Conservadads
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If the following is true, it is more than disturbing.
Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now.
Stupak notes that his negotiations with House Democratic leaders in recent days have been revealing. “I really believe that the Democratic leadership is simply unwilling to change its stance,” he says. “Their position says that women, especially those without means available, should have their abortions covered.” The arguments they have made to him in recent deliberations, he adds, “are a pretty sad commentary on the state of the Democratic party.”
What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”
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Please somebody tell me not all Democrats feel this way. Tell me that the Democratic Party leaders are seriously out of touch with reality and what most members of their party think.
I know folks on the left, like Margaret Sanger, once championed eugenics. But I seriously thought that kind of thinking was long dead.
One of the things I love about American culture is the value we place on life. I live in the shadow of the Cascade range on the west coast. Every year, somebody attempting to summit one of the large and beautiful peaks runs into trouble and has the be rescued. As a nation we spare no expense, even risking the lives of others, in the hopes that we can safely bring the stranded climber home safe and sound. I hope the day never arrives that we look up the mountain and say, "Well that rescue is just going to cost us to much money. Sorry brother, but you should have never been up there in the first place." If that day comes, somebody please come read me a happy story and tell me it's going to be alright, because I will be huddled in the corner crying over the day America died.
P.S. Speaking of out of touch party leaders, if I lived in California I would absolutely vote for Mickey Kaus in his pursuit to unseat Barbra Boxer. Yes I know Mickey is a Democrat, but if more Democrats were like Mickey the Republican Party would be in serious trouble.
This is what happens when politicians either have too much time on their hands or think they are your mom.
About 234 years ago Thomas Jeffereson penned the words "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed". I wonder how the current crop of politicians in Washigton square one of the most basic tenets of American political philosphy with the latest 
