Here are a couple of clever videos in case you missed them, one depicts Carol “Che” Porter and the other Bart Stupak. The videos speak for themselves. If you were an undecided Democrat, how would you want history to remember you?

History will either remember you as this type of Democrat:

Or history will remember you as this type of Democrat:

Your choice.

Ohio Representatives, I suggest you think deep and hard about how you vote on health care “reform” because the numbers are ugly. First, Susan B. Anthony List:

OH-01 Steve Driehaus

• 73% oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions (61% strongly oppose)
• 72% oppose taxpayer funding of abortions as part of healthcare reform (62% strongly oppose)
• 64% agree that abortion and abortion funding have no place in healthcare legislation (52% strongly agree)
• 55% would be less likely to vote to re-elect Congressman Driehaus if he votes for healthcare legislation that includes federal government funding of abortion (45% would be much less likely)

OH-06 Charlie Wilson

• 80% oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions (65% strongly oppose)
• 79% oppose taxpayer funding of abortions as part of healthcare reform (66% strongly oppose)
• 74% agree that abortion and abortion funding have no place in healthcare legislation (61% strongly agree)
• 64% would be less likely to vote to re-elect Congressman Wilson if he votes for healthcare legislation that includes federal government funding of abortion (51% would be much less likely)

OH-09 Marcy Kaptur

• 67% oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions (52% strongly oppose)
• 66% oppose taxpayer funding of abortions as part of healthcare reform (52% strongly oppose)
• 61% agree that abortion and abortion funding have no place in healthcare legislation (45% strongly agree)
• 47% would be less likely to vote to re-elect Congresswoman Kaptur if he votes for healthcare legislation that includes federal government funding of abortion (38% would be much less likely)

OH-16 John Boccieri

• 80% oppose using tax dollars to pay for abortions (67% strongly oppose)
• 79% oppose taxpayer funding of abortions as part of healthcare reform (67% strongly oppose)
• 71% agree that abortion and abortion funding have no place in healthcare legislation (60% strongly agree)

62% would be less likely to vote to re-elect Congressman Boccieri if he votes for healthcare legislation that includes federal government funding of abortion (50% would be much less likely)

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KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY BODY!  It has long been a slogan of the pro-choice movement.  Well, we have a new pro-choice movement.  The freedom to make our own health care choices and decisions.  As congress moves toward passing legislation that will bring the federal government into every aspect of our health care, should this not be a battle cry for those of us rallying to stop this bill?

The need to control the cost of health care is pretty much accepted by all.  However, more government is not the answer.  Medicaid and Medicare are not exactly success stories.  When Medicare was enacted in 1966 it cost $3 billion.  It was projected to cost $12 billion in 1990 - 1990 true cost? $107billion.  Medicare’s 2008 outlay?  $599 billion.  That’s a 20,000% increase in 42 years.  So those CBO projections the Democrats are crowing about…let’s just say they’re not too reliable.

The dirty truth is to control costs this bill intends to ration care.  When you hear “best practices” read rationed care.  Is every person the same?  Does every drug work the same for every person?  Does every therapy work the same for every person?  The answer to every question is no.  What the government will seek the do however, it to find a one size fits all solution to every health care issue.  What if you or your loved one don’t respond?  Tough luck.  Those who deny this will happen are either willing accomplices or just don’t want to face the facts.  Look to England and Canada to fact the future.  I have posted some links below - courtesy of Mark Levin’s website  www.marklevinshow.com  - where you can read stories from local newspapers about the horrors of socialized medicine.

Some of you may have heard about Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rahm’s brother and his Complete Lives System.  If you haven’t, look into it.  It rations care based upon how long you have lived and what you can contribute to society.

Any way this bill is parsed it takes health care choices and decision making away from the patient and doctor.  It must be stopped.

This health care bill is anything but pro-choice.  Call your congressman and tell him or her to:

KEEP YOU HANDS OFF MY BODY!  KILL THE BILL!

Canada

http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/socialized.html#canada

Britain

http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/socialized.html#britain

If you are reading this, no matter what your age,
or your political bend, or you race,creed,color, or that you
are male or female.
Understand that you are not the future.
You cannot, but for one action, impact the future. The best you can do is modify the present.

