Pro-life Democrat who voted for Obamacare accuses DCCC of abandonment
Rep. Steve Driehaus was one of Bart Stupak’s bloc* of 11 pro-life Democrats who caved to pressure from above and voted for Obamacare, hiding behind Obama’s worthless executive order to do so.
I wrote a week ago these Democrats now have nowhere to turn for help, with pro-life groups out to get them and Democrats not particularly liking them.
Well, it’s truer than I thought. Yesterday Driehaus posted a video on YouTube accusing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee of pulling funding it planned to spend on him.
Specifically, according to Politics Daily, the DCCC yanked a whopping $524,000 it promised to spend on tv advertising for Driehaus.
Incredibly, in his video Driehaus says part of the reason the DCCC is mad at him is over “tough votes on healthcare. How deceptive. As everyone knows, Driehaus voted with his party on healthcare and, in fact, is one of those largely responsible for the mess we’re in today thanks to that bill’s passage.
Yet another lesson for pro-life congressional Democrats. Your leadership mercilessly pressured you to violate your principles for your healthcare vote. And now it is abandoning you.
I have no clue why good pro-life Democrats like Dan Lipinski and Heath Shuler, who both voted against Obamacare and who will both likely survive the November 2 massacre, would want to remain in such a party.
Go, Steve Chabot (Driehaus’ opponent and 2001 sponsor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act)!
* The Stupak Bloc: Bart Stupak, Marion Berry, Jerry Costello, Kathy Dahlkemper, Joe Donnelly, Steve Driehaus, Brad Ellsworth, Marcy Kaptur, Dale Kildee, James Oberstar, Charlie Wilson
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Guess the turncoats are learning that pro-lifers no longer trust them and the DNC will abandon them once they’ve got what they want (healthcare). Too bad, so sad. If they would have stuck by their principles then pro-life would be sticking by them but as it is, bye-bye turncoats.
Donnelly here in Indiana seems to be doing just fine, unfortunately. The pro life groups have put up some “Shame on You” billboards in good places, but they are a bit hard to read.
Me, I wanted to put up billboards of Donnelly and Obama smiling together. “Keep the Dream Alive”. Probably would have been more effective.
” If they would have stuck by their principles then pro-life would be sticking by them ”
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Oh so true, Julie….and Driehaus would be in the lead right now with minimal risk of losing his seat.
Votes have consequences, and these so-called “prolifers” are learning it the hard way.
Oh cry me a river. So what did Driehaus and the other Blue(lap)dogs expect? That Nancy,Barack, and Harry would respect them in the morning? Face it folks, they wanted you for one thing and one thing only. Your warm body and the vote it would bring. Now like a one night stand you are alone the next day. I know its very painful to realize you were only “loved” for what someone could get from you and that you compromised your honor, but its a story as old as the human race. Consider it a painful lesson in life and move on.
The unfortunate reason Donnelly is doing okay here in NW Indiana is because he’s a Union guy. I know good people, pro-life, faithful people who vote Donnelly because of he’s “pro-union.” Sad :(