Darcy Burner says progressives should not vote for the bill if Stupak amendment passes.
By John Amato Saturday Nov 07, 2009 2:00pm
Darcy Burner, the leader of the Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation says that if the Stupak amendment passes, progressives should vote down the health care bill in the House.
Burner: It means that women who find they have cancer while they are pregnant won't get the choice of how to proceed, but those choices will instead be made by politicians in Washington, DC whose lives aren't the ones who are being destroyed. The idea that we would throw women under the bus in the process of doing health care reform is completely unacceptable.
Now the word I'm hearing is that the Senate is more progressive than the House on this issue and the belief is that it will come back from the conference committee without the Stupak amendment included.
If the bill that comes back from conference does have the Stupak amendment, then organizing will be huge.
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More like this please.
Good idea or not. I wish the colored canines into the cornfield.
I wish the GOPhers worse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi21BDWmKyQ
Glad to hear the progressive reps aren't going to take this BS.
On a side note, a good ad for any Dem candidate in 2010 would be to show Republicans voting against rape litigation and against women's health.
of repubs and bluedogs who vote for the Stupak amendment! Outrageous end run on Roe v. Wade..Oh, but the old coots in Congress still get their VIAGRA!!!
Call them 1.800.828.0498 or 1.877.264.4226
They better vote to keep the BS Stupak crud out of the bill.
There is no reason for it. There is every reason in the world for Stupak to just stuff it.
Again I say, haven't the anti-abortion people have ever considered the possibility that women with guaranteed healthcare for their children, as well as for themselves, would be less likely to abort.
Seems like common sense to me.
But anti-choice as a position doesn't consider "common sense" as anything but their pont of view.
one abortion paid for by BIG FED is worth a thousand unaccounted-for abortions paid for by private citizens.
Whassa darcey burner?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG4foVwXefo
something you burn your darcy with.
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The stoopidest!
That such an amendment is even being considered leaves me speechless.
Good luck and thank you for speaking out, Darcy Burner!
I think 82% of Americans will need to be hospitalized just from the stress of this circus.
It's infuriating to watch this happening to Americans. What a fiasco!
Thank goodness for people like Darcy. This will be shameful to all of us in the progressive community if an amendment like this passes. If a health care bill with this amendment passes, it will truly mean that progressives' strength is close to zero in politics.
no way in hell, should dems vote down this bill. enough already. get it done and then strip the shit from it.
I am an unabashedly Leftist Here and DO NOT LIKE THE DEMOCRATS appeasement, equivocation and sellout of leftist/progressive policies to the right wing Repukes.
From Gay Rights to Wage Earning/Jobs to Women’s Reproductive Health Issues, the Democrats now look to maintain their grip on power while compromising the core values of its leftist/progressive base. The Democratic Party takes it leftist/progressive base for granted and when push comes to shove, goes with the Democratic Leadership Council agenda which is GOP-Lite, corporate centered, and favors a militarized foreign policy agenda built on “bipartisanship.”
Barack Obama will soon be sending over 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, yet, the leftist/progressive base still fail to see the president as a center-right corporate-militarist leader of which he has proven to be. Obama will not be looking into signing any real international agreements to curb emissions. Obama is turning into a failure on environmental issues as well.
Obama and the Democratic Party today are closer to the Catholic Church and Christian Fundamentalists on issues of:
1. Women’s right to choose –Yes a WOMAN’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHAT SHE DOES WITH HER OWN BODY!!!!!!
2. Gay Rights – DADT, Gay Marriage – which Obama and the Democratic National Committee did nothing about in Maine last week, and supports the Defense of Marriage Act.
3. Democrats continue the big Spending on Defense Budgets and endless war funding.
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