Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK) tells the New York Times:
The worst thing we could do in a recession is raise taxes, and this bill does just that. … Finally, I do not believe that the possibility for taxpayer-funded abortion has been clearly and emphatically removed from this legislation.
Boren is dead on. The House bill raises taxes by $700 billion at a time when our unemployment rate is already 10.2%.
And contrary to the President’s promise, the current House bill also enables taxpayer funding for elective abortions.
No wonder Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refuses to let House Democrats go home and listen to their constituents before voting on her health bill.
Oklahoma’s lone Democratic Congressman, Dan Boren, opposes any law that leads to a government-run health care system. Moreover, should a health bill pass he pledges to join that plan, even if the plan for federal lawmakers is a better one.
For his stance on the health care debate he was rewarded at a recent townhall event with applause. So was Kelly Glass who summed up much of the sentiment consuming townhall protesters this month:
I feel like a caged animal now. My freedom is going away and I have to go to all these town hall meetings and take off work and fight for my freedoms. You guys are up there in Washington talking and talking and talking and nothing is getting done.