It's getting harder to believe Democrats

As a payoff to Bart Stupak and his small band of followers for changing their minds on health "insurance reform," President Obama signed (behind closed doors, without any cameras - again) an Executive Order that does nothing more than confirm Obama's support of the law recently pushed through Congress. Both Obama and Stupak know that the Executive Order does not change the abortion funding in the new law and will do nothing to prevent all taxpayers from being forced to pay for abortions. Stupak made a big show as a pro-life Democrat and wanted us to believe he was standing on his principles. But when Obama and Pelosi applied a little pressure, he folded like a cheap tent and provided the last votes needed for passage. Stupak, as Phyllis Schaffley recently stated, has destroyed the myth of a "pro-life Democrat."

Closer to home here in Illinois we have our own myth buster. Melissa Bean has always campaigned as a pro-business (especially small business), pro-free enterprise, fiscally responsible Democrat. She made a big show of how she was undecided about the health care bill up until the very last, but in the end she voted for it even though she surely never read it and had no idea what will eventually emerge as the final product. She surely understands that it will increase health costs, reduce Medicare benefits, increase taxes, stifle investment incentive, increase unemployment (except in Big Government) and bankrupt the states and our country. Bean has destroyed the myth of a "fiscally conservative Democrat."

Some of us are learning that you cannot believe anything a Democrat says. Maybe it is easier to just vote them all out of office.

Kelley C. Smith

Long Grove