How Do You Get The Legislation You Want? Be A Business That Coddles Pedophiles

Disgusting – yet not surprising:

Apparently the Catholic Church, just like the other Beltway lobbyists, now writes our legislation. Via McClatchy:

The drama had built for months, pitting a group of Democrats against the Catholic Church. Priests and bishops were calling members to lobby for stricter language to limit abortion coverage, members and aides said last week.

But the final decision played out over a few furious hours Friday night as the fate of the broader bill still hung in the balance and stirred up long-dormant tensions within the Democratic Party over reproductive rights.

The beneficiary of this impasse was Stupak, an outspoken abortion-rights opponent whom the leadership had tried to circumvent, in order to pick up the votes he claimed to represent. After months of stalemate, the speaker was forced to accept language Stupak first drafted over the summer that would bar any insurance company that participates in the exchange — including the government option — from offering insurance plans that would cover abortions.

“Normally, at the end of the day, you’re arguing over fine-tuning,” said an aide whose boss was involved in the negotiations. “But this is a sizable change to current policy. So everyone was kind of stunned.”

Okay, fair is fair – If I go kick my dogs, can I then force the Senate to add the current trans-inclusive ENDA language to the healthcare bill?  Or do I need to do something to the dogs that Paul Shanley or John Geoghan might do?

And does only Josef Ratzinger know for sure?