Step 2: Ballot box (2010)
Step 3. Ammo box (if #2 fails)
Posted on 03/21/2010 12:47:18 PM PDT by Rational Thought
The White House and anti-abortion Democrats have reached an agreement to defusethe controversy over abortion in the health reform bill – planning a series of steps that will secure the support of Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) and other Democrats to give party leaders the votes they need to pass reform, sources tell POLITICO.
Under the agreement, President Barack Obama would sign an executive order ensuring that no federal funding will go to pay for abortion under the health reform plans. In addition, Stupak will get to state his concerns about abortion funding in the bill during a colloquy on the House floor during the debate.
And then, Stupak and several other Democratic hold-outs over abortion will sign on to the bill, the sources said. The agreement would almost certainly give House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the 216 votes she needs to secure an historic health reform vote by day’s end – capping a year-long drive to achieve Obama’s signature legislative goal.
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There you go. That tells you all you need to know. He caved.
In the end, they went with the Party. They loved Big Brother.
Obama believes his pen carries the might of a god.
This will give them many more than 216 votes. He’s not pro-life but he knows his district is. He’s a career politician like the rest.
The way things have gone, I want to hear Stupak explain it.
If true and an Executive Order is to be used, I would think that in itself would be challenged in court and might kill this bill.
Otherwise, we now have the line item veto (more making up the rules as we go).
they fooled him last November and they’ll do it again. they will not vote on this if it’s going to fail.
If true, Stupid Stupak just agreed to his re-election failure. Michigan is already in a depression.
I now include Fox “News” in the slimedia.
This “president” can do anything he wants to do. And the “Stupaks” in congress have been threatened with something much more frightening that a lost election.
I hope his priest refuses him communion.
Bait and switch...anything Obama promises Stupak now can be undone later when it is too late.
In the end a snake is just a snake.
Step 2: Ballot box (2010)
Step 3. Ammo box (if #2 fails)
An executive order won’t kill the bill. It is totally separate from the legislation. The legislation stands on it’s own with or without an executive order or reconcilliation in the senate.
Stupak—a typical leftist. The PRO LIFE stuff comes WAAAAAAY down the line in order of importance. Wait till he finds out he sacrificed his house seat by being SCAMMED by Hussein!!!
Gentlemen, start your abortions!
Leni
That is first semester law school stuff. You are right. An EO can’t overrule explicitly passed legislation. This fig leaf is more like a g string. If yhis report is true then stupak should have this legislation hung around his neck (after he is tarred and feathered)!
Larry Sabato said yesterday it would pass the House. Larry is almost always right. Billy Cunningham said on his radio show last Sunday they would somehow manage to find the votes and it would pass. I feared he was right and he is.
Yes but the femino nazis may NOW refuse to sign. I HOPE!!!!
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