Making some noise about Stupak-Pitts

By ladkiddo ( November 17, 2009 at 10:41 am) · Filed under Connections

The wonderfully progressive Credo Action Network has provided an opportunity to let the Democratic congressmen who voted in favor of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment know just how displeased we are with their vote. A petition is being forwarded to them, signed by us, if we so choose, and for every signature received, each congressman will receive a wire hanger.

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3 Responses to “Making some noise about Stupak-Pitts”

  1. classicalliberal says:
    November 17, 2009 at 5:12 pm

    classicalliberal …. <—– (comment sensored because I am not aloud a vote or opinion on things pertaining to abortion wrong gender ;) )

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  2. ladkiddo says:
    November 17, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Thank you :D

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  3. Mike In WNY says:
    November 18, 2009 at 8:19 am

    Passing Stupak really had nothing to do with abortion. It was a purely political decision by Democrats who view the passage of any health care bill as a political win, even a bad bill.

    Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton speaking to the Senate Democrats’ lunch on Nov. 10 cited his party’s big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law.

    But political calculations are always on politicians’ minds. The two presidents were urging passage of legislation that has become increasingly unpopular as its provisions become more widely known. They were speaking at a time when Gallup tells us that only 47 percent of Americans think providing health insurance is a government responsibility, down from 69 percent just two years ago.

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