No easy way out for democrats on abortion
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/11/09 4:44 AM EST

The sudden spasm of intense debate over abortion on Capitol Hill this week
threatens not only to stall the passage of health care legislation, but also
to shatter the delicate cease-fire that has governed the abortion issue
during the BO era.

After months of dodging high-profile confrontations over abortion,
Democrats — including BO — find themselves faced with a stark set of
alternatives: Support a bill that imposes limits on access to abortion or
demand one that might, however indirectly, fund the procedure with
taxpayer money.

It's the kind of decision point the White House and Democrat leaders have
consistently attempted to avoid. By playing down divisions over abortion
and emphasizing shared goals — such as reducing the number of unwanted
pregnancies in the United States — members of the president's party have
sought to blur the lines of one of the country's most furious and enduring
debates.
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Seems like the Prez can't catch a break...Even his most difficult tasks somehow find a way to get even more difficult or impossible

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Dr. Spaceman: Now Jenna, medically speaking for your height your weight puts you what we call the "disgusting" range. Fortunately there are solutions. For example, crystal meth has been shown to be very effective. How important is tooth retention to you?

That is the nature of the job. Many of the democrats cut Bush NO slack because they insisted everything should be easy or obvious. I hope they have the grace to look back on their constant criticism and rethink how grossly unfair they were and how their lack of understanding that things aren't always black and white made things harder on our nation. Alternatively, I wish they wouldn't be so hypocritical as to apply a different set of rules to everyone else.

Agreed

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Dr. Spaceman: Now Jenna, medically speaking for your height your weight puts you what we call the "disgusting" range. Fortunately there are solutions. For example, crystal meth has been shown to be very effective. How important is tooth retention to you?

Call me cynical, but if you're a politico who doesn't have a Toy Story hero for health care reform, but also don't want to be cast as starring against that crusade, setting down a hot button landmine on the tracks creates a rather interesting diversion, and may derail an oncoming train, without having to get one's hands overly dirty in the process.

Kevin, I am not even sure what you wrote. I have been bumfuzzled. I think you are suggesting this is a calculated diversion but I need more commas and periods to be sure. My brain only carries so many words per sentence.

close enuf

I want Buckhalter (pun intended) the House Minority leader to get hit by a rogue sanitation truck.