(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.), co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, told CNSNews.com that Democrats who oppose government funding of abortion will try to block the health care reform bill from coming to a vote on the House floor unless House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) allows a floor vote on an amendment to explicitly prohibit abortion funding in the bill.

Meanwhile, the RC bishops have not yet dropped the ball on this one and find fault with Obama, the sweetheart of Notre Dame:

(CNSNews.com) – One day after the White House contradicted an assertion by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that all current versions of the health-care bill permit funding of abortion, the Catholic bishops declared they would “vigorously” oppose the bill if it was not changed to include language to prohibit abortion funding.

Meanwhile, Mayordaley II of Chicago has shown Obama and all other pols the way to true honesty, in an abortion-related context:

“My religion is very personal. …Religion does not play a part when I make a decision on behalf of the people of Chicago. It is a decision I have to make as mayor, not as a Catholic. …That is separate for me,” he said.

He’s one of the few — I’d guess the only one — who have declared themselves politically irreligious as a matter of policy.

Later, D., picking up on Daley as irreligious: That’s probably why there are so many crooked deals made in Chicago — because Thou Shalt Not Steal is the 7th Commandment — the religion thing again. So what DOES Daley base his decisions on — the rules of Parcheesi??

Me, moved to respond: No morals in politics, only expediency.  — V.I. Lenin.  Not kidding.  Got it as a Fenwick senior in religion class, from the late James Regan, O.P., 1948–49 school year.  Thus politicsprofessor.com and Time Mag, 11/17/1947, where Fr. Regan read it, I bet: he went regularly to Time for such items, remained an avid consumer of current events reporting to his final days nine years ago, at the Dominican Priory in River Forest.