I’ve always wondered what was more important to secularist liberals, abortion or socialism. Sure, the two seem to be linked but when it comes down to it, which one, I wondered, was the principal which liberals would cling to no matter what.
And this week gave me my answer. The Senate Democrats needed 60 votes to pass healthcare but Senators Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman stood in the way for different reasons, presenting the White House and Senate leadership with a choice. Lieberman swore he wouldn’t vote for a public option while Nelson said he couldn’t vote for public funding of abortion.
And this week, Harry Reid did what seemed unthinkable just a month ago. He told Lieberman that they would take out the public option out of the healthcare bill. It’s telling that the Democrats in the White House and the Senate surrendered the public option before they were willing to take abortion out.
Let’s remember, the whole point of this healthcare bill and the main focus of Barack Obama’s first year in the Presidency was the public option. And they just gave it away so that they wouldn’t have to take out federal funding of abortion.
So in short, while liberals say that they believe that everyone is entitled to healthcare even at taxpayer expense what they really mean is that everyone is entitled to an abortion at taxpayer expense. They have proven with their actions that abortion is the bedrock principal of the Democratic Party.
December 16, 2009 at 5:59 pm
How much did the pro-abortion lobby pay for these people's souls?
December 16, 2009 at 6:27 pm
I don't know, what's the inflation on 30 pieces of silver over 2000 years?
December 16, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Democrats may have stances on various issues (though rather than debate those issues they resort to personal attacks), but they worship at an altar. That altar is ABORTION.
December 16, 2009 at 7:23 pm
This proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that this bill was NEVER about providing universal healthcare to uninsured Americans, it was ONLY EVER about the expansion of abortion and with providing PP with a huge raise. Our (supposed) pro-life Senators and representatives need to stop referring to this as a Health Care bill and start calling it the Abortion Expansion bill, because that's about the only thing left in it at this point. So predictable!
December 16, 2009 at 8:50 pm
As I recall, then-candidate Obama promised Planned Parenthood that "the first thing [he'd] do as president" would be to expand abortion.
When FOCA failed, the healthcare bill became the next option.
–Nicholas Jagneaux
Maybe, I think, the healthcare bill was the first option; as FOCA was not as likely to pass.
December 16, 2009 at 9:37 pm
B+
December 17, 2009 at 3:06 am
Very interesting. The Ted Bundy kind of interesting.
December 17, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I have said for quite some time that our liberal leaders are not Socialists, but Communists. It's true. One goal of communism is to abolish the family. The only way to do this is to convince women that their children are burdens and hinderances to the women working and reaching their full potential. Feminism is a tool used by our nation of Communist sympathizers. We're half way there–
Read the Communists Manifesto–you might be surprised. Here's one exerpt. 10 "goals" of Communism. Count how many we have in the U.S. and think about what is happening now in our legislature!
"1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c."
December 19, 2009 at 12:13 am
Hitler is trying to steal our babies. Don't let him.