From the Hill:
I alluded to this many times last night and either he is the dumbest congressmen on the face of the planet or this was a great big charade all along. This guy is crazy to accept an executive order. Executive orders have to be enforced by the executive branch, can be rescinded at any time and CANNOT OVERRIDE FEDERAL LAW. IT IS USELESS IN OVERRIDING THE SENATE LANGUAGE ON ABORTION. Catholic and pro-life groups have been screaming from the roof-tops to not go along with this executive order ploy and are firmly opposed to this. Nuke the phone lines of the following congressmen.
PRIORITY #1
Lincoln Davis
John Tanner
Bart Stupak
Kathy Dahlkamper
Nick Rahall
Jerry Costello
Dan Lipinski
Marcy Kaptur (YES)
Allan Mollohan
Marion Berry (Bill Clinton is desperately trying to peel him off)
Steve Driehaus
Joe Connelly
Rick Boucher (Almost forgot him! He hasn’t announced but was a lean no last I checked.)
PRIORITY #2
Earl Pomeroy
Paul Kanjorski
Solomon Ortiz
Mike Michaud
Bill Foster (Doubtful, but still place a call)
PRIORITY #3
Brian Baird
If the Stupak coalition goes down and falls for this, they will be the most ridiculed lot ever in congressional history and be laughed at. If they hold, they will be regarded as the most courageous people that have been in the halls of Congress in recent memory. Will they be Benedict Arnolds or Nathan Hales?
Jim Kelly
Caleb Howe
Dan Spencer
James Richardson
If an EO would do the trick, then
bk Sunday, March 21st at 10:33AM EDT (link)what would be the problem with writing it into the law?
It doesn’t take a genius to tell this is just smoke and mirrors.