Asked if he was a big fan of the opera, Stupak, who represents a district encompassing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, laughed and said: \u2018No, I\u2019m not a fan of opera, especially not Russian opera because I wouldn’t understand a thing.\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2018The point I was trying to make\u2019 by relaying the opera story, Stupak said, \u2018is that the White House is pulling out all of the stops trying to get members to commit to voting for health care.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Gee.\u00a0 It took approximately $300 million to buy off Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA).\u00a0 Hundreds of millions more to bribe Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE)\u00a0and Bill Nelson (D-FL).\u00a0 All they could offer Stupak, who assures everyone that he has 12 solid pro-life House Democrats who voted \u201cyes\u201d in November but who are now committed to voting \u201cno,\u201d was a ticket to the Russian opera?<\/p>\n
Ironically, what the president refuses to realize is\u00a0that we are all waiting for the fat lady to sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Regarding all the back room deals and horse trading taking place on ObamaCare, we thought the American people had seen it all.\u00a0 Apparently not. President Obama, in his effort to sway key Members of Congress to vote \u201cyes\u201d on reform, invited Rep. Bart Stupak to the Russian opera last week.\u00a0 As reported by John McCormack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[943,12,944],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bart-stupak","tag-health-care","tag-russian-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}