Turns out that the eleven "pro-life" democrats who switched their health care vote hours before it was passed received $3.5 billion dollars in earmarks. They claimed that they were voting for health care because of Obama's promised executive order banning federal funds from paying for abortions. (This, of course, was a ruse...see article below.) These earmarks were approved on Monday, March 22, the day after their controversial vote. The timing seems suspect, right?
"The congressman's vote for health care has no connection to annual appropriations requests," spokeswoman Michelle Benoche said. "Appropriations requests were submitted on Monday, March 22, because that is the deadline of the Appropriations Committee."
Are we to believe that it is merely a coincidence that the day after abandoning their pro-life convictions, their districts are rewarded with billions of dollars? Without their eleven votes, the health care bill would have certainly failed. Are we to believe that these funds were never mentioned in the process?
You can call yourself a pro-life democrat, but if you're willing to sell your conviction for a price, you don't deserve the pro-life title. Some republicans are referred to as RINO's (Republicans In Name Only). Perhaps we should refer to these congressmen as PLINO's (Pro-Life In Name Only)?
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