. Europe is full of them and so is the Democratic Party.
Heck, by some measures, Bush was a Christian Socialist.
The Washington Times gets it, but only in part. The perfidy is even worse than they seem to understand.
Republicans, unfortunately, care more for the appearance of being pro-life than they do for the substance of being pro-life.
And it allowed Pelosi and Obama to take a huge stride towards the finishing off of American liberty.
The winnowing season continues apace...
The GOP is Charlie Brown....the rats are Lucy with the football.
EVERY TIME
Abortion is a “medical procedure”, so by default it will ultimately be covered by the government healthcare system; furthermore, using the perverted “logic” of leftists, the “procedure may in fact be considered a “preferred procedure” in the future, given that it will “reduce” the overall costs of an additional patient.
From what I understood last night the republican’s wanted to vote agaisnt this but since many of the anti abortiongroups couldn’t see past the ends of their noses and past how anti life the whole bill is their hands were forced to vote for it.Very stupid of thse groups to not see that.
Suckers.....
Pro-Life Advocates Upset Republicans May Vote Present on Stupak Amendment [electoral death warrants]It lays out the issues pretty well. Those who supported voting "yes" had the poorer arguments, IMHO. One could certainly vote "present" if that vote meant death for this monstrosity of a bill. Voting present wouldn't lose sensible pro-lifers. A vote of "present" would be easy to explain to anyone with an open mind. Those who argued against Shaddag's approach couldn't answer objections cogently or calmly. They tended to resort to abusive, ad hominem tactics.
And they KNEW they were being played...their turn to now play you (well, not you specifically but the idiot sheople of this country)