Health Care BS

Pretty much everyone agrees that the executive order for which Bart Stupak sold out isn’t worth the paper its written on, but it may turn out to be even worse than that. So far, it isn’t actually on paper and Obama hasn’t signed it:

President Obama signed the Senate health care bill into law Tuesday. He did not sign the executive order on abortion negotiated with Michigan Democratic Congressman Bart Stupak.

Moreover, Obama hasn’t given any indication when he will actually produce Stupak’s fig leaf:

A White House official told Fox, Obama will not sign the Executive Order Tuesday and has set no specific date to do so.

During two public appearances today, Obama was as silent as the tomb on Stupak’s infamous EO:

In two celebratory speeches Tuesday – one at the bill’s signing, the other at the Interior Department with health care advocates – Obama said nothing about the abortion issue or the executive order.

There would be considerable poetic justice in a presidential double-cross. Stupak deserves to be humiliated and the world should see (once again) that Obama is a pathological liar whose word is worth absolutely nothing.

UPDATE:

The NYT reports that Stupak’s EO will be quietly signed tomorrow afternoon. I guess Stupak called an begged them to put him out of his misery.