Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:04:55 AM
Lest you think I’m reading too much into that, note that ABC is reading it the same way.
Ed noted earlier that a war is brewing between pro-life Blue Dogs and
pro-choice liberals over the final bill, but does anyone seriously
believe the pro-lifers will hold their ground and torpedo it if the
abortion language is stripped out? For all the press he got in
anti-abortion circles, Stupak himself was prepared to vote for this crap sandwich without
the ban on funding abortion; all he wanted was a floor vote, which
means all it cost Pelosi to pass the bill was some ephemeral unpleasantness
in the caucus room. The language will be duly dumped in conference
committee and Stupak et al. will crumble under the weight of media
heavy-breathing about how Democrats are now closer than they’ve ever
been to passing the glorious utopian Great Society boondoggle of their
dreams. They’ll fold like a two-dollar chair.