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RUSH: Here from the WeeklyStandard.com by John McCormack: ‘Stupak: There\u2019s No Deal, and I Won\u2019t Agree to a Promise to Fix the Bill in the Future.\u2019 Now, ‘Stupak said that White House officials <\/a>are ‘trying to get face time with members to convince them to vote for a bill that no one has seen in writing.” <\/p>\n

So they are working on something other than the Senate bill, \u2019cause they know that\u2019s a nonstarter in the House. So they\u2019re working on something out there but nobody\u2019s seen it. And Stupak\u2019s saying, ‘I\u2019m going to see it first, I\u2019m not going to accept your promises.\u2019 Now, Bart\u2019s still a Democrat. And Democrats are Democrats first at the end of the day. ”The point I was trying to make\u2019 by relaying the opera story, Stupak said, ‘is that the White House is pulling out all of the stops trying to get members to commit to voting for health care. I continue to say to the White House: Put forth your proposal in writing so that members can see it. No member is so weak on this issue that just because they got to go to the opera they\u2019re going to vote for health care.\u2019 Stupak emphasized that his coalition of pro-life Democrats is sticking together: ‘My numbers remain firm at 12. These are 12 who voted for it [in November] who will not vote for it unless we resolve this issue.”<\/line> <\/line>Now, there\u2019s a big trick, there is a huge trick that is being planned in the Senate regarding abortion to try to satisfy Stupak and his guys, and I have to say the Republicans have discovered the trick, and they\u2019re not going to fall for it. The trick — and I\u2019ll explain this in greater detail when we come back — but the trick was to get Republicans to go along with stripping any federal funding for abortion in the Senate bill during reconciliation, and the Republicans would go for that but Republicans, oh, pro-lifers out there vote for Republicans, and the Republicans said, ‘Hey, hey, hey, hey, we\u2019re not going to carry your water. This is your bill. If you want to strip abortion funding out, you\u2019re on your own, we ain\u2019t doing it for you.\u2019 Now, that\u2019s gutsy because they\u2019re running the risk a lot of pro-life groups are going to see the Republicans refusing to strip federal funding from the Senate bill, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa wait a minute here. I thought you Republicans were pro-lifers.\u2019 <\/line><\/p>\n

This is going to be an interesting test because the genuine pro-life groups out there are going to understand what\u2019s going on. The objective is to defeat health care, not come up with a health care bill that does not have federal funding for abortion. The objective is to wipe this out. The objective is to stop it. Not to end up with a bill that Democrats will sign and give to Obama and the only way to do that is to not help them strip the abortion funding out of the Senate bill. The Republicans are not going to do that. Am I making myself clear on this? Do you understand? I\u2019m willing to say it two or three times because this is going to be one of those times where the Republicans in the Senate are going to go against their core belief, they\u2019re gonna look like they are because the real pro-life groups know that at the end of the day there\u2019s going to be federal funding for abortion if this thing passes. It\u2019s going to get added at some point down the line. The objective is to make sure this thing doesn\u2019t go any further than where it is right now, and the Republicans are not going to help the Democrats satisfy Stupak. It\u2019s just that simple. At least that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying now.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: All right, let me try to explain this again here, because if you\u2019re hearing this for the first time it may sound a little convoluted. One of the great, great talents I have is making the complex understandable. So let\u2019s start at the beginning. Bart Stupak (Democrat-Michigan) House of Representatives is pro-life. The only thing Stupak objects to in all of this Obamacare garbage is the fact that abortions are federally funded in the Senate bill. Stupak says he has 12 votes to vote against Obamacare, the Senate bill, unless the federal funding for abortion is taken out of it. Now, the Democrats in the Senate don\u2019t want abortion taken out of it (they put it in there because they like it) and most of the Democrats in the House want federal funding for abortions. <\/p>\n

If this passes — in any way, shape, manner, or form — no matter what they do, there will be eventually and ultimately federal funding for abortions, taxpayer-funded abortions in Obamacare. So if there is reconciliation… Now, remember, Stupak is saying that he hasn\u2019t seen a bill, meaning they\u2019re making promises to him that the abortion funding will be stripped out of it but he hasn\u2019t seen it in writing. The reason he hasn\u2019t is because reconciliation hasn\u2019t begun, and there\u2019s still a genuine question as to whether or not there will ever be reconciliation. See, the argument is they\u2019re trying to convince Stupak they\u2019re going to make him happy but they\u2019re not showing him anything in writing and he\u2019s demanding it in writing. <\/p>\n

There is nothing to show him. So if — if, if — we get to reconciliation, the Senate Republicans have announced a strategy to block any effort the Democrats make to take abortion funding out of it. This is going to incur the wrath of some pro-life groups if they\u2019re not up to speed on this, and I hope the Senate Republican leadership takes some steps behind the scenes to explain what\u2019s going on here. But see, the objective here is not — and for those of you who are pro-lifers, understand something: The overall objective here is to kill the bill, not get a bill passed that strips funding for abortion. This bill is a disaster even if they strip federal funding for abortion out of it. So the objective here is to kill it. The objective is to send this bill packing yet again never, ever to be heard from again. <\/p>\n

Now the only way that Stupak, as far as what he\u2019s saying, can be mollified is if he sees something in writing in the reconciliation pack that says, ‘Yep, federal funding for abortion is coming out of there.\u2019 So if we go to reconciliation, there will be an effort by the Democrats to strip abortion funding from the bill, and the Republicans\u2019 strategy is to oppose and stop and stop any such effort. What the Republicans are going to do to facilitate this in reconciliation (and remember this is this ‘budget reconciliation\u2019) is they\u2019ll raise a point of order. This is a procedural effort that is objecting essentially to the reconciliation process. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re trying to get back to 60 votes to defeat this thing, when the Democrats don\u2019t have 60 votes, unless some Republicans join them in stripping federal funding. So the Republicans say, ‘We\u2019re not going to join the Democrats\u2019 efforts because we are not going to do the Democrats\u2019 dirty work for them. We\u2019re not going to be the guys, just because we\u2019re thought to be pro-lifers, to make Stupak happy. We\u2019re not going to be the guys that take language he doesn\u2019t like out of this bill. If the Democrats want to take it out they gotta find a way to do it on their own without us and we\u2019re going to invoke a point of order which is going to require them to get 60 votes to do it.\u2019 Now, holy hell is going to be raised if we get to this point. Again, I\u2019m still not convinced we\u2019re going to get to reconciliation. Look, folks, it\u2019s very simple. <\/p>\n

You Democrats in the Congress gotta ask yourself something: If a president of the United States would ambush a Supreme Court sitting in front of him at a State of the Union speech, if a president of the United States would ambush Supreme Court justices, do you think he would have the slightest compunction in ambushing you either in front of you or behind your back? If this guy is willing to diss the US Supreme Court and the justices who showed up at the State of the Union, don\u2019t think you\u2019re sacred. So the whole point here is to defeat the bill if it goes to reconciliation. If it gets this far — I\u2019ll be stunned, but if it does, this is the strategy — Democrats are going to have to find a way to take abortion funding, let them make their base mad and let them make Stupak happy. The Republicans are not gonna carry the water for the Democrats to make Stupak happy. That\u2019s a big test if we do get to this reconciliation biz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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