Hey Bart Stupak: Planned Parenthood Sends Their Thanks

Hi, Bart. I thought you might want to see this.

I received an email from the Planned Parenthood mailing list this morning, and it contained this paragraph:

We were able to keep the Stupak abortion ban out of the final legislation, and President Obama did not include the Stupak language in his Executive Order. Unfortunately, the bill does include the Nelson amendment, which will impose new and severe restrictions on private health insurance coverage for abortion for millions of women. And no doubt we will have to beat back more attacks on women's health as the Senate considers the final health care reform package. We'll let you know when we'll need your help in the days and weeks ahead.

Yes, you heard right, Bart. Ben Nelson's Cornhusker Kickback did more for the pro-life cause than you did. At least he got his thirty pieces of silver.

And note that Planned Parenthood's President, Cecile Richards, highlights the fact that the legislation is unaltered first; that's no doubt because she knows that the Executive Order that you asked for doesn't alter the law as passed -- there's this little thing called "the separation of powers" that prevents the executive branch from overriding the legislative branch.

I would think that a long-time Congressman like you would know that. After all, you weren't subject to the decay of education that's happened since the unconsitutional Department of Education was born under our second-most-awful President, Jimmy Carter. (I know it's too early to see the effect of the Healthcare bill, but I think we're safe granting the top title to Obama already.)

Of course, I think this whole executive order thing is a fig leaf anyway. This video shows how insincere you were all along, and I only wish it were around earlier so the pretense could have been dropped:

So, you were never sincere about your pro-life stance, and you showed that either you're stupid (by believing that the EO is worth something) or conniving (because you're using it as an excuse). Before that, you were never one of us conservatives, but at least you looked like you had a spine. You appeared to have something rare in a politician: a spine. Now you're despised by both right and left, and a hollow man to the center. Is it any wonder that the world is noting the similarity between "Stupid" and "Stupak"?

Sincerely,
Jake Freivald

P.S. By the way, "Sincerely" means "I mean what I say."

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Misguided Spending

An article from the Chronicle of Higher Education laments a rule that "lacks teeth":

Under the rule, states must spend at least the same amount of money for colleges each year as they spent on average in each of the previous five years.

Forget whether or not it lacks teeth. (The issue there is that the feds haven't established a federal monitoring process. Not my point.) Look at why they created the mandate:

Advocates of the spending mandate, enacted in part to encourage states to provide consistent levels of aid to colleges to help them rein in costs, worry...

So if I am to understand this correctly, forcing the states to pump more money into education is supposed to decrease costs. Which is funny, because on my planet, people cut costs when there's less money to spend.

Maybe the mandate's advocates should retake Econ 101.

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Who's the dope now? Obama and Biden

We just spent 8 years listening to the mainstream media about the stupidity of George W. Bush. There is no doubt that W could really mangle a participle. But the real comparison is whether or not the team surrounding the President have their act together. And while W did an ok job early on, Barack is failing miserably.

. Before he even starts, several key Democrats have scandal problems
- Barney Frank on fannie something
- Chris Dodd on Countrywide
- Charlie Rangel can't pay his taxes
- Pelosi's husband on conflict of interest
- Harry Reid's land deal
- No lobbyists in the admin until there are
And then, we have nominees who are completely unsuited
- Geithner(Treasury) - taxes
- Daschle(HHS) - taxes
- Clinton(State) - Influence
- Panetta(CIAE) - Banking fees
- Steven Chu(Energy) - The sky is falling, run for your lives
- Joe Biden(VP) - taxes are patriotic except for Democrat nominees

And then there is Barack Obama who thinks we should ram the most pork laden non-stimulus bill spending more than the Department of Defense in wartime and no-one seems to be paying attention?

This is like the circus. With no disrespect to the real ones, Ringling or Big Apple. They are even amateurs at that. Is our new President paying attention?

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