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Kathy Dahlkemper: I Wouldn't Have Voted for Obamacare If I'd Known About HHS Rule
The Weekly Standard ^ | February 7, 2012 | JOHN MCCORMACK

Posted on 02/08/2012 3:49:52 AM PST by RobinMasters

Former Democratic congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper, a Catholic from Erie, Pennsylvania, cast a crucial vote in favor of Obamacare in 2010. She lost her seat that November in part because of her controversial support of Obamacare.

But Dahlkemper said recently that she would have never voted for the health care bill had she known that the Department of Health and Human Services would require all private insurers, including Catholic charities and hospitals, to provide free coverage of contraception, sterilization procedures, and the "week-after" pill "ella" that can induce early abortions.

"I would have never voted for the final version of the bill if I expected the Obama Administration to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic Colleges and Universities to pay for contraception,” Dahlkemper said in a press release sent out by Democrats for Life in November.

"We worked hard to prevent abortion funding in health care and to include clear conscience protections for those with moral objections to abortion and contraceptive devices that cause abortion. I trust that the President will honor the commitment he made to those of us who supported final passage."

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1 posted on 02/08/2012 3:49:57 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

I guess it’s like Nancy Pelosi said, “Democrats have to pass the bill, so people can find out they are represented by Morons.” (I may have edited her quote slightly for clarity.)


2 posted on 02/08/2012 3:53:14 AM PST by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: RobinMasters

What? You mean that you didn’t read the bill, Kathy?


3 posted on 02/08/2012 3:53:50 AM PST by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL VOTING. Let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: RobinMasters

What? You mean that you didn’t read the bill, Kathy?


4 posted on 02/08/2012 3:54:28 AM PST by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL VOTING. Let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: RobinMasters

Uh huh... riiiight!

LLS


5 posted on 02/08/2012 3:55:40 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (Hey repubic elite scumbags... jam mitt up your collective arses!)
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To: Flintlock

Really; she should be wearing sackcloth and ashes, and begging God’s forgiveness in her role murdering children.

As people age and they realize they’re going to be meeting God, I guess a lot of them start having regrets...


6 posted on 02/08/2012 3:56:17 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: RobinMasters

This woman gave a keynote speech at an event that I attended in Washington just after the passage of Obamacare.

Based upon the content of her speech and the manner in which she presented it, I can tell you without any fear of contradiction that she knew *exactly* what she was voting for and did so freely.

She is lying.


7 posted on 02/08/2012 3:56:42 AM PST by turfmann
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To: Flintlock

The bill grants the Secretary of HHS broad rule making authority and Sebelius predictably abused it. What did she expect?


8 posted on 02/08/2012 3:56:52 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: RobinMasters
I'm going to call Judas Stupak today and ask him how he spent his 30 pieces of silver.
9 posted on 02/08/2012 3:57:53 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: RobinMasters

Goodness, didn’t she read the bill?


10 posted on 02/08/2012 3:58:17 AM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: RobinMasters

She’s a liar.


11 posted on 02/08/2012 3:59:06 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: RobinMasters

Woman’s an idiot! It’;s communist socialized medicine you twit! And the ONLY reason you wouldn’t have stopped it was RU-486????????? You’re a lib el stupido you skank!


12 posted on 02/08/2012 4:00:34 AM PST by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Timber Rattler
She’s a liar.

Of course she is...she is a politician.

13 posted on 02/08/2012 4:01:08 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: RobinMasters
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14 posted on 02/08/2012 4:01:08 AM PST by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: tobyhill

Funny, that’s who I thought of as well. These people are traitors to our country.


15 posted on 02/08/2012 4:02:00 AM PST by marygam ((Hurry November 2012, we might not make it))
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To: RobinMasters

“You Lie!!”


16 posted on 02/08/2012 4:03:47 AM PST by meyer (We will not sit down and shut up.)
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To: Flintlock

The real frightening thing about Obamacare, is that it was not in the bill, the head of HHS made the decision herself after the bill passed.


17 posted on 02/08/2012 4:07:18 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: RobinMasters
... in a press release sent out by Democrats for Life ...

Ain't no such critter.

If you oppose abortion, there is no place for you in the Democrat Party. They might find it convenient to pretend from time to time, but at the end of the day, they will always return to form.

18 posted on 02/08/2012 4:07:18 AM PST by Haiku Guy (The problem with Internet quotes is you never know if they are real -- Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Timber Rattler
I trust that the President will honor the commitment he made to those of us who supported final passage.”

.....between her and Bart Stupid they sold out for nothing but the word of a communist, who would say anything to get this past.

If she and the other dems who sold out had any honor they would do anything and everything they can to defeat Zero in the upcoming election.

19 posted on 02/08/2012 4:07:18 AM PST by Recon Dad (Gas & Petroleum Junkie)
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To: RobinMasters
I may have edited her quote slightly for clarity

Barely, at all. In fact, it's a nearly perfect translation.

20 posted on 02/08/2012 4:09:41 AM PST by stevem
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