No, it's secretive to be an organization that only now, after extensive media coverage, admits that it's secretive, an organization the leader of which is on record -- recorded -- as saying "the more invisible you can make your organization, the more influence it will have." It's secretive, too, to say, as Stupak did to the LA Times in 2002 when they investigated C Street, "We sort of don't talk about the house" -- and then to declare in 2009 that he was unaware that it was anything but a room. It's secretive to accept subsidized rent and fail to report it. It's secretive to defend your association as one of personal faith, as Stupak has, and then to insist that he was unaware of any religious or faith-based proceedings at C Street, as Stupak has.
The debate over abortion is one thing, and on that, Stupak is certainly entitled to his opinion. But opponents of abortion have many more honest and honorable champions than a congressman who runs for cover when he's asked to explain his allegiances, who says one thing to one reporter and another to the other, depending on what he thinks they want to hear.
No, it's secretive to be an organization that only now, after extensive media coverage, admits that it's secretive, an organization the leader of which is on record -- recorded -- as saying "the more invisible you can make your organization, the more influence it will have." It's secretive, too, to say, as Stupak did to the LA Times in 2002 when they investigated C Street, "We sort of don't talk about the house" -- and then to declare in 2009 that he was unaware that it was anything but a room. It's secretive to accept subsidized rent and fail to report it. It's secretive to defend your association as one of personal faith, as Stupak has, and then to insist that he was unaware of any religious or faith-based proceedings at C Street, as Stupak has.
ReplyDeleteThe debate over abortion is one thing, and on that, Stupak is certainly entitled to his opinion. But opponents of abortion have many more honest and honorable champions than a congressman who runs for cover when he's asked to explain his allegiances, who says one thing to one reporter and another to the other, depending on what he thinks they want to hear.