How can anyone think this party will ever be capable of governing? With them running the entire Congress, nothing has changed:
"Conservatives in Congress have been indicating for weeks that they’re ready to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood. For many, the $500 million the group receives every year to provide women’s health services is unacceptable, given the role it plays as the nation’s largest single provider of abortions."
"The latter idea certainly seems to resonate with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). At an anti-abortion rally on the Capitol’s southeast lawn on Thursday, the presidential candidate did not say he would rather shut down the government than fund Planned Parenthood — but he did imply that there was no circumstance that would cause him to vote for giving the organization money."
“I don’t know about the rest of Congress, but I plan on taking a stand and saying, ‘Not one penny more for Planned Parenthood,'” he said to cheers from the crowd of about 100 people. “I have never voted for any funds for Planned Parenthood, and I never will.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/09/11/3700419/rand-paul-sarah-palin-planned-parenthood/
Even though the funds PP receives are prohibited from going to abortions.
The U.S. government shut down for 16 days in 2013 because some Republicans wanted to "defund" Obamacare. The shutdown hurt the economy and polls showed Americans blamed the GOP.
Several Republican lawmakers said it was a mistake.
"House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have both vowed there will be no more shutting down of the government. On Friday, McConnell called it "an exercise in futility." Last month, he summed up the folly by saying"there's no education in the second kick of a mule."
"Nevertheless, a sizable contingent in their party appears ready for a remedial encounter with the hooves. The government will run out of money at the end of September, and while congressional leaders have yet to offer a plan to keep the lights on, some Republicans have already seized on the notion of linking that vital spending to a bill defunding Planned Parenthood -- a move that would guarantee deadlock."
"From the perspective of anti-abortion Republicans, however, the likelihood of failure is less important. Since they lack the votes to win their goals, they are left with few ways to advance their cause or satisfy their voters."
"If we pass a piece of legislation that defunds the president's unconstitutional actions on immigration or defunds an organization like Planned Parenthood -- if we do that, we simply don't get a vote [in the Senate], and therefore to maintain that position requires a government shutdown," Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told reporters Friday in an attempt to explain the dilemma. "It's an insidious tragedy."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-gop_55f34c45e4b077ca094f392f
Mitch McConnell is dead set against this-we'll see if the House Gopers listen anymore to McConnell than they did Harry Reid.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview Friday he will back a plan to fund the government into December with no conditions, rejecting in his strongest terms yet calls from within his party to defund Planned Parenthood as part of a larger budget bill.
“It’s an exercise in futility," the Kentucky Republican said of a strategy that would likely provoke a government shutdown. "I’m anxious to defund Planned Parenthood" but "the honest answer of that is that’s not going to happen until you have a president who has a similar view."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/mcconnell-planned-parenthood-protest-exercise-in-futility-213557#ixzz3lZpGISA0
Correct and for this reason it's vitally important that we elect Hillary in 2016.
"Conservatives in Congress have been indicating for weeks that they’re ready to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood. For many, the $500 million the group receives every year to provide women’s health services is unacceptable, given the role it plays as the nation’s largest single provider of abortions."
"The latter idea certainly seems to resonate with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). At an anti-abortion rally on the Capitol’s southeast lawn on Thursday, the presidential candidate did not say he would rather shut down the government than fund Planned Parenthood — but he did imply that there was no circumstance that would cause him to vote for giving the organization money."
“I don’t know about the rest of Congress, but I plan on taking a stand and saying, ‘Not one penny more for Planned Parenthood,'” he said to cheers from the crowd of about 100 people. “I have never voted for any funds for Planned Parenthood, and I never will.”
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/09/11/3700419/rand-paul-sarah-palin-planned-parenthood/
Even though the funds PP receives are prohibited from going to abortions.
The U.S. government shut down for 16 days in 2013 because some Republicans wanted to "defund" Obamacare. The shutdown hurt the economy and polls showed Americans blamed the GOP.
Several Republican lawmakers said it was a mistake.
"House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have both vowed there will be no more shutting down of the government. On Friday, McConnell called it "an exercise in futility." Last month, he summed up the folly by saying"there's no education in the second kick of a mule."
"Nevertheless, a sizable contingent in their party appears ready for a remedial encounter with the hooves. The government will run out of money at the end of September, and while congressional leaders have yet to offer a plan to keep the lights on, some Republicans have already seized on the notion of linking that vital spending to a bill defunding Planned Parenthood -- a move that would guarantee deadlock."
"From the perspective of anti-abortion Republicans, however, the likelihood of failure is less important. Since they lack the votes to win their goals, they are left with few ways to advance their cause or satisfy their voters."
"If we pass a piece of legislation that defunds the president's unconstitutional actions on immigration or defunds an organization like Planned Parenthood -- if we do that, we simply don't get a vote [in the Senate], and therefore to maintain that position requires a government shutdown," Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) told reporters Friday in an attempt to explain the dilemma. "It's an insidious tragedy."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-gop_55f34c45e4b077ca094f392f
Mitch McConnell is dead set against this-we'll see if the House Gopers listen anymore to McConnell than they did Harry Reid.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in an interview Friday he will back a plan to fund the government into December with no conditions, rejecting in his strongest terms yet calls from within his party to defund Planned Parenthood as part of a larger budget bill.
“It’s an exercise in futility," the Kentucky Republican said of a strategy that would likely provoke a government shutdown. "I’m anxious to defund Planned Parenthood" but "the honest answer of that is that’s not going to happen until you have a president who has a similar view."
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/mcconnell-planned-parenthood-protest-exercise-in-futility-213557#ixzz3lZpGISA0
Correct and for this reason it's vitally important that we elect Hillary in 2016.
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