Anti-Abortion health care: brought to you by Olympia Snowe

[fiorello]

It seems to me that the anti-abortion part of the health care bill is the fault of one person. Not Ben Nelson. Not Harry Reid. It's the fault of Olympia Snowe.

Snowe pretends to be pro-choice. She pretends to be one of the few remaining Republicans who still have a tiny shred of humanity - a throwback to the days of Fiorello LaGuardia, George Romney and Prescott Bush. She even said that she favored many aspects of the health care bill. President Obama spent an hour with her last Friday.

But when the deciding vote was up to her, she sold out.

She did not even have to vote in favor. All she had to do was not support the filibuster.

But she refused.

So Obama and company were forced to make a deal with an anti-abortion Democrat.

Ben Nelson? He's honest. He's anti-abortion and never pretended to be anything else. I'm personally happy that the Democrats are (a) overwhelmingly pro-choice, but (b) not so ideologically rigid as to exclude anyone who disagrees on this one issue.

But Olympia Snowe claims to be pro-choice. She has no excuse. She's pro-choice only in words. When asked to choose between the rights of women and the rights of Republican far-right party bosses, she voted with the party bosses. Once a Republican, always a Republican.

Anyone from Maine who supported their "moderate" Republican should be choking and realizing that it may just as well have been a vote for George Junior Bush.

Fair? Unfair?

It's true that I think anti-abortion measures should be blamed uniformly on the people who supported them. That means - 90% on Republicans, 10% on Democrats.

[katandmoon]

1. "Overwhelming pro-choice"? And yet ONE DINO can send that all to hell.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. I blame this particular measure solely on the Dems

No Republican voted for the bill anyway so there was no need to compromise with them. A handful of forced birther Dems pushed the issue and the rest of the Dems caved.