by Nancy Colasurdo on March 24, 2010
Just two of the many, many messages from “Christians” that Congressman Bart Stupak, a strong opponent of abortion, has been treated to in the wake of this week’s health care reform:
“Congressman Stupak, you baby-killing mother f***er… I hope you bleed out your a**, got cancer and die, you mother f***er.”
“There are millions of people across the country who wish you ill and all of those thoughts that are projected on you will materialize into something that’s not very good for you.”
Jesus must be so proud.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 24, 2010
From a reader named Fran:
I wanted to thank you for your article on Fox Business about the health care plan that was signed into law this week by our president. I am a Democrat but I don’t always follow the party line; there are things in the bill I don’t like. But there are things in life I don’t like. Doesn’t mean I stop living.
What I liked most in your article was the part about how we need to find common ground — and how polarized we’ve become. I admit to falling into that trap as well — feeling myself an “us” and anyone who doesn’t agree with me a “them.” It seems such a hard mantle to shake off some days.
But your article helped me shake it off today and for that I’m grateful. There are plenty of us “lefties” who want good, happy, productive, fulfilling things for our nation and its people. And I keep reminding myself that there are “righties” who want that as well.
Thank you … thank you … for your article. Peace.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 24, 2010
To say this has been an emotionally intense week politically is an understatement. President Obama signed health care reform into law yesterday and it has brought a jumble of feelings with it for me as a life coach and a concerned citizen.
I found myself envying friends who have managed to stay out of the fray this week because it has been so disheartening, but as a columnist I don’t have that option. Staying tuned in is key for intelligent commentary, methinks.
Check it all out in today’s Game Plan — Health Care: Personal and Professional – and feel free to chime in here.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 23, 2010
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 22, 2010
So sad about the polarization in our country.
Just really, really sad.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 21, 2010
Bart Stupak’s comment about nuns apparently hit a nerve with not just me, but New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd:
We might have to bang Bart’s head into a blackboard a few times before he realizes that in a moral tug-of-war between the sisters and the bishops, you have to go with the gals.
Amen.
To read the full column: Eraser Duty for Bart.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 19, 2010
Helene Cooper in today’s New York Times:
Nuns Back Bill Amid Broad Rift Over Whether It Limits Abortion Enough
An excerpt:
[Congressman Bart] Stupak hit back at the nuns on Thursday, saying they did not have much influence.
“With all due respect to the nuns, when I deal or am working on right-to-life issues, we don’t call the nuns,” he said on the MSNBC program “Hardball.”
Well, genius, maybe you should. It’s not the nuns costing the Church billions in legal fees because their sexual appetites include minors. And it’s not the nuns transferring pedophile priests from one parish to another all over the globe. And, geez, ask anyone who had a good Catholic education (like me) if there isn’t at least one nun responsible for the fact that — unlike about half of America — they know the difference between “their” and “there.”
The nuns seem to have that separation of church and state thing in perspective. They know how to nurture their relationship with their God without foisting on everyone else.
Good God.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 19, 2010
Tiger Woods is back for the Masters and, well, I put him on my virtual life coaching “couch.”
Today’s Game Plan: Life Coaching Tiger Woods.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 17, 2010
Loved tonight’s Throwdown with Bobby Flay — filmed in Hoboken! He challenged Omar Giner from La Isla restaurant here and the competition was stuffed French toast.
It was great to see shots of the Hoboken waterfront and to see Flay and his team emerge from the PATH station.
But now will I be able to get near La Isla to try the French toast stuffed with a cream cheese, guava and fresh strawberry filling? I live three blocks away. You know I’m going to try.
by Nancy Colasurdo on March 17, 2010
Watching Bret Baier’s interview of President Obama on Fox News and the deconstruction by Baier’s panel. So interesting to hear the repeated — wishful? — theory that if health care reform doesn’t pass the President will never recover.
I guess that depends what one means by “recover.”
Former Senator and current Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for example, seems to have recovered rather nicely from her health care experience. And Bill Clinton, well, if there weren’t term limits he could have probably stayed put on Pennsylvania Avenue for a while.
Just sayin’.
