It would appear that Shrieker of the House Pelosi, or "She Who Must Not Blink", is confident she can twist enough arms to get enough votes for her monstrous health care bill this Saturday. Will "Big Brother" Barry send Rahm to the Capitol building deliver a few threats over the next two days? How a bout a dead fish wrapped in one of his tutus?
H.R. 3962 may pass the House after a Saturday evening vote, and one must wonder if the trial lawyers get their kiss (H/T Teri O'Brien)that same evening or do they wait until after Obama is re-elected (Heaven forbid) and has begun a second term? I suppose those of us who wanted the high costs due to medical malpractice lawsuits addressed (in other words, reasonable people) can view this as a means of addressing the issue. Of course this means of address provides states with an incentive to ensure that they do not cap attorney fees or awards.
The House vote is expected at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Rules Committee would have to meet 24 hours before the debate to prepare the bill for floor action, but Slaughter declined to say exactly when Rules would meet.
By allowing the Ellsworth language, House Democratic leaders hope to address the reluctance of anti-abortion Democrats to vote for the health bill.
Some of those lawmakers say they remain dissatisfied with the language, however.
Bart Stupak , D-Mich., may still oppose the Ellsworth language, potentially keeping the bill from passing. Stupak wants to bar any federally subsidized insurance plan from covering abortions, including any public plan set up to compete with private insurers.
Rep. Stupak might risk being screamed at as a "single-issue zealot" if he were an Illinois Republican whose stomach turned at the idea of a Senator Mark Kirk. Fortunately for him, he is not. Of course his respect for innocent life (unlike Mark Kirk) and insistence that money not be seized from the taxpayer to pay for the taking of an innocent child's life is inconvenient for the "ardent Catholic" Pelosi and irritating to the reprehensible abortion advocate Nancy Keenan. The Washington Obamost reports, "Some Democrats' concern over abortion may imperil health bill":
"I will continue whipping my colleagues to oppose bringing the bill to the floor for a vote until a clean vote against public funding for abortion is allowed," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) said Monday in a statement. He said last week that 40 Democrats could vote with him to oppose the legislation -- enough to derail the bill.
Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, cast Stupak as "attempting to ban abortion coverage in the private insurance market."
The abortion dispute centers both on federal subsidies that would be provided for people who cannot afford health-care coverage themselves and the much-debated government insurance alternative, which is included in the House version of the bill but is still being debated in the Senate. Under a 1976 law, federal funds are generally barred from being used for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest or to ensure the life of the mother.
NARAL Nancy is concerned taxpayers won't be killing babies so she needs to lobby for the sake of "women's health". Of course if she were actually concerned about "women's health", she would be lobbying against the government takeover of healthcare (or the polling approved "health insurance reform") in this nation of 300 million people! Instead she shows no mercy or remorse in her assault on innocent little boys and psst, Nancy, girls:
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signed by 183 lawmakers who Stupak helped organize, a group of mainly Republicans wrote: "The U.S. government should not be in the business of promoting abortion as health care. Real health care is about saving and nurturing life, not about taking life."
Keenan said a provision such as Stupak's would cut abortion coverage from the health plans of women if their employers decided to enroll in the health-care exchange. But after spending many of the past several days on Capitol Hill working on the bill, she said she wasn't sure if there are enough House votes to pass it with the current abortion language in it.
It might be refreshing if the Statists would speak honestly regarding their motivation (some might actually be well intentioned in supporting this bill, but those are the fools) of power and control. Constitution be damned! This is the age of Obama, after all. Take the labor of the taxpayer and redistribute its fruit to the zero-liability voter (H/T Andrew Wilkow).
I do hope those who are able rise to the occasion and join the wonderful Congresswoman Michele Bachmann along with Mark Levin and others on the steps of the Capitol Thursday (11/5/09) at noon Eastern to show that we will not take this intrusion lightly. The mistakes of 2008 have already proven costly in both dollars and liberty! I only hope we can apply a tourniquet to the wound Barack Obama and his leftist majorities in Congress are deepening.
