Bart Stupak (D-American Catholic Bishops Conference) will not seek reelection. This is an interesting article, more for what it doesn't say than what it does.
Stupak had mulled retirement for the last several cycles but had always found a reason to return. He was contemplating his next step in politics long before the vote on final passage of the health-care bill last month and actively considered a run for the state's open seat governor's race earlier this year before deciding against it.
But, with the passage of health care reform - the main issue on which he ran eighteen years ago - finally completed, Stupak decided his work in Washington was done.
My reading of that is that Stupak listened to the Catholic Bishops and then they left him hanging out to dry when the pushback came. He was played, pure and simple. And maybe this time, he finally figured it out.
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