If Bart Stupak was Pinocchio, his nose would just keep growing and growing.
Right after midnight on Friday November 6th, Bart Stupak began his testimony to the House Rules Committee. The (be)witching hour. Less than 24 hours later the vote began on his amendment. Not much time to understand his amendment.
It was a bait and switch. There had been an earlier amendment whose language had circulated. It prohibited the use of federal dollars, i.e. federal subsidies, in only the public option, not the newly created exchanges. The new amendment did much more. It extended the prohibition to the exchanges. By doing that, it will in short order, 2-3 years after the exhanges begin operating, eliminate almost ALL insurance coverage for abortion.
Rep. Bart Stupak lied in his testimony. When he lied in his testimony before the Rules Committee. Therefore he lied to those 64 Democratic members who voted for the Stupak-Pitts-Kaptur-Dahlkemper amendment. Some of them are having buyer's remorse. It should be further inflamed by this. They were sold a dishonest bill of goods by Rep Stupak. How did he do that? Let us count the ways.
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