The word on the street is the Stupak is buying the meaningless executive order. Without the Stupak bloc, today’s vote is a forgone conclusion.
The lesson here is never to rely on a Democrat to do the right thing.
UPDATE: Stupak’s office is denying this. We’ll see.
UPDATE: There is indeed a deal. So much for the “strong” denials out of Stupak’s office.
It looks as though the pro-life Democrats have gone the way of the national-security Democrats.
UPDATE: Well put:
On Stupak, he was like watching an overmatched pitcher in a baseball game hold off a much more formidable opponent only to surrender the game-winning home run in the ninth inning. He simply ran out of gas and backbone. So very sad to see this late in the game. He obviously couldn’t stand up to the pressure. Too bad we had to watch all nine innings thinking he (and other pro-life Democrats) would pull out a victory.
Indeed. Part of what’s so maddening about this is I really came to believe that Stupak was committed to the cause. It turns out I was wrong about which cause.
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