An American Lion

If you don’t reform health care, I might stop loving you

Even though I may not have been paying that close of attention to the debate over health care reform, I did notice that, as soon as it became about abortion, everything turned upside down and gave everyone the political cover they needed to maintain the status quo:

More than 40 lawmakers vowed to oppose the final healthcare bill if the House language on abortion is not removed.

Reps. Diana DeGette (Colo.) and Louise Slaughter (N.Y.) led the group of Democrats in writing to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) threatening to withhold support for a final conference report if it strictly prohibits federal funding for abortion services.

“We will not vote for a conference report that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law,” reads a draft of the letter.

DeGette and Slaughter, who is the chairwoman of the powerful Rules Committee, also wrote President Barack Obama requesting a meeting on the issue next week.

Obama indicated that his aim is to maintain the current federal limitations on funding for abortions, not expand them, and he hinted the language adopted by the House may go too far. “There needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo,” Obama said during an interview that will air on ABC News.

How is abortion even an issue here? How do you go from having to reform the system of how Americans pay for health care and how employers need a viable option to provide health care to their employees in order to stay in business to making this about some blue haired old lady with her post-feminism hangups and some sweaty old white man and his pathological fears of a plastic fetus floating in formaldehyde? I’m a sweaty old white man, and even I’m confused as to why abortion is being discussed in public right now. Didn’t we settle that? Isn’t it the law of the land? Did I fall asleep and wake up in 1973 again? Who’s been giving me pills? Is there a way that I can time travel back to 2009? I’m confused as hell and I’m not remembering why we have to yap about abortion in order to ease the burden on small businesses in this country.

Is this just a misdirection play, making us think that they can’t do their jobs because everyone suddenly cares about abortion for the first time since whenever? If so, I’m not falling for it.

Democrats, you still don’t get your “ic” back with me. You are failures. You were handed everything but the cherry on top and you still couldn’t get anything done. The American people were with you, and you blew the game. You blew a 56 to nothing lead and you’re about to end up losing it all.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t 218 of you (save that opportunistic fool from Louisiana) just vote for a tax increase? How’d that work out the last time you did that?