If the House passes the Senate health care bill, we will have Obamacare. There will be NO reconciliation after Obama signs it.
Bart Stupak, the Michigan congressman whose pro-life Democratic colleagues have the ability to determine whether the Senate health care bill that contains massive abortion funding lives or dies, said in a late Tuesday interview that no abortion deal is in place and he won't back down.
Stupak sparked some concerns with comments that he was optimistic that a deal could be reached on a sidebar bill that concerns some pro-life advocates.
They worry such a bill would enable the pro-abortion Senate bill and Obama would sign it but not the abortion funding limits.
Charles Krauthammer thinks Stupak will cave: