{"id":9083,"date":"2009-11-07T19:10:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T02:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2009-11-07T19:10:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T02:10:29","slug":"could-the-gop-stop-the-stupak-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9083","title":{"rendered":"Could the GOP Stop the Stupak Amendment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one Republican, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/07\/shadegg-to-vote-present-on-stu\">says he&#8217;ll vote present<\/a> on the amendment, and has four or five other members of the GOP who will join him. That may not be enough to scuttle the amendment, but it would make it close &#8212; Stupak has claimed between 220 and 225 votes in favor. If he was counting the whole GOP caucus, that would actually put him between 215 and 220 &#8212; and it takes 218 to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t know why the GOP is going to vote for the amendment, at least if their goal is to stop health care reform; about their only chance of stopping the House from passing the bill is to get the Stupak amendment to fail. If it passes, the leadership has the votes to move it forward; if not, they probably still do, but it may peel off enough pro-life Democrats to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, the GOP leadership has decided that reproductive rights is an issue that is important enough for principle to trump strategy. It would be nice if the Democratic leadership felt the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one Republican, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., says he&#8217;ll vote present on the amendment, and has four or five other members of the GOP who will join him. That may not be enough to scuttle the amendment, but it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-health-care-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}