The Government we have now. The governments in all other countries, despite their feeling of omnipotence and their ruling with an iron fist (ours included) are NOT the future. They cannot, but for one stroke of the pen, affect the future.
Their power, as well as ours, is in the present. What the Government dictates, what we ALLOW them to dictate, affects only our present.
Taxes: present.
Jobs: present.
War: present.

You get my drift. Nothing they can do affects the future.
EXCEPT on nasty, little thing can be construed as the most Obama-nible action of all humanity. That is the squelching of our future generation.
The taking, for any reason. the unborn life of a child is the single, ABSOLUTE solitary action that any person or thing can do that truly affects the future.
In the unbound mind of that one child may live the ideas, thoughts and desires to act that profoundly changes our existence.
In that one innocent life may be the next Washington, Lincoln, Marx, Hitler, Einstein, Newton, Efram Cochran (warp speed ship?).
Yes, he can be on the side of goodness or badness.

But our Government is about to pass a bill without voting on it that for the first time, will be and act by our Government that can truly change the world’s future.
They want to make aborting not only legal, but paid for by the people of this once great country. It is a dictate that all must have a hand in changing our future. We must all bear the responsibility of not allowing these innocent lives to exist.
With the same excuse as posed by an execution firing squad, many shoot, only one has the bullet, we can put all citizens behind the gun, but each has the ‘lame’ excuse that thier gun did not have the bullet.

Well, it doesn’t work that way.
If we allow this to happen. If we allow this vote to stand. And we make no action to correct it in November, then we all have a hand in the death of our future.

We are NOT the future.
Our children are NOT the future.

The unborn, waiting for their turn ARE THE FUTURE for all.
And our Government is conspiring against them.
Don’t let this happen.

The other day, when Bart Stupak revealed that he was told “If you pass the Stupak Amendment, more children will be born and therefore it will cost us millions more”, I mentioned that it was no real surprise. Abortion is an agenda to the Left, it’s not about life or some perceived ‘choice’. I said that it just exposes the face underneath the mask a bit more; Now, it isn’t just about funding abortion, but using it as a cost-saving tool.  James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal agrees:

In order to be effective, a policy of using abortion as a cost-cutting measure would have to aim at preventing the birth of babies with such pre-existing conditions. The goal would be not a reduction in the number of babies, but an “improvement” in the “quality” (narrowly defined in economic terms) of the babies who are born. This is known as eugenics.

Eugenics, indeed. See, not only can individual women be  “punished by a baby,” but so can the entire World, evidently. This is one of the left’s dirty little secrets; factions of the left have been encouraging eugenics for years. The “green” movement, for instance, has population control at its core.  An example from Diane Francis, of the Financial Post, who in her article entitled The Real Inconvenient Truth: The Whole World Needs to Adopt China’s One Child Policy, echoes the true beliefs of many global warming embracers. You know, like the majority of the Democrats in Congress and our President.

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Tom Perriello, VA-5^th, is currently undecided on Obamacare but PROMISED to vote no if abortion would be funded by tax-dollars. Let’s remind him to keep his word.

Perriello is in a GOP + 10 district but still voted for the House bill after supporting the Stupak amendment. Since then, he has said several times that he will vote no on any bill that contains federal funding for abortion.

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/perriello_no_abortion_in_reform_bill/52788/

“The office of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Ivy, reiterated Thursday that he will oppose any health care reform bill that allows federal funding of abortion.”

Let’s remind him of his promise. In fact, let’s shut down the damn phone lines like we did with the amnesty bill back in 2006. I’m going to call each of Perriello’s offices and read these words back to him: “the congressman will oppose any bill that allows federal funding of abortion”. I’m going to make the staffer tell me that despite his promise, he is still undecided. Let’s make the staffer tell us that Perriello is going to force me to pay for a procedure I find morally reprehensible.

