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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