During a forum with the Chicago Tribune, the former White House chief of staff admits that Bart Stupak — before he and his fellow “pro-life Democrats” caved — had the power to stop the health-care legislation in March. And says that:
I came up with an idea for an executive order to allow the Stupak Amendment not to exist by law but by executive order, and it was good enough that Nancy Pelosi, Jan Schakowsky – here in Chicago, Rosa DeLauro, Anna Eshoo – a number of women who are held – Nita Lowey – who are held up as honors by people like NARAL and Planned Parenthood, who supported that bill and supported the way to make progress.
The Stupak Amendment is not law — exactly.
Side note - everyone calls it "Obamacare" but did the president actually have anything to do with its creation? Even this EO wasn't his idea. Has an emptier man ever been president?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCome on! We know that Obama executive orders have the absolute force of law - like the executive order that the President signed two years ago to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay "no later than 1 year from the date of this order." (Don't get me wrong - I'm glad Gitmo isn't closed, but it just shows how much executive orders mean to this administration - I don't believe that Stupak and his fellow "pro-life" Dems ever believed in this whole scam.)
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is always heartbreaking to revisit Bart Stupak's failure to defend the unborn at that most critical juncture of his career. Certainly, the man has paid a high political price and retired as a total failure in that regard.
That his own party perpetrated the fraud they did upon him just has to be salt in the wound ...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseStupak et al. wanted to cave from the very beginning. Rahmbo gave them an excuse to.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseStupak's picture should be in the dictionary next to "coward", Nelson's next to "venal", and both in the list of former politicians.
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