I’m torn about whether they’re going to pass Obamacare or not, but I know this much; I’m going to do my part by calling and emailing every day this week, and getting every freedom-loving American I know to do the same. If anyone else is in the 5th district of VA, please post in the comments, and we can work out some coordination.

Who’s with me?

The latest talking point spin from Democrats is, “Federal Dollars are not currently used to pay for abortions.  That will not change.  This legislation will not fund abortions.”  I must have heard this spin from at least 8 -10 Democrats over the last few days.  Let’s take a closer look at it.

What they are saying is very Clintonian (what the definition of “is” is).  Technically correct.  The Hyde amendment prohibits Federal money from being paid to reimburse doctors who perform abortions.  This is a limited application, but one that is accepted by a wide majority of the public.  The current health care legislation would NOT provide money directly to doctors that perform abortions.  It instead provides taxpayer money directly to insurance companies who provide subsidized insurance plans WITH abortion coverage to individuals who select them.  In other words, taxpayers are funding abortions, not directly, but through third parties.

The correct analogy to use is: 1) If I shoot someone, it’s murder; 2) if I pay someone else to shoot that person, it’s still murder plus conspiracy to commit murder.  It’s the same with this Clintonian parsing of what constitutes taxpayer funded abortions.  Bart Stupak obviously understands this.  I think it’s likely that many of the others who originally supported him in his opposition to taxpayer funded abortions are squishy on this and will end up voting for this bill.  After all, they are Democrats.

Bart Stupak just had a revelation. And it’s a disturbing one.

Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s health-care bill without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”…

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

If Obamacare passes, Stupak says, it could signal the end of any meaningful role for pro-life Democrats within their own party. “It would be very, very hard for someone who is a right-to-life Democrat to run for office,” he says. “I won’t leave the party. I’m more comfortable here and still believe in a role within it for the right-to-life cause, but this bill will make being a pro-life Democrat much more difficult. They don’t even want to debate this issue. We’ll probably have to wait until the Republicans take back the majority to fix this.”

We knew this. For all their talk of pro-choice, the far left is actually pro-abortion. It’s about an agenda to them, not about life. And remember, not too long ago Senator Feinstein said it was “morally correct” to fund abortion. This just exposes the face underneath the mask a bit more. Now, it isn’t just about funding abortion, but using it as a cost-saving tool. Bart Stupak is realizing that now — in a moment of division with his party, he had some clarity. He is a Democrat insider and he sees this chilling reality in his own Caucus.

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An ancient ripple courses through millennia and becomes a tsunami. That ripple started long ago in an ideal place. An event occurred there that was nothing short of a cataclysmic revolt in which man preposterously declared that he is fully capable of determining what is truth and on his own terms. Human pride dared to try in vain to usurp all authority and crown itself king . . . self made kings are always delusional self made idiots. That was true then and it’s still true today.

That long ago folly has rippled through time, repeating itself in countless and varied ways. Its effect is always the same. It is a hardener of human hearts, transforming flesh and soul from Agape to cold stone. From time to time, the original ripple gains steam and becomes a tidal wave phenomena, sweeping up millions in its path. In hindsight, it’s often pretty easy to spot the particularly big and dangerous waves in history . . . oh for instance, there was that time when human beings born with greater pigmentation were declared as somehow less human; talk about vainly lording over truth and reality! What sufferings resulted from that arrogant folly!

Today is really not that much different. The ripple is still there. Human beings still insist on sitting in the big chair and declaring what is and is not truth. Hearts still petrify as a result. A thousand ways to experience sorrow is still the natural consequence, touching the lives of both the innocent and the guilty.

But, sorrow is a forge capable of melting even the hardest, stoniest, most petrified of human hearts. This is a truth that’s often completely missed. Here, I’ll give you an example of human pride, a tsunami, sorrow, and redemption:

There is a mother of 4 children, pregnant with another child. She is in the 12th week of gestation. The mother is told by a midwife that heart sounds do not appear to be present in the womb. That finding is later confirmed by ultrasound. The mother has miscarried and the 12 week old infant, her child, lies dead in her womb.

The parents know the deceased baby is a boy and have already named him Philip. They have to make one last medical and moral decision regarding Philip, who they affectionately refer to as Pippo. The boy, Pippo, must be removed from the womb. There are two ways to go about it. One would be much easier on the mother, but would destroy Pippo’s body. The other would be more painful, both physically and emotionally, but would grant Pippo’s parents a great and powerful grace . . . the ability to love in the face of sorrow and the ability to respectfully say goodbye to a beloved. The parents choose the more difficult and less traveled road. The deceased Pippo is born whole.

Pippo’s perfect beauty is appreciated. He is wrapped in swaddling cloth. He is placed in a basket beside a cross and he his eventually buried. Sorrow and mourning are in plentiful supply.

Just down the hall, at the same hospital, is another mother who has also miscarried. She is a much younger mother and her baby is much farther along. Unbearable grief, mountainous in its gravity, descends upon this other mother.  Some of the staff of the hospital, seeing the healing effect of Pippo’s mother’s decision, suggest the same for the young mother, who readily agrees.

This young mother’s physician is a 40-ish woman who is vehemently pro-abortion. She consents to perform the procedure in an effort to help alleviate the young mother’s sorrow. After all, if it brought some comfort to the mother of Pippo, as the nursing staff maintain, then it may just do the same for her grieving patient.

The pro-abortion physician made a strictly clinical choice. The humanity of the miscarried child was not a factor. The physician, after all, was contentedly surfing through life on the tsunami of the pro-abortion mentality, which is, of course, just another expression of that ancient ripple where man insists on being the sole judge of truth. In this case, the self-made kings have declared that the preborn are not human beings, but only mere products of conception.

The 40-ish, pro-abortion physician’s heart suffers from the natural consequences of the ancient ripple. It is stony and cold, but sorrow is, as already mentioned, a little recognized forge. In the sorrow of Pippo’s death and in the sorrow of her patient’s miscarriage, the pro-abortion physician’s hardened heart is softened. The physician, cataracted all these years by the ancient ripple, finally sees real truth . . . a truth that exists even outside of her own, individual humanity.

After the procedure, as the pro-abortion physician looked upon her patient’s deceased child and upon the grieving love of that child’s mother, the pro-abortion physician cried, shuddered, ran to her office, locked the door, and sobbed; all of this evidence that a heart of stone has been miraculously transformed into a heart of flesh. The pro-abortion physician is now a pro-life physician.

Sorrow and grief . . . as horribly painful as they truly are . . . are a consequence of that ancient ripple. These awful consequences remind us of the folly of human pride, but they also can be transformative, as was the case with the formerly pro-abortion physician. Was all this a stupid accident? Or, were the life, death, and the mourning of Pippo an example of mercy and the divine toppling of evil, taking even its consequences and making it into an opportunity for grace, forgiveness, and redemption?

News Source for This Story: Lifesitenews

For the second time in 4 months, the forces of Obamacare have failed to bend the “Stupak 12″ to their will.  The End Game for Obamacare is finally approaching.

The AP reports:

Top House Democrats said they have given up trying to win over some conservative Democrats demanding that the bill strictly bar federal aid for abortion. That means they likely will have to win converts from among 39 House Democrats who voted against the House’s initial health bill in November.

This shows how “serious” Pelosi et al were about addressing Stupak’s concerns, and how un-Nelson-like the House holdouts on this issue have been.  Nelson caved in days, and the “discussions” with Stupak lasted what—5 minutes?

I wouldn’t call Stupak “conservative” in any way (he supports a “public option”) and for the most part, “Blue Dog” status is more mythological than unicorns and dragons.  However, on the issue of abortion funding, there is good reason to conclude that there is actually some pro-life integrity on the Democrat side in the House, and that integrity should be commended.  Does this surprise me?  Yes, but what a pleasant surprise.

The irony that abortion funding will be the final torpedo in comprehensive health reform is simply delicious.  The Hyde Amendment has been the law of the land for years, but the inability of democrats to continue to live under the principle of the Hydge Amendment will in the end, the death knell for their generational desire for HCR.

TIme to remain vigilent, but prepare for celebration (i.e. time to stock up on some extra adult beverages)!