Posted on 03/23/2010 7:32:28 PM PDT by Chet 99
There was plenty of hoopla in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday when President Obama signed his health care bill into law. But when Mr. Obama signs an executive order that secured the votes of anti-abortion Democrats, he will do so in private.
The White House announced Tuesday evening that Mr. Obama would sign the order — which it said reaffirms the health bill’s “consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion” — in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon.
The order, negotiated Sunday afternoon as the House was entering the final stages of debate on the health care bill, bars the government from spending federal money to pay for abortions through plans offered on the insurance exchanges created under the measure. The deal swayed about a half-dozen anti-abortion Democrats, led by Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, to support the bill, assuring its passage.
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He will write it on toilet paper next to the white house loo. Then Pelosi will wipe her ass with it and flush it down the toilet. And the pipe will go directly to Stupak’s office.
Tinhorn demonizing demagogue and a liar to boot.
Obama does not want any cameras around when he thanks Allah for this great victory over the citizens of the USA.
Cheryl Crow would be proud.
He’s embarrassed to provide such an open gesture on behalf of the unborn.
What a guy. /s
Wow, what a coward Ubanga is.
Yeah, right. They have a manufactured answer for everything.
He doesn’t want to “punish” us with another public display.
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