By GottaLaff
TPM has reminded us that there are consequences for every vote in Congress.
NOW, NOW...
NOW says it is "incensed" over the abortion deal President Obama has struck to get health care reform passed.
That was repercussion #1.
A lot of us are wishing that abortion rights, legal abortion rights, the ones that are legal, wouldn't be tampered with. Speaking of which, Joan McCarter (AKA MCJoan at Daily Kos) tweeted something that's getting a lot of play on Twitter:
There's benefit to Stupak's obstructionism: A resounding declaration this bill does NOT pay for abortion.
And if you listen to Michele Bachmann (I jotted this down while she was ranting on the Tee Vee Machine), the anti-choicers are doomed, doomed:
"Nobody can call themselves pro-life EVER AGAIN if they vote for this bill."
Oh, but they will. And we'll continue to call them anti choice.
Sidebar: Bachmann also slipped and called Democrats "pro-life". That was yummy.
Now for repercussion #2.
Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO says that unions will remember which Democrats voted against health care reform.
"[T]hat'll be part of what we look at when endorsements comes. This will be a big one. This will have more weight than a lot of the other little ones."
Election 2010 is getting interestinger and interestinger.
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