First-Class Sell-Out

Supposedly he’s getting an executive order banning the use of taxpayer funds for abortion in return. It’s bullshit political cover with no real meaning. How can you tell? The staunch pro-abortion crowd who demanded taxpayer funds aren’t hooting and hollering. They know the executive order will mean nothing, so they’re fine with it.

Bottom line: Eight or nine “no” votes will flip and government-run health care will become law. And it will become law with all of its Medicare-cutting, abortion-funding, bureaucracy-expanding, tax-raising, deficit-increasing measures in tact.

The fight has ended with Bart Stupak (D-MI) selling his soul to Nancy Pelosi. He and his colleagues have abandoned their professed convictions in order to win political favor with San Francisco liberals. He has effectively put his rubber stamp on the very federal abortion funding he claimed to oppose.

Which brings me back to my original creed: Never trust a Democrat who tells you he won’t vote like a Democrat. He says he’ll be fiscally responsible? Walk the other way. He says he’ll oppose an expansion of government? Walk the other way. He says he’ll oppose federal funding for abortion. Walk the other way. Because he’s lying. Plain and simple.

The only Democrats who end up voting against this monstrosity will be those who were incapable of finding enough suitable political cover to openly support the big-government, pro-abortion agenda they want to support. Give them a few more bribes and they’d be on board, too.

Update: Even Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post realizes the bullshit being pulled here:

Isn’t Stupak papering over dispute? Executive order could end when Obama leaves office

It could end the second Obama decides to end it. Which could be right after the legislation becomes law.

Update X2: Kathryn Jean Lopez gets it right:

“We have an agreement … to protect the sanctity of life … ”

Well, no, it doesn’t.

This press conference is being held in a fog of delusion. The executive order is not binding.

I think we’re witnessing Bart Stupak write the obit for the concept of the “pro-life Democrat.”

Also, the Democratic majority.

Update X3: Just how pointless is the EO? This pointless.

This particuar EO is also a nullity — presidents cannot enact laws, the Supreme Court has said they cannot impound funds that Congress allocates, and (as a friend points out) the line-item veto has been held unconstitutional, so they can’t use executive orders to strike provisions in a bill.

Don’t think Stupak and his buddies are ignorant of that fact, either. Like I said, they were just looking for enough faux cover to support the government-run health care legislation with its abortion funding.