Ah Congressman Chris Smith. He's doing his best to make sure he stays on the all abortion, all the time message. It's almost like he's having his own debate about heatlhcare and it comes complete with his own facts, statistics and theories. Here's the video and we'll look at the highlights following:Redtory thinks the Congressman's comments and conspiracy theories put the GOP touted death panels in the rear view mirror:
Never mind Sarah Palin's ridiculous "Death Panels" meme that was flogged to boredom by the mainstream media, sheesh, that's so last month's old news. The Democrats' wimpy, industry prostituted healthcare reforms now grinding through the congressional sausage factory have been re branded as the "Abortion Industry Bailout Bill of 2009" - a heinous piece of legislation according to Congressman Smith that will "cause hundreds of thousands of additional abortions per year" - apparently through a wickedly clever combination of marketing, public subsidies and government funding of mysterious "new venues" (for abortions).
Oh, you may think Rep. Smith is a crackpot, but he confidently asserts he's got "empirical evidence" on his side verifying that flaunting wads of cash in front of "vulnerable women" who feel they have absolutely "nowhere else to turn" has been proven to "tip the scales" in favour of incentivizing them to expeditiously liquidate their fetuses rather than turning to a local "pregnancy care center."
Smith has been totally over the top with his rhetoric throughout this debate. This video was just a continuation of the attacks he has offered over the past few months, which he used at the conservative Values Voters Summit recently:
Smith predicted that abortions could rise by as much as one-third because of the massive abortion subsidies and mandates found in HR 3200 and the Kennedy and Baucus bills.
"Never have I been more concerned about the promotion of abortion coming out of the White House," Smith said. "The unborn child and his or her mother are more at risk now than ever, since Roe v. Wade itself."
He added that Obama and his administration have been "demonstrably false and extraordinarily misleading" in talking about abortion and the health care bills.
This is becoming common place for Smith to attack and distort the healthcare debate. Smith also said in his video comments that what the Republicans are doing is "healthy disagreement" and the President should stop labeling it as bickering. So using rhetoric like "death panels" and "abortion bailouts" are healthy disagreements? Come on. He made sure to also hit the media mentioning all stations but Fox for not "fairly" covering all sides of the debate as he put it.
