Hey, really, ladies, Stupak is just no biggie.
It's horse-trading. It's politics. You know how politics is. You gotta be hard-headed, not pie-in-the-sky.
Politics is you sometimes hafta do stuff you know you really shouldn't be doing, throwing a bone here and there. It's just the way things work.
Periodically, you have to throw people under buses. Like now, throwing people under the Stupak bus. Because there's a whole lotta pressure going on. We need the support of these bishops, see, and these Con-Dems, in order to do other things that we really want to do. And, you know, you have to not get all emotional when we throw the civil rights of half the population under the bus.
Isn't that perfectly crystal-clear?
It's not about you, it's about us. It's about deal-making, and deal-breaking, and what's really important in life.
And what's really important is -- not your issues.
Because it never is, is it? That would be because they're secondary. Possibly tertiary. It's like single-payer. Why oh why would anyone want to still be pushing for Medicare For All, when it is obvious that no one would ever push it through, because why would they? Don't you know it's all over before you've even begun?
It's important the way you look at things. Look at this: public option = on life-support. Civil rights for women = fuggedaboudid. No one wants it. No one cares about it. It's just a tiny sliver of life. We keep telling you over and over and over again, it's a sliver, so we have to throw you under the bus because that's how we're going to get some bill, any bill, passed, and we just don't need you whining about pipe-dreams, whether it's Medicare for All, or civil rights for women, or what.
So be nice. No one really wants to hear you sniveling about government-forced maternity. (Or, for that matter, about Medicare Equality for All, which is almost the same thing.)
Keep in mind that classic feminazi truism -- you really don't have to be hit, to be abused.