Bart Gideon's Band

A follow-up from yesterday's Stupak prognosis of ObamaCare terminality in significantly more hostile media territory (in a way). Nice to see Tingle's continuing dismay settling in like the figurative gangrene taking that perpetual limb thrill's place:

For those in the "too good to be true" category, you can wonder why Stupak prefixes the caveat about "if you don't change the [abortion funding] language in this bill....", since the House has to pass the Senate bill verbatim before subsequent reconciliation "fixes" could even be considered, and if that happens, ObamaCare is already law. And, oh by the way, what reason would Dirty Harry then have to want to engage in nuclear war with the GOP over "fixes" that don't concern him?

Remember: the Stupak faction is the only one whose dissent has earned the right to be taken seriously because, when the rubber met the road, they stood their ground and forced Crazy Nancy to capitulate on their issue before giving the overall House bill their support. This time, the shoe is on the other foot in that they would have to offer up their yes votes first and trust Granny to keep her promise to them - a highly dubious proposition if they are still committed to their pro-life position. The logic of the situation would require that Stupak eschew caveats and demand that the current bloated wretch of a bill be terminated and the process re-set.

Is this latter-day Gideon's band just looking for a fig-leaf, or holding out for their own collective Cornhusker kickback like another heretofore "pro-life Democrat"? It shouldn't take an overabundance of mental acuity to recognize that in this equation, Bart Stupak and friends would have "sucker" written all over them. Their track record suggests that they're not THAT dense - quite unlike their detractors.

While savoring another of Barry O's "deadlines" hugging the root, behold for future psychiatric evaluation the face of hard-left obsession that doesn't have a coffin nail sticking out of it - though only because she can't move it sufficiently to, um, jam it in there.