Great win for Obama. He has to stay focus and make sure it reaches his desk. The stupid republicans did more to get this legislation pass than the coward democrats. They invited him to their little retreat thinking they were going to gang up on him and bury his presidency, instead he used the opportunity to highlight their ignorance and revive a bill that was as good as dead.
Half way through their little tete a tete you could almost see the word 'sucker' written on the republicans forehead. They realized they were had. I was surprise they didn't pull a Hitler and cut the T.V. feed right in the middle, but I am sure it crossed a few minds.
Stupak called 'baby-killer' on House floor Updated 12:12 a.m. By Paul Kane Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) acknowledged late Sunday night that a Republican yelled "baby killer" as Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) urged his fellow Democrats to vote down a Republican amendment on abortion services in the health-care legislation.
The remark drew immediate shouts of derision from the Democratic side of the aisle, as Stupak is considered the leading anti-abortion Democrat and held out his support for the legislation until President Obama issued an executive order restating the ban on federal funding of abortion.
Campbell, initially suspected as the lawmaker who shouted the phrase, told reporters that he didn't say it and believed that it came from a member sitting a row behind him, where the Texas Republicans usually sit. Campbell said he heard "a Southern accent".
"The people who know won't give it up," Campbell told reporters.
He said the remark was "clear as a bell."
Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said he heard the remark and said it did come from in the area of where the Texas and California delegations sit. He said he believes he knows who yelled it, but declined to say anymore.
It is also worth remembering that when Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act in 1935, he was properly modest. FDR insisted that "we can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life."
