Bart Stupak is now the rightous right's newest example of a Baby Killer. Wow, how quickly the pack will turn on one of it's own.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men

Deal Hudson - InsideCatholic - 3/22/2010

We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

The evening the Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed, I expressed the hope that a new era of pro-life politics had begun. For the first time in a long time, the Democratic Party had an advocate for the unborn around whom others could rally.

That was four months ago. Yesterday afternoon, that same man -- Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) -- who "made Nancy Pelosi cry uncle," to quote the Wall Street Journal's Bill McGurn, made her shout with glee. The health-care bill, filled with funding goodies for abortion providers, was the legislative lodestar for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a self-described Catholic who shrugged off every appeal from her bishop. (C'mon Deal this bill is not loaded with funding goodies for abortion providers. Besides, we have alot more nuclear warheads than we do abortion providers. {Just though I'd throw in a non sequitor like Sarah Palin.})

Our dried voices,

when We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

Stupak looked hollow and shame-faced as he made the rounds of cable news shows on Sunday explaining the reasons for his change of mind. For the past 160 days, Stupak has been a hero to millions of Americans who believe the right to life is the basis of all other human rights.

Now, Stupak has become a hero to the other side and another example of why our young people view politics cynically -- not as a vocation but as an excuse to put partisan interests ahead of transcendent truths. (Well actually, young adults like my daughter thought Stupak finally put the interests of all Americans ahead of cells in a petri dish. However she is pretty cynical--especially about rightwing pundits who reprioritize Catholic doctrine for political agendas.)

Those who have crossed

With direct eyes,

to death's other Kingdom Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost

Violent souls, but only

As the hollow men

The stuffed men.

After seeing through the deceptions of Sr. Carol Keehan's Catholic Health Association, Catholics United, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and NETWORK, Stupak couldn't see through the deception of an executive order to be issued by President Barack Obama providing "safeguards" against abortion funding. (Deal, Bart warned you when he spoke about being a 'deal maker' {or in you case a Deal breaker} Ain't no bigger dog to make a deal with than the Prez. Makes a bishop deal look down right puppy like.)

"This is the principle we have fought for all these months -- I am now comfortable voting for the bill," Stupak told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News. Stupak admits an executive order can be rescinded at any time, does not have the force of law, and has no authority over those implementing the bill in the private sector, but still says he feels vindicated in his decision.

This is the dead land

This is cactus land

Here the stone images

Are raised, here they receive

The supplication of a dead man's hand

Under the twinkle of a fading star.

It was reported that Stupak relied heavily on support of staff from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in passing his amendment to the House bill barring abortion funding. Today, Stupak turned his back on those who sat with him through the turbulence of the November debate and put himself in thrall to the Democratic leadership who want nothing less than abortion on demand, paid for by the federal government.

The eyes are not here

There are no eyes here

In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley

This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

This executive order is nothing more than a promise from one man to another, from Obama to Stupak. It can be withdrawn at any time -- or, more likely, it can be ignored. Stupak should know that the promise of a man who once supported infanticide, and who on his first day in office repealed the Mexico City Policy, is not a man you can trust on the issue of abortion. (Perhaps Bart came to the conclusion that Catholic bishops are even less credible. There is some factual evidence that would indicate that would have been wise on Bart's part.)

Stupak's decision betrays Catholics and the faith he calls his own. As I said in my press release for Catholic Advocate, "Today's vote will go down in history as one of the greatest expansions of abortion since Roe v. Wade." (What will you say when abortion actually goes down as it has in every other country in which there is some form of guaranteed health coverage. That's every country.)

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

(Maybe your world.)

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Many of us tried to warn folks on the right about what would happen if they should stray just a tad bit from the absolutist line. Bart Stupak is sure finding out what happens. He's gone from 'Champion of the Unborn' to 'Baby Killer' in less than about twelve minutes. At least he now knows who his true enemies are, and always were---who he should have been afraid of and who he misread so totally.

Fanatics are fanatics for a reason.

Friends become enemies in a nano second.

Forgiveness is an option only for the faithless.

Profit is their God.