How House Democrats plan to take advantage of Republican
overreach on abortion.  Who's winning, who's losing, and why.
Feb. 16 2011 6:46 PM  Forcing the Issue   Steve Israel. Click
image to expand. Rep. Steve Israel  The man in charge of taking
back the House for Democrats is talking about rape. When the
Republicans took Congress, says Rep. Steve Israel, a New York
Democrat, they didn't focus on creating jobs. "They focused on
redefining rape."  David Weigel David Weigel   He's referring to
the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, the first of several
bills Republicans introduced to chip away at the unpopular bits
of "Obamacare," and it had Democratic support. But eight days
after Rep. Christopher Smith, R-N.J., introduced the bill in
January, Nick Baumann of Mother Jones reported that the
legislation limited the conditions under which women could get
federal funding for abortions. "Rape" no longer counted; what
counted was "forcible rape."   That started the biggest backlash
in the short, otherwise happy li