Posted on 04/09/2010 5:41:37 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, the congressman who led anti-abortion rights Democrats in the House during health care negotiations, will retire this year, CBS News has learned. He is expected to announce his plans later this morning.
Had Stupak sought re-election, he would have faced challengers from both the left and the right backed by interest groups angered by Stupak's health care vote.
Stupak negotiated with Democratic leaders down to the eleventh hour for stricter abortion language in the health care bill, but he ultimately voted for it after President Obama agreed to sign an executive order assuring the new laws will keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortions.
That prompted the conservative Tea Party Express to launch a $250,000 ad campaign against Stupak this week. The group also scheduled a handful of stops on its bus tour in Stupak's district.
On the left, the abortion rights group NARAL Pro-Choice America has been working to defeat Stupak and instead elect his Democratic primary challenger Connie Saltonstall.
Like many other congressmen, Stupak received violent threats from citizens after his health care vote. However, the Michigan Democrat came under particularly intense scrutiny because of his role in the abortion debate.
I’m guessing he will be appointed as an ambassador somewhere - doubt that he and his family would be comfortable in their previous locale..... can not go out for hamburgers without the citizens chastising him.... a coward through and through....
Those you who live in the UP should shun him and his family. Refuse to have anything to do with this sell-out creep on social, business, financial and friendship levels. Let him “enjoy” his retrirement from congress shunned and ridiculed.
He traded.
We’ll not know what the trade is, but he traded.
Innocent lives for...money? position? blackmail?
Good points.
Tom Coburn will have something to say about that.
Doyle was the one who came up with the Executive Order sham that gave Stupak cover to betray his constituents.
Stupak is gone, Doyle is next!
That’s right. He will now be a miserable man for the rest of his life.
“Stupak could have been an American “hero” of sorts; instead, his is a name that will live in infamy — and now, cowardice — among American patriots.”
That is EXACTLY the way I feel.
No problems. He gets to keep his gold-plated Congressional health insurance. No grubby Obamacare for him or his family.
"Don't Stupak me" etc.... weill become part of the lexicon.
I wonder what cozy job in Obama’s administration he’s been promised?
Sadly its a few months too late.
One Down!
This is NOT good news.. better to have him run, suffer the anxiety, burn his warchest, get defeated and replaced by a Constitutional Representative. This only allows the dems to put a “fresh face” in the running and roll the dice to see if they can disqualify the GOP candidate (ala Obama’s preferred election method in Illinois).
Stupak was an easier target than some no-name triangulating blank-slate Deb who is now free to say whatever he has to to be elected, with no track record to pin him down. Just my 2 cents.
What career position did odumbo promise him for his vote?
Bump bump bump. Ba-dumpa-bump-badump!
Bump bump bump. Ba-dumpa-bump-badump!
And another one’s gone!
And another one’s gone!
And another one bites the dust!
Hey, we’re gonna git you to,
Another one bites the dust!
Whack whack whack-whack a-wanna-wanna
Whack-whack-whack a-whack-whack a-wanna-wanna...
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