{"id":4667,"date":"2010-04-09T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:40:46","slug":"stupak-to-retire-so-was-it-all-worth-it-bart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4667\/stupak-to-retire-so-was-it-all-worth-it-bart\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupak to Retire.  So Was It All Worth It, Congressman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Bart Stupak (D &#8211; Michigan), whose &#8220;I voted against the bill before I voted for it&#8221; sellout proved pivotal in foisting ObamaCare upon America, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0410\/35585.html\" target=\"_blank\">announces he will not run for reelection<\/a> this November.<\/p>\n<p>So tell us, Congressman &#8211; was it all worth it?\u00a0 You initially took a principled stand against ObamaCare, but then sold out your own cause on the basis of a promise from Barack Obama to issue an executive order, which doesn&#8217;t carry the force of Congressional law.\u00a0 This is the same Barack Obama who promised during his campaign to abide by public campaign finance limitations, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2154\/thank-goodness-for-some-broken-obama-promises\/\" target=\"_blank\">then changed his mind<\/a> when that became politically inconvenient.\u00a0 The same Barack Obama who opposed Hillary Clinton&#8217;s healthcare proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/home\/daily\/site_032410\/content\/01125108.guest.html\" target=\"_blank\">because it imposed an individual mandate<\/a>, but whose ultimate bill included that same individual mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Now, even Politico comments that &#8220;without Stupak on the ballot, the seat becomes an immediate pickup opportunity for Republicans.&#8221;\u00a0 In other words, even Nancy Pelosi now knows how it feels to be blindsided by Bart Stupak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressman Bart Stupak (D &#8211; Michigan), whose &#8220;I voted against the bill before I voted for it&#8221; sellout proved pivotal in foisting ObamaCare upon America, now announces he will not run for reelection this November. So tell us, Congressman &#8211; was it all worth it?\u00a0 You initially took a principled stand against ObamaCare, but then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,111,24,35,1091],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-stupak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}