By Dave Andrusko

Before I type another word, let me strongly encourage you to go directly from here to http://nrlactioncenter.com. And because you will be brought completely up to date at this site, I will offer just a few thoughts on the latest health care "reform" permutations.

Pro-life champion Rep. Bart Stupak

It's getting very heated around the Capitol. Headlines such as "Final 'reform' push: twisting arms" are not only common but apparently true.

The palpable tension is a combination of the magnitude of what is at issue--a breathtakingly massive restructuring of over a 1/6th of our economy which could easily provoke an angry electorate to take out its growing opposition to the measure on those legislators who vote for it --with the deceptive way the restructuring is being packaged.

We hear a plethora of rhetorical feints that if the House simply goes along with the bill passed by the Senate last December, differences and difficulties will all be made well by "reconciliation." One of the critical differences between the House bill and the Senate bill is that the latter does not contain the equivalent of the House pro-life Stupak-Pitts amendment, a bill-wide, permanent abortion fix.

But all the assurances to the contrary notwithstanding, if the House goes along, the American people will be stuck with the Senate bill, the most pro-abortion single piece of legislation since Roe v. Wade. Any subsequent "reconciliation" will do nothing to clean up the mess and anyone foolish enough to believe it will should not be allowed outside after dark.

Pro-abortion President Barack Obama

Read the lead paragraph in an Associated Press story that ran a couple of days ago: "In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep."

The first sentiment was a joke, obviously, but the latter was not. There are two kinds of promises Obama is making.

I have no doubt that Obama was sincere when he told liberal Democrats that "he understands their frustration" and that "'This is the first step, a foundation that we can build upon,'" according to Rep. Barbara Lee. "He made a commitment to work with us on all the issues that are outstanding, and there are many."

But judging by Obama's history, I am equally sure that does not hold true for those Democrats (and Republicans) in the House who believe that Obama has signaled that he would work to ensure that pro-abortion Senate language would be excised in the reconciliation process.

On the contrary, if they get their way on health care restructuring, President Obama and the pro-abortion Democratic congressional leadership will abruptly turn to a variety of other issues, leaving anyone who purports to believe that problems over abortion will be remedied holding the bag.

Please go http://nrlactioncenter.com and read Parts One and Three.

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