During a congressional session Sunday night while Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was speaking a random Congressman from the Republican side of the isle shouted “baby killer” at him. Nothing says dignified, logical debate like randomly shouted unscientific accusations. To the unknown shouter’s credit, it is true that Bark Stupak does kill babies and make them into shoes because, as he says, “They are just more comfortable than conventional shoes.” But it is clear that the representative, whomever he might be, was referring not to Bart’s baby leather shoes, but his support of the Health Care Bill. The remark is in part unusual because Bart Stupak refused to sign the bill until there were changes made to the bill specifically to make the bill less abortion friendly, making him the Democrat least likely to warrant the “baby killer” shout. More importantly, however, it points to the sheer childishness and lack of real logical debate on the floor. Not only was “baby killer” shouted at Stupak, but no one is coming forward as the shouter, and unbelievably the Republicans “near the shouter” are adopting an “I ain’t tellin’” policy to protect his anonymity.
Emotional outbursts and tattle tailing has a place in the fourth grade, not in the men and women who determine the legal future of the most powerful nation in the world that isn’t China. This is almost as bad as the time Nancy Pelosi got mad at Joe Lieberman, crapped into her own hand, and threw it at him. And it’s way worse than the time Henry Waxman stopped Dianne Feinsten from filibustering a Republican backed bill last August by giving her a full on serving of the People’s Elbow.
Legislators, you are better than this. Well, no you aren’t, but at least try to feign it when one of the most sweeping and important pieces of legislation in the last one hundred years is sitting in front of you.
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