Dakota Beacon

Byron Dorgan, Abortion, and the Cloture Vote Deception

In August of 2009, Senator Byron Dorgan promised the citizens at the numerous Town Hall meetings that he would not support a health care bill that did several things. Other than telling his state’s citizens what he would not do, there is no evidence that he made any effort to DO anything thing about opposing in any way, those thing he knew that the vast majority of North Dakota voters wanted. Instead, it will turn out that technically, he will be instrumental in advancing the radical socialist agenda of the President Obama, Senator Reid, and Representative Pelosi  triad (the ORP).

The Senator is telling you one thing, then purposely making sure that the ORP has a victory by providing the crucial procedural vote that really matters to ensure the massive take over of health care by the ORP. The Senator, having ensured the ORP victory will then vote against the bill on the final vote so that he can claim to have done what he told the home folks he would do. Once again, the head fake will work. Without doing anything to truly oppose the ORP  agenda other than say things, Senator Dorgan will ensure the opposite, and no one in the state media will have the guts to call him on this very significant bit of deception.

 In August Senator Byron Dorgan said, "I've indicated I won't vote for a bill that's a government take over of health insurance, or the healthcare system. I won't vote for a bill that pays for abortions, public funding for abortions. I won't vote for a bill that represents healthcare rationing. I won't vote for a bill that undermines or undercuts healthcare for senior citizens in their Medicare program."

From the fully documented and source referenced Heritage Foundation analysis of the bill:

“The Senate health care bill would overhaul the entire health care sector of the U.S. economy by erecting massive federal controls over private health insurance, dictating the content of insurance benefit packages and the use of medical treatments, procedures, and medical devices. It would alter the relationship between the federal government and the states, transferring massive regulatory power to the federal government.”

If Federal funds will be used for abortions in the final Senate bill it will before the first time in American history and your dollars will be dispersed by the federal government to kill unborn children. The bill as currently written allows requires federal subsidies to private health plans that cover elective abortions.  While the bill includes a “state opt-out” provision  so that if any state outlaws insurance coverage of abortion federal funds will not be used in “that” state, it’s all a huge deception because it does not prevent one state’s tax dollars from paying for elective abortions in other states. Senator Dorgan should be ashamed for complicity in this fraud!

Over $500 billion in Medicare cuts are demanded in the Senate bill. Chief actuary Richard S. Foster of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has raised the alarm that, the results of these cuts are likely to be so costly to hospitals and nursing could not afford to service Medicare paid patients any longer.

The likely political cover for Senator Dorgan will be that he will vote against H.R. 3590 on the final vote, because for passage all the Senate needs is 51 in support. His real vote that will make this law a reality will be providing one of the 60 votes for cloture, cutting off debate, thus allowing  for the final vote.

If Senator Dorgan votes for cloture, claiming that the bill deserves an up or down vote, and then asserts that he voted as he promised North Dakota, he may well fake-out lots of citizens of this state but in truth, he will have given all of the votes needed for the government take over of health insurance, government take over of the health care system, federal funding for abortion, and undermining Medicare.

It is evident for all to see that it is the intent of the Obama Administration and the Democrat Congress to eventually have taxpayer funding of pre-birth infanticide. President Obama cannot make this happen by himself, he must have complicit legislators. A cloture vote is a vote for government support of infanticide. Regardless of what he SAYS, voting for cloture, even though voting against H.R. 3590, will ensure the creation of the governmental super-structure that will eventually mean that the blood of unborn children will be on the hands of Senators Dorgan.