[stars & stripes forever]

I wouldn’t take the word of a person regarding life who won’t even say where and when and if he was born.

[EagleUSA]

ANYTHING to pass this egregious, disastrous power grab....

[MNJohnnie]

Sure. As believable as being told “the check is in the mail” or “Of course I will still respect you in the morning”.

[Kahuna]

This is the fix that will give Stupak and his buds cover. Game over.

[freekitty]

Haven’t the dems learned that Obama is a liar?

[Commander X]

Wouldn’t this piss-off the Pro-abortion critters?

[bigbob]

And Stupak will be stupid enough to believe them...and cave.

I’ve never thought otherwise. He is a Democrat, first.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Pro-abortion members won't like this unless Obama assures them he will later rescind it.

[NoobRep]

This seems pretty asinine to me. There are about 30 Dems in Congress who would have NOW and Planned Parenthood up their backsides in two seconds.

[DanielRedfoot]

That would be absolute garbage on so many levels.

First of all, as a senator, Obama was one of the few supporters of the law to allow “failed” abortions, meaning if the late term child actually accidentally poped out before it could be killed, the “physician” could just sit the live child aside and let it die of exposure.

He is an EXTREME pro abortion bastard, he will never follow through on this.

Second, if he does this, when Republicans get the Whitehouse they can then have the precedent to pass any and all major legislation with a simple executive order including overturning SCOTUS rulings et.al.

[HarleyD]

Executives orders are only good for as long as the president is in power.

[truthkeeper]

Oh please. What a bunch of suckers.

[what's up]

So the pro-deathers are gonna go for this?

[firebrand]

Leiningen and the Ants.

[skeeter]

And what will the shelf life be on that EO?

[ncalburt]

the fact the Obama front group named AP is peddling this lie means that DO Not have the votes.

[Will88]

As others have said, an executive order still won’t appease the Dims threatening to vote no on each side of the abortion issue: Stupak’s group if the Senate language isn’t changed, and the pro-abortion Dims if the Senate language is weakened or abandoned.

Somebody, somewhere in this issue is selling out.

[OldDeckHand]

The Executive Order is probably one of the most misunderstood elements of Executive authority. It cannot undo enacted legislation. To put it simply, the President has to cite a specific piece of legislation that empowers him to set or refine guidelines.

If the abortion language in the Senate bill (H.R. 3590) says "X", an Executive Order cannot make it say "Y". It just doesn't work that way - ask Harry Truman.

[Man50D]

Why not just issue an executive order for the whole freaking unconstitutional, socialist health care bill? Is such a move the socialists are considering in and of itself unconstitutional?

[Kimberly GG]

....”except for cases of rape or incest or when the mother’s life is threatened. “

Will the lefties be satisfied with that?

I wonder if Obama is going LIVE soon to comment on it?