"The pro-choice groups all inexplicably put all their chips on the the mealy mouthed Capps Amendment which would have kept the Hyde Amendment status quo. Just as the party as a whole did with the public option, they came into the negotiations already having capitulated to their final position. They seem to have agreed in advance with the administration that abortion was a “distraction” that needed to be off the table. And as happens so often that you can no longer simply call it an accident, the opponents had no problems creating a distraction and they put it on the table anyway. It’s very hard for me to believe that somewhere there wasn’t a discussion in which [NARAL President Nancy] Keenan said that she could live with Stupak. Either that or she’s just too lame to be running an advocacy organization. (But I’m sure the Obama administration gave her big, big props for being “pragmatic” regardless. The invitations are surely rolling in.)"

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