United Liberty

Saturday night, PelosiCare was on life support, on the verge of dying an undignified death and ending (for this Congress anyway) the discussion of nationalizing American health care.

Nancy Pelosi knew that she was in trouble.  She needed the votes of Blue Dog Democrats, who were wavering over both the cost and the fact that the government would not be specifically forbidden from funding abortion, so in a rope-a-dope move she allowed a vote on the Stupak amendment.

Health care rationing?  Doesn’t matter.

Three trillion dollars added to the deficit in the first decade of spending?  Irrelevant.

Government control over health care?  Who cares?

Funding for abortions?  OH JESUS DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!!!

You see the point.  Sixty-four Democrats, plus all but one Republican, voted for the Stupak amendment, which specifically forbids tax dollars from funding abortions.

With the issue of abortion settled, Blue Dogs felt comfortable voting for the budget-busting, rationing, statist PelosiCare bill.  Had Republicans just voted “present” on the Stupak amendment, it would have failed.  Without the Stupak amendment, PelosiCare would have failed.

Republicans handed Pelosi and the leftist Democrats a victory because they cared more about keeping their 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee than about stopping the nationalization of health care through PelosiCare.

Republicans, we will remember this.  We care more about liberty than about pushing a statist social agenda.  Nancy Pelosi played you guys like a fiddle.

Dopes, roped.