Reply #49: HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!! Absolutely. It's about the PATTERN that's in play.

[bertman]

All of these people with their eyes on the Heavens, waiting and waiting for The Lord to arrive, need to look down to their history books and see what religion mixed with government has done to the world. How quickly they forget that our nation was founded by people who were trying to get OUT FROM UNDER RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENT. Of course, it was only the religious government THEY DIDN'T LIKE that they wanted to get out from under.

One big problem is that many Democrats only read the headlines or watch the evening news so they don't know the details. Last night my wife, who is a liberal but who has NO DESIRE to get into the nuts and bolts of politics, said that I must be pretty happy that the House had passed the healthcare reform bill. So, I proceeded to fill her in on my many misgivings with the "compromise" bill the House sent forward, including how they had slid in this prohibition on women being able to get health insurance with abortion coverage if they received any federal assistance at all. As I was explaining I could see her face becoming more and more grim-looking. Finally she said, "How can they do this? How can the Democratic party be behind anything like this?" (Great question, my dear)

Our dilemma is how to educate those who only see the bright headlines and know nothing about what's in the fine print.

Stupak and company, in collusion with some of the most reactionary fundamentalists in the GOP (Pitts and his fellow Family members) have tried to engineer a legislative runaround to negate a woman's right to choose. That it even made it into a Democratic-sponsored bill is beyond outrageous.

Apparently the funding the DLC, the DNC, and their spinoffs get from corporate sponsors is so substantial that they just don't need to support their core constituents. It will be interesting to see how they fare when they lose the support of women, gays, and the millions of male Americans who believe that women and gays should be treated as equals under the law. They have lost my support and I inform them of it regularly. I recommend that we all do the same. Never let them forget.

Thank you for your tenacious defense of our freedoms, Madflo.