"I could only get 45 votes in the senate to go along with it." and "the Republicans were holding it over because they didn't like the bill" (last part paraphrased)

Republicans?  Quite obviously you couldn't get the support of more of your Democrat counterparts in the Senate.  You needed NO Republicans to join you.  In fact, if any Republicans were to join you, it would have been lauded as an endorsement of the overall measure.  Bipartisan this bill would never be Mr. Stupak.  In fact They were counting on you, a man of unquestionable integrity, a man of his word who was to be honored with a "Defender of Life" award tomorrow.. except now, you are no longer qualified.

You failed life Bart.  The executive order, as Bush's was, will be ignored.  The research was in fact performed by institutions receiving federal dollars.  you cannot guarantee where there are great flows of dollars from the public coffers, the absence of money spent on certain things.  It will happen, and it will be you who has enabled it to do so. Even the current Hyde language offers a pass for certain qualifiers, and when the health care becomes expanded to new "needy" folks, you can bet the number of those instances will increase.

But Bart I want to give you some good news..  You will have a friend in the Republican party in Michigan.  Rick Snyder, (you know.. the Nerd King?) was fortunately able to get $7.5 Million from Michigan taxpayers in 2007 for the investment vehicle paying for the Mengele like experimentation in Michigan's new Bio Grinders. Offensive?  Consider from where the Stem Cells are culled:

The main clinical application of stem cells is as a source of donor cells to be used to replace cells in transplantation therapy. Stem cells can be obtained from several sources:

    * Spare embryos: stem cells can come from leftover embryos stored at fertility clinics that were not used by couples to have children.
    * Special purpose embryos: embryos are created in vitro fertilization (artificially in the lab) for the sole purpose of extracting their stem cells.  Embryos and living or dead adult tissue provide stem cells.
    * Cloned embryos: embryos are cloned in labs using somatic nuclear transfer method in order to harvest their stem cells.
    * Aborted fetuses: stem cells are taken from fetuses in early development that have been aborted.
    * Umbilical cords: this after-childbirth tissue holds potential for research.
    * Adult tissue or organs: stem cells are obtained from the tissue or organs of living adults during surgery.
    * Cadavers: isolation and survival of neural progenitor cells from human post-mortem tissues (up to 20 hours after death) has been reported and provides an additional source of human stem cells

So Bart, give him a look up.. he may have a connection for you.. you know.. for a job?

In the end, denial of the realities in this bill easily escaped the soon to be unemployed congressman from God's country.  He denied ever hearing of the additional IRS agents or the additional funding for the IRS to enforce the new rules.  He insisted there would be no death panels, and called it "crazy."  He said "Medicare is one of the most popular and efficient programs run". And reiterated the CBO as the authority deeming it cost efficient and effective, all the while blissfully ignorant of the garbage in - garbage out possibility.

How has this man held the position for nearly 2 decades?  Given the small amount heard on this morning interview, there are two possibilities.