Republicans Will Show Liberals What Government-Run Health Care Looks Like
When I saw that Kathleen Parker's ... op-ed ... defined me as a "backstabber," it reminded me of a Bible verse. Matthew 7:3 asks, "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"He accuses the "pro-life groups that rallied behind [him]" of doing so not out of pro-life enthusiasm but "because they viewed him] as their best chance to kill health-care legislation." When push came to shove, he argues, he went with the option most likely to protect the right to life--"an 'ironclad' commitment from the president that no taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for abortions." And that problem with judicial enforcement? The same should be true of George Bush's order restricting stem-cell research, he says. No one complained about that one.
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