Boy, Republicans will go to any length to maintain their status as the Party of No:
All 41 Republican Senators vowed in a letter today to do everything in their power to kill Democrats' health care legislation and vote en bloc against procedural motions Democrats want to use to fix the health reform bill passed Christmas Eve by the Senate.
This would include a scenario where the Republican Senators oppose language championed by anti-abortion rights Democrats in the House and side instead with abortion rights defenders. [...]
“So you’d be voting with Barbara Boxer on an abortion measure?” a reporter asked Sen. Tom Coburn, the OB-GYN and Oklahoma Republican who vehemently opposes abortion rights, at a press conference this afternoon. Boxer, a California Democrat, is a vehement supporter of abortion rights.
“Yes I would. I certainly would,” Coburn said, clarifying that he would oppose a procedural motion in the Senate to allow the stricter ban on federal funding for abortion from being added to the Senate health reform bill.
A couple of things here ... first, it looks like Bart Stupak was just tossed under a bus driven by his erstwhile pals across the aisle. And second, add this to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) earlier concern trolling and you can see just how desperate Republicans are to stop a health care bill from reaching the President's desk.
Wavering and outright obstructionist Democrats need to ask themselves why, if passing health care reform is such an electoral loser like the GOP claims, why are they doing everything in their power to keep it from happening. And more importantly, why are those Democrats helping them?