Democrat tactic gone wrong?

Maybe the liberal democrats have tried a tactic that has backfired on them.

"There is growing outrage among the Democrats' own activist base over new and far-reaching abortion restrictions contained in the historic health care bill approved Saturday by the Democratic-controlled House."-NPR.org

Did the libs put abortion limits into the bill to help gain support in the house knowing they would have the opportunity to remove them later? Of course, they can't just go on state run media and tell the "activist base" not to worry we plan on removing it later. They know if the senate passes a similar bill it will have to come back for an approval vote in the house. At that time they can modify it and send it back to the senate for approval.

"When and if the Senate passes a health care bill, it will be melded with the House version and sent back to both chambers for a vote. Few are predicting that the abortion limits will survive."-NPR.org

I just thought it was nice of NPR to allude to this without putting it on "mainstream" media.

If this was the tactic, it has backfired terribly. They seem to have split there base and can't just tell them it's ok, we know what we are doing.  Now, let's hope they stay split so true conservatives can take full advantage of it.  The liberals have used the third party route to split conservative votes in the past elections by intentionally causing tension among republicans.  Perhaps we can take advantage of the split they have created themselves in the democrats.