about what this health care is doing to a political party...

"Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,”,,,,"

Now, in the debate’s final hours, Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). “I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted, and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters, like unions.”

Stupak says he also doesn’t trust the “Slaughter solution,” a legislative maneuver being bandied about on Capitol Hill as a way to pass the Senate bill in the House without actually voting on it. “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me,” he says. “I don’t have a warm-and-fuzzy feeling about what I’m hearing.”

Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing. “I really believe that the Democratic leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance,” he says. “Their position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered.” The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, he adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

And he ends the interview as follows...

"And the politics of the issue are pretty rough. “This has really reached an unhealthy stage,” Stupak says. “People are threatening ethics complaints on me. On the left, they’re really stepping it up. Every day, from Rachel Maddow to the Daily Kos, it keeps coming. Does it bother me? Sure. Does it change my position? No.”"

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While folks have let the Republican party to die a few short months ago, we seem to be witnessing the Democratic party committing suicide. Imagine "threatening ethics complaints" to get votes. What has Washington become.

And I might add....our President, the one who dismisses politics is in the middle of it all. who will bless whatever chicanary is required to pass his bill despite the feelings of the majority of the american people. But, of course as Nancy Pelosi says...."we wont know what is in it until we pass it".

By the way, the "Slaughter solution" referenced in the article and the means by which our congress will pass a health bill was proposed by a Pelosi friend, Louise Slaughter a democrat from New York. They will get the health care through the house without actually voting on the bill that came from the senate. As I understand it they will vote ONLY on ammendments and then "DEEM" the senate bill passed. I suppose our constitutional expert, our President does not care HOW !

As long as either party is even thinking this way, we are doomed. Ignore the people and find tricks to get done whatever you want.