In Lebanon, PA Arlen Specter is holding a standing-room-only townhall meeting that’s being broadcast on Fox News live. He’s an idiot.<\/p>\n
The first question from the audience was in reference to the abortion clause in the health care plan. Her question was whether the tax payers would be forced to to pay for abortions. Specter told her that there were two plans available – that you could choose whether you wanted to have abortions included in your plan or not. But that wasn’t the question, was it? So the answer, I guess, is “yes” – taxpayers will be forced to pay for other people’s abortions.<\/p>\n
The next question was about the single-payer option. The voter asked Specter if he’d vote for the single-payer option – Specter said that “no” he wouldn’t vote for the health care bill if the single payer option was part of the plan. Then he turned around and said he’d work hard to keep the single payer option “on the table”. <\/p>\n
He says that according to the Hyde Amendment, public money cannot be used for abortion, and that he’ll never vote for anything that raises the national deficit. So you tell me how he’ll vote. His defense is that there’s no bill in the Senate right now so he can’t tell us whether he’ll vote for the bill or not. So if he doesn’t read it, I guess he won’t for it.<\/p>\n