Here’s the obvious trap with this one - the “side bar” bill will contain the anti-abortion language plus some horrendously bad provisions no republican could possible swallow. When the bill goes down the gang shrugs their shoulders and say well, we tried but the republicans wouldn’t let us.
Stupak must mean “Traitor” in slavic.
I guess Obama made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Maybe the FBI got some 8 x 10 glossies of Stupak doing something he shouldn’t or maybe George Soros or the Saudis made a direct deposit into a Swiss Bank Account for Stupak.
OR, maybe Obama offered Stupak a new Czarship.
There will be no sidebar bill Stupak. There will be the Senate Bill, period, end of statement.Your demagoguery has gotten you nowhere and you are a disgrace to the pro life community which you supposedly support. You are a Democrat first and foremost and life is what happens while you are playing politician.
Any way to do bundling that does not lend itself to Lucy-pulls-away-the-football at the last moment? Leaving the House with a vote for the Senate bill and no sidebar? I don’t see Bummer as above that kind of maneuver, or for that matter Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Selling out, as predicted.
Perhaps the Massa treatment closed the deal.
Nancy did say she had the votes. Its just that some members didn’t know they were voting for it yet.
You can’t spell Stupak without S-T-U-P
Stupak is a phony and a fraud. This waffling only makes him look cheap and stupid. Perhaps the side-bar he’s talking about is the place where he get’s his scotch.
Stupe-ak had a chance to defund Planned Parenthood and he voted against defunding! I just hope the other pro-life Dims have the courage of their convictions and vote no on this monstrosity that will include payment for abortion.
Not to be Pollyanna but if you read the entire article, this sounds very involved and difficult. The Senate rejected the Stupak amendment the first time around and Durbin said last week that there are not the votes in the Senate for it. I’m not so sure the Senate will agree to this, and they may have to, up front, to give Stupak cover to vote for this ungodly thing.
No way in hell a separate anti-abortion bill would make it through the senate. There’s no way Stupak is this stupid, or maybe he thinks the public won’t realize that and he can set himself up as “trying”?
Bought and SOLD!
Did anyone ever think from day one that Stupak or the rest of these Democrat “moderates” and “pro-lifes” were not going to vote FOR the Pelosi healthcare bill?
Democrats have no principles - without exception. Any one of them with moral fiber was long ago forced out of their party - ask Zell Miller.
Pro-Lifers have a good right to be skeptical. Any "sidebar" bill will be only to provide Stupak cover, when he votes for 0bamascare. Later, when that "sidebar" is ignored he can feign outrage.
Cover his lying ass time for little Miss Stupak!
Just as I predicted — Stupak has been bought.
I don’t trust Massa for a second, but I believe he was made an example of — and others, like Stupak, have taken note — and changed their tunes.
The man is a FRAUD he supports funding for the major performer of abortion in the USA, Planned Parenthood.
This butthole supports funding of Planned Parenthood...the major performer of abortions in the USA.
“Code Red” - House Target List on Health Care
The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
Rep. Lincoln Davis 202-225-6831 Columbia office: 931-490-8699
Rep. Jim Cooper 202-225-4311 Nashville office: 615-736-5295
Rep. Bart Gordon 202-225-4231 Murfreesboro office: 615-896-1986
Rep. John S. Tanner 202-225-4714 Jackson office: 731-423-4848
Rep. Steve Cohen 202-225-3265 Memphis office: 901-544-4131
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Defeat Obamacare call list: Courtsey of TN Eagle Forum: List now contains the new MAYBES culled from FR posts.
PLEASE CALL! DC OFFICE LOCAL OFFICE State District
Harry Mitchell (202) 225-2190 (480) 946-2411 AZ 5th District
Gabrielle Giffords (202) 225-2542 (520) 881-3588 AZ 8th District
Ann Kirkpatrick (202) 225-2315 (928) 226-6914 AZ 1st District
Jerry McNerney (202) 225-1947 925-833-0643 CA 11th District
John Salazar 202-225-4761 970-245-7107 CO 3rd District
Jim Himes (202) 225-5541 (866) 453-0028 CT 4th District
Alan Grayson (202) 225-2176 (407) 841-1757 FL 8th District
Bill Foster (202) 225-2976 630-406-1114 IL 14th District
Baron Hill 202 225 5315 812 288 3999 IN 9th District
Mark Schauer (202) 225-6276 (517) 780-9075 MI 7th District
Gary Peters (202) 225-5802 (248) 273-4227 MI 9th District
Dina Titus (202) 225-3252 702-256-DINA (3462) NV 3rd District
Carol Shea-Porter (202) 225-5456 (603) 743-4813 NH 1st District
Tim Bishop (202) 225-3826 (631) 696-6500 NY 1st District
John Hall (202) 225-5441 (845) 225-3641 x49371 NY 19th District
Bill Owens (202) 225-4611 (315) 782-3150 NY 23rd District
Mike Arcuri (202)225-3665 (315)793-8146 NY 24th District
Dan Maffei (202) 225-3701 (315) 423-5657 NY 25th District
Earl Pomeroy (202) 225-2611 (701) 224-0355 ND At-Large District
Steven Driehaus (202) 225-2216 (513) 684-2723 OH 1st District
Mary Jo Kilroy (202) 225-2015 (614) 294-2196 OH 15th District
Zach Space (202) 225-6265 (330) 364-4300 OH 18th District
Kathy Dahlkemper (202) 225-5406 (814) 456-2038 PA 3rd District
Patrick Murphy (202) 225-4276 (215) 826-1963 PA 8th District
Christopher Carney (202) 225-3731 (570) 585-9988 PA 10th District
Paul Kanjorski (202) 225-6511 (570) 825-2200 PA 11th District
John Spratt (202) 225-5501 (803)327-1114 SC 5th District
Tom Perriello (202) 225-4711 (276) 656-2291 VA 5th District
Alan Mollohan (202) 225-4172 (304) 623-4422 WVA 1st District
Nick Rahall (202) 225-3452 (304) 252-5000 WVA 3rd District
Steve Kagen (202) 225-5665 (920) 437-1954 WI 8th District
Bart Gordon (202) 225-4231 TN (MAYBE)
Bart Stupak (202) 225 4735 MI (MAYBE)
Brian Baird (202) 225-3536, Vancouver, (360) 695-6292. Olympia, (360) 352-9768, (MAYBE)
senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
John Tanner (202) 225-4714, Union City, (731) 885-7070, Jackson Phone: (731) 423-4848, Millington (901) 873-5690 TN (MAYBE)
Jason Altmire 202-225-2565, Aliquippa, 724-378-0928, Natrona Heights, 724-226-1304 (MAYBE)
On the Bubble (Major developments from the “yes” and “no” columns in the House)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2467046/posts