I call pure BS. Judas Stupak doesn’t care if it gets signed. He’s blowing smoke. After all, he got his thirty pieces of silver, didn’t he?
not a mention of the hundreds of thousands of dollars he got at the last hour for pet airport projects.
He intended to vote all along - just wanted is piece of the pie first.
Lay her down, commence to drill
A primo murder, the legal kill
I am a child about to die
My mother does not hear my cry, no
(Chorus)
Killers of the unborn, killers
Killers of the unborn, stop the killing
Injection starts to work its way
I don’t feel love, I just feel pain
I’m getting weaker, my poison blood
And death surrounds me like a flood
(Chorus)
The operation is over
I’m now in pieces in a garbage bag
Guilt will now take over
‘Cause where is the relief you thought you had
The shame and tears she bears
The scar of guilt she is going to wear
But he can forgive her
If she gives her life to the Savior
No, no, they’re gonna kill me
I don’t want to die, just let me be
No, no, I feel the pain
I feel, I feel the pain, no.
- Killers of the Unborn, Barren Cross
Noticed that Presidential EO went unsigned today there, idiotStupak......
And really, why would Obama stick to any such executive order and anger what’s left of his base for a gullible member of congress who is going to be voted out of office in less than eight months?
Stupak left out the part about the airport funds his district received 2 days before he sold out his vote.
In order to persuade reluctant Democrats to endorse his favored health-care reform bill, President Obama promised to issue an executive order stipulating that the legislation does not allow for funding of abortion. Readers who are not familiar with the American form of government might wonder how much authority such a presidential order would have.
Readers who are familiar with the American form of government know that such an executive order would have no binding force whatsoever.
Under the terms of the US Constitution-- a document with which most legislators are evidently unfamiliar-- Congress has the power to legislate. The President does not. If the legislation passed by Congress allows for funding of abortion, and the President declines to provide that funding, then he is violating the terms of the legislation. Sooner or later someone will challenge the presidential order in court, and the court will rule that the intent of Congress takes preference.
So what was the intent of Congress in passing this legislation? Here's a hint: In order to convince a few recalcitrant Democrats that the bill didn't provide for abortion funding, President Obama was obliged to promise this executive order. Clearly that promise was not contained in the legislation itself.
If the legislation itself blocked abortion funding, the presidential promise would have been meaningless and unnecessary. As things stand, the promise was still meaningless-- but apparently necessary, to give venal legislators an excuse for deserting their own promises.
Stupak is not just a traitor to his cause, he’s also an abject fool!
This from the WSJ:
(excerpt)
By T.W. Farnam
A novice Republican challenging Rep. Bart Stupak (D., Mich.) has been gaining support and raising money in the wake of the House vote on health-care legislation Sunday.
“It’s been amazing,” said Dan Benishek, a doctor. “The phone hasn’t stopped ringing.”
Benishek, who has never run for office and has an all-volunteer campaign, says he has raised $50,000 since the vote. He’s also gotten about 6,000 emails, 18,000 friends on the Facebook and more than 3,000 followers on Twitter even though his account looks brand new. Some conservative Web sites have taken up his cause, including the Hot Air blog founded by Michelle Malkin.
“The betrayal of Mr. Stupak was dramatic,” Benishek says. “He certainly betrayed the citizens of his district because he’s from a conservative pro-life area. That was pretty much the only issue tying him to his district. Mr. Stupak tends to vote pretty liberal on most things.”
A spokeswoman for Stupak said the congressman had no comment on the matter.
(read the rest at: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/03/23/stupak-challenger-gains-support/ )
Does Stupak know that obummer considers abortion a way for his daughters to correct a ‘mistake’ or that when obummer was in the Illinois senate he opposed 3 different bills that would have protected babies that had somehow survived late term abortions?
Of course all he did was speak against the bills and when it came time to vote, he cravenly voted “present” - hence his nickname “Pres_ent of the United States”. Couldn’t take a chance of going on record as being FOR killing living babies.
It doesn’t matter if he signs it or not. It’s worthless because an eo does not trump a law. If taxpayer funded abortion is in law an eo isn’t going to negate it.
I think the first thing we must do is have a Republican in both the House and Senate introduce bills that require Congressmen, Senators, families and staff to be required to be enrolled in this public health plan. The fact that the people who passed this abomination are exempt from it says it all.
Stup-head must pay the price for this.
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You’ve been had Stupidpak. Besides, this bill has a lot of bad stuff in it besides abortion.
Unless, of course, Stupak really does believe we live in a tyranny, has confirmed that the once Republic of the United States of America truly no longer exists. Then indeed, he has to *trust* 0bama.