...In an op/ed piece by Kathleen Parker (click title to entry - thank you) her barely cloaked rage mirrored the seething anger that is rushing across the internet from pro-life organizations. Parker compared Stupak to Judas while another pro-life organization informed all pro-life voters by email of “the stunning betrayal by the Democratic lawmakers who campaigned for election as pro-life but then turned their backs on unborn children…”
Perhaps we need to pause a moment, turn down the Glenn Beck/Rachel Maddow volume and consider what H.R.3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act did accomplish for the pro-life community. Rather than aiding and abetting abortion this important piece of legislation:Guarantees coverage for pregnancy. Pregnancy is no longer a pre-existing condition.
C-sections, birth defects, and domestic violence can no longer be considered pre-existing conditions and used to deny insurance coverage;...
After all they only need to 'reload.' Somehow, Sarah Palin continuing to make that assertion is suppose to make it alright.
No.
MENOMINEE -- (click here) Ivon Butman is a long time resident of Menominee. Like many residents, she not only supports Congressman Stupak, but also the health care reform bill.
"Congressman Stupak is very much to be admired,” said Butman. “He stands by his principles and he was very instrumental in getting this whole thing passed, and locally here he is very much admired and he's done a good job."
Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, voted for the health care reform bill, but only after being assured that an executive order would prevent federal money from funding abortions. He's long been liked and respected in his hometown of Menominee, and residents we talked to Friday are disturbed by the threats of violence Stupak and his family have received.
Vans Foods owner, Tom Van Gaal, said those tactics are way out of line....
The fact of the matter is, that the REPUBLICAN PARTY and THE TEA PARTY are still not accepting responsibility for the demeanor that stirs their constituency to violence. They are avoidant in all their assertions regardless of the issue.
It might get so bad, that people affiliated with Rep. Stupak could feel threatened to withdraw from the circumstances. I didn't know the USA streets had turned into those that exist in Baghdad, whereby war is a barrier to voting.
Since when, in the USA do people have to cower in fear of their lives, only to be a martyr to their own patriotism. A person has to have 'guts' to run for office in the USA? I don't think so.
Washington, DC, United States (AHN) - (click here) A day after the arrest of a Washington state man (click here) for making death threats to a Democratic senator over her healthcare vote, federal prosecutors have filed charges against a California man for threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The criminal complaint against Gregory Lee Giusti, 48, will be unsealed when he appears in court Thursday. He was arrested around noon Wednesday in San Francisco.
The FBI has not issued a statement, but a spokesman for Pelosi said in a statement the arrest was made after an investigation of threatening phone calls to the speaker.
"The Speaker thanks the FBI, the Capitol Hill Police, House Sergeant at Arms, and other law enforcement officials for their professionalism in this matter. She will have no further comment at this time," Brendan Daly said....
