Stuporked?

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 3/27/2010

Kathleen Parker turned Bart Stupak’s surname into a verb that means “backstabbed,” but perhaps she should have coined the term “Stuporked” instead. The Sunlight Foundation reviewed the earmark requests made by the “Stupak 11″ that had proclaimed themselves opposed to ObamaCare over the abortion language in the Senate version, only to […]

Waxman, Stupak to convene hearing to question businesses cost-analysis of ObamaCare

Victor Godinez The Dallas Morning News 3/27/2010

AT & T Inc. said Friday it will take a $1 billion noncash charge to account for changes brought about by the national health care bill signed into law this week.

Previously, companies could get tax-free subsidies to help pay for prescription drug coverage for retired workers and, […]

Rep. Patrick Kennedy: Federal Funding of Abortion Is ‘Not a Question of Morality’

Karen Schuberg CNSNews.com 3/26/2010

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), a professed Roman Catholic, told CNSNews.com Wednesday that federal funding of health plans that cover elective abortions is “not a question of morality” but “a matter of health — public health.”

“Obviously there’s going to be some legal decisions that are going to be coming forward, I’m […]

When pretense masquerades as virtue

Kathleen Parker The Chicago Tribune 3/23/2010

Etymology: Eponym for Rep. Bart Stupak.

Function: verb

1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principle (i.e. protecting the unborn), accumulating power in the process, then at a key moment surrendering in exchange for a fig leaf, the […]

Stupak takes his 30 pieces of silver in airport grants

Ace of Spades HQ 3/21/2010

Instapundit: Three quarters of million bucks for three, count ’em, three airports in Stupak’s district.

Maybe say hello to one of Stupak’s opponents in November, Dan Benishek.

Stupak… Now making the odd claim that his own language, which he appeared on HardBall 60 times to promote, does not “promote life.”

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Video: Rep. Bart Stupak in Cheboygan, MI

Posted to YouTube by TheFoundryBlog 10/29/2010

He tells these constituents that, even if federally funded abortion were in the health care reform bill, he would still vote for it. At CAJ, we’re now investigating what Stupak and other “pro-life” Dems got for their votes, because the Executive Order promise still isn’t passing the “smell test” […]

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