
The two leading Democratic candidates to take Ted Kennedy's seat in the Senate oppose the health-care bill that passed the House of Representatives on Saturday night. Wasn't health care Ted Kennedy's issue? Sure, but so was abortion. In a Democratic primary, particularly in Massachusetts, it's never a bad idea to run as far left as possible. So, Rep. Michael Capuano and Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley have announced that they would vote against the bill passed this past weekend in the House should they get a chance to vote on it as the Bay State's next senator. "I refuse to acknowledge that this is the best we can do," Coakley explained. Has she ever heard the saying that the perfect is the enemy of the good? Capuano's stance is stranger, still. As a sitting congressman, he voted for the House bill. He then lambasted Coakley for her extremist stance: "She would have stood alone among all the prochoice members of Congress, all the members of the Massachusetts delegation," told the Boston Globe. "She claims she wants to honor Ted Kennedy's legacy on health care. It's pretty clear that a major portion of this was his bill." Realizing what party, and what state, he's running in, Capuano promptly disowned his vote and joined Coakley's all-or-nothing stance. It's not called the Abortion Party for nothing.
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