California Conservative

After watching this video, I’ve lost what little respect I had left for Bart Stupak:

Jim @ Gateway Pundit has it right. The guy is unreal:

Pro-abortion Dem Rep Bart Stupak:

“Thank you. The motion to recommit purports to be a right to life motion in the spirit of the Stupak Amendment. But as the author of the Stupak Amendment, this motion is nothing more than an opportunity to continue to deny 32 million Americans health care. The motion…The motion is really a last ditch effort of 98 years of denying Americans health care. It is the democrats who have stood up for the principle of no funding for abortion. It is the democrats through the president’s executive order that ensures the sanctity of life is protected.”

This got me downright irate. For Judas Stupak to say that Democrats have pro-life principles is downright insulting. President Obama couldn’t even muster up enough pro-life principles to vote for the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act:

We were in Springfield to lobby for passage of the state Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation that would require hospitals to care for infants who survive an abortion. Obama spoke against the legislation in 2001 and 2002 and single-handedly defeated it in committee in 2003.

My friend stood in Obama’s path and said, “Senator, we are going to pass Born Alive here in Illinois this year.”

Obama smiled smoothly and agreed, “I think you will,” adding, “I would have voted for the Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Illinois had it been worded the same as the federal bill. I think that’s the position the Democrats should take.”

There’s just one thing he forgot to mention: Obama had stopped his committee from adding the federal wording.

Judas Stupak knows this. That information didn’t keep him from making that insulting speech on the House floor. Let’s remember that then-Gov. Clinton and the DNC kept truly pro-life Democrat Robert Casey from speaking at the 1992 convention.

That’s before talking about President Clinton vetoing the Republicans’ legislation that would’ve banned partial birth abortions. Let’s remember that staunch pro-choice Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said that partial birth abortions “comes as close to infanticide as anything I have seen in our judiciary.”

Despite that information, last night, Judas Stupak had the audacity to say that Democrats “have stood up for the principle of no funding for abortion.” That’s interesting since Rep. Henry Waxman told him Democrats want to publicly fund abortions:

“I gave him the language. He came back a little while later and said, ‘But we want to pay for abortions.’ I said, ‘Mr. Chairman, that’s…we disagree. We don’t do it now, we’re not going to start.’

“‘But we think we should,’” Stupak said Waxman told him.

“I said, ‘Well, I’m sorry but the House has spoken. We had that debate. We won 240-190. You forced the vote, a vote we won fair and square and we’re not gonna, this is what it is. If you want to move health care keep current law,’” Stupak continued.

It’s insulting that Judas Stupak would make tell us last night that Democrats “have stood up for the principle of no funding for abortion” when less than 2 weeks ago, he was accusing one of the Democrats’ staunchest pro-abortion advocates of wanting to change policy to publicly fund abortions. Does Judas Stupak think we won’t remember these things?

It’s time that voters in Judas Stupak’s district to retire him. We can’t afford someone who changes his beliefs from one week to the next. That isn’t the change we’ve been looking for.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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