Smith gains more headlines for rhetoric attacking Obama

by: Jason Springer

Fri Jul 31, 2009 at 02:30:00 PM EDT

The Catholic News Service goes with this headline for their story about Congressman Smith:

Obama misled Pope on his abortion agenda, congressman charges

I'm sorry, I missed the introduction of that agenda by the President. Smith is actually talking about the current healthcare debate going on in Congress. We'll let the headline go because the news service needed to get the remarks of Congressman Smith to give them the opportunity to come up with the headline.:

In remarks on the House floor last week, Congressman Chris Smith argued that President Obama purposely misled Pope Benedict XVI when he said that he "wants to reduce abortion" at their July 10 meeting.
Smith recalled the president's statement to the Pope and pointed out that Obama has repeated it several times to different audiences. And yet, Smith charged, Obama?s actions have not aligned with his words. "He says one thing and does precisely the opposite."

Smith is using the latest talking point for why we can't have healthcare reform, that is actually meant to promote more abortions and he made sure that people were clear in what he means:

Rep. Smith concluded his remarks by encouraging his fellow congressmen to vote against the health care bill and insisting that "[t]here will be children who will die if this legislation becomes law simply because the subsidies are there to effectuate their deaths."

And in their call for the Pro-Life movement to go to a Condition Red Alert, the National Right to Life communications blog cited the Congressman:

As Congressman Chris Smith has said regarding the stealth abortion agenda, "This is the big one!"

So by the Congressman's logic, anyone who wants to get healthcare coverage to people is secretly trying to advance the "stealth abortion agenda." I really thought we were trying to get people healthcare coverage. I'm so naive. Thanks for educating me on that one Congressman Smith. These latest comments are actually a continuation of Smith's attacks on the President. But Smith still wasn't done. He sent this press release out the other day continuing the rhetoric and scare tactics warning against any compromise on healthcare at all:

"Just as Americans are beginning to more fully appreciate and more fully understand the colossal threat posed by Obamacare to the culture of life including a massive expansion of abortion and rationing for the sick and frail elderly, some in Congress are now trying to cobble together a phony "compromise" on abortion mandates, and abortion funding," the congressman began. "While we have yet to see the language, please beware."

See it doesn't really matter whether the President talks about the economy, healthcare or stem cell research, Smith turns it into an attack over abortion to fit his own agenda.

Jason Springer :: Smith gains more headlines for rhetoric attacking Obama