March 24, 2010 2:35 PM
When Bart Stupak announced his support for the Senate Health Care Reform
Bill, one reporter asked him if the deal between Barack Obama and the pro-life
Democrats was made face-to-face with the President himself. Mr. Stupak said that
he had made the deal working with White House
Counsel Robert Bauer.
Who is this Robert Bauer - the man capable of selling Bart Stupak a bill of
goods on the Executive Order?
Prior to his involvement with Mr. Obama,
from 2005-2007 Mr. Bauer was a registered lobbyist for
America Votes. In this capacity, he sought to enact laws that
would help the fund-raising prospects of left-leaning 527s. After he finished
the campaign of Mr. Obama, he served as the Counsel for the pro-choice election
powerhouse EMILY's List.
America Votes (AV) is a coalition of liberal groups that has, according to
their website "more than 20,000,000 Americans in every state in the country." AV
is controlled by an Executive Board that consists of 9 members: 5 unions
(AFL-CIO, AFSCME, NEA, SEIU, and UFCW), 2 global warming advocacy groups (The
Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters), 1 general liberal advocacy
network (Progressive Future), and, most importantly, the most
influential pro-choice lobby - The Planned Parenthood Action
Fund.
Of course, this doesn't prove that Stupak's deal is meaningless--we have to
rely on
logic and the law to prove that. But it is fitting
that Stupak sold out for a deal with a lawyer who has worked for the abortion
lobby. As Planned Parenthood's president said, the executive order is nothing
more than a "
symbolic gesture."
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