Driehaus undecided on healthcare

[recoveringdittohed]

Two articles on today's Cincinnati Enquirer website indicating that Congressman Driehaus is undecided on healthcare reform. According to a truncated cut and past style quote in one of the articles the Congressman says "While I certainly support this intitiative...I will not bend on the principle of federal funding on abortion," Driehaus said in an interview with the Enquirer. "They are going to have to do it without me and without the other pro-life Democrats."

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100315/NEWS0108/303150040/1055/NEWS/Biden+praises+Driehaus

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100314/NEWS0108/3150325/Biden+visiting+but+Driehaus+unswayed


I would like to know what is left out in the dot dot dot area of the quote. If the Congressman seriously is going to wreck healthcare reform in a quixotic quest to overturn Roe v Wade legislatively I can no long no enthusiastically support him for reelection. I'll be at polls voting in November anyway and would most certainly hold my nose and vote for him over any Republican.

This is the sort thing that makes Democratics ethically far superior to the Republicans as Republicans are not permitted by their party leadership to vote their conscience.

[ladym55]

1. Congressman Driehaus is all wet

He apparently hasn't read the bill. There is NO funding for abortion in the healthcare reform bill. It explicitly says NO federal funding for abortion.

Here's a link from Rachel Maddow with more information:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/09/2222673.aspx

And I'll leave out the great hypocrisy of "pro-life" Dems ... NO abortions ... but then we won't do anything about making sure that people have access to health care once they are born. We lose more than 40,000 people per year because they do not have access to health care.

[Sara Bradi]

2. amen to that n/t

[tcaudilllg]

3. If he doesn't vote for it, he'll be won't be coming back in January, I don't think!