Posted on 08/10/2015 9:31:59 AM PDT by conservativejoy
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly implied yesterday that he wouldn't push to defund Planned Parenthood in the September appropriations negotiations. McConnell seemed to express fears that such a fight could backfire on public perception of Republicans, particularly if it led to the threat of a government shutdown:
"We've been down this path before," McConnell said. "This is a tactic that has been tried going back to the '90s and it always has the same ending — that the focus is on the government shutdown and not on the underlying issue that is being protested.
We are not doing government shutdowns and we are not threatening to default on the national debt."
The Majority Leader said, however, that the investigations into Planned Parenthood, led in the Senate by Chuck Grassley (R-IA), will press forward as planned.
"We intend to continue to pursue the facts, and we'll look for other opportunities to make our voices heard on Planned Parenthood."
McConnell's delaying of a fight over Planned Parenthood funding will likely rankle the more conservative members of the Senate who recently led the unsuccessful charge to defund Planned Parenthood. Many pro-life congressmen and activists are concerned that if GOP leaders don't push for defunding soon, they could squander the most valuable moment in the history of the pro-life movement. Now is the moment when unprecedented public scrutiny is descending upon Planned Parenthood, owing to the horrifically revealing videos released by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP). That scrutiny has produced a wave of public pressure on politicians to defund the abortion provider -- but as with any wave of pressure, it will only last for a limited time.
CMP has spread out the releasing of its videos, and that strategy has kept the issue in the public eye. There may be upward of 10 videos to come. If CMP can sustain the public attention brought upon Planned Parenthood, it will only buy time for congressional action to take place. If congressional investigations also find specific evidence of illegal activity at Planned Parenthood, that would propel the issue further into the news and motivate punitive action against Planned Parenthood.
Senate leaders know how to fight, and they have a knack for making swift action look a lot more difficult than it actually is (see the Senate's action in renewing the Ex-Im Bank). One question ultimately hangs over the Senate and its leaders: Do they care enough about stopping the horrors of Planned Parenthood to actually put up a fight?
Time will tell. Calling your senator can only help.
yes - i live in nc and he is pitiful
And the slaughter goes on and on. The nazis were shabby by these savages.
Trump may be the most conservative candidate that the GOPee have who can be elected.
Well there’s always Juan who needs to spend more time with his wife’s money.
Is Ditch really being run by Elaine Chao?
Senators can be redialed many times, but unless you are giving them money, they won’t be picking up.
The fault isn’t the tactic. The fault is the media. They will always be against you, so man up.
How conservative did Mitch “sound” when he first got into politics and how can we avoid making this mistake again?
I said so at the time. I knew a McConnell leadership would be worse than Harry Reid, as it would be Republicans enacting Obama's radical agenda. I was willing to lose that seat, and take a chance on control of the Senate, if McConnell was the one running the Senate. I truly believe McConnell and Boehner have joined the other side, and they view their role as managing the Republican caucus without actually doing anything Republican voters want. They may be just placeholders, waiting for the hammer to drop when illegals are voting, Texas turns blue, and the country is leftist forever. They will then fade away, get rewarded handsomely, and be heroes of the revolution.
People don't care about Trump's past foibles, switching from Dem party, divorces, etc. They Don't Care! They just want someone to Fight! Anyone who Fights is going to Win! We've totally had it with the beltway.
Give em' Hell Donald!
Funny have you ever seem McConnell and Reid together?
I think they are the same person.
What the left, the feminist, the wicked are doing is offering sacrifices to baal and molach.
It’s no different than what happened in the Old Testament in the age of the wicked Kings of Israel like King ahab and queen jezeeble.
The only thing different is the method.
In the Old Testament under the age of wicked Kings when they worshipped the evil idols and false gods, they would heat up these statues of these evil gods, baal, molach, and place babys on the red hot arms of these idols, false gods, its the same thing as the abortionist and the feminist.
The Phoenician occult came out of baal and molach worship, and that’s where the modern feminist occult came from, the Phoenician occult.
Queen jezeeble was a Phoenician princess, daughter of ethbaal, King of tyre.
Feminism is satanic, demonic in it’s origins.
Abortion serves its purpose to satisfy Lucifer, satan’s Christ for innocent blood, and to summons the spirits the gods of the underworld into our above world, real world reality.
Saint Paul wrote in the book of Ephesians, that ?
We do not war, or rather, wrestle against flesh and blood ( actual humans, or rather, people ) but against principalities, and powers, and forces of darkness.
Demonic spirits, wicked and evil entities that actually have domain and domain over “ certain “ geographical areas like Washington D.C.
False gods of the underworld, evil principalities ( municipalites, powers, rulers of darkness in “ high places “.
You want to know exactly what rules and controls the feminist ?
Just look at what and whom they worship, and what means they worship with, they sacrifice innocent blood to the evil gods of the underworld.
Interestingly, the company who owns Townhall . com, contributed quite a bit of money to Mitch !
They’re tainted.
McConnell is daring Cruz and Paul to publicly oppose him, not just disagree, but to make McConnell a campaign issue. Mitch might not like where this ends up, the republican base is fed up with the establishment elites in the GOP. Donald better quick find a microphone because the senator from Texas will soon have the floor and the senator from KY will chime in against his own to both decry the cowardice of senator McConnell’s surrender to slaughter of the innocents. There is no cover to hide his arrogance, there is no subterfuge in process to excuse his betrayal. Let Mitch the liberal’s bitch be a campaign issue. Let’s separate those principled fighters from the white flag elites.
Nope, nothing will take place unless they can blame Ted Cruz.
The goal will be to blame Ted Cruz for a government shut down and not to federally defund PP.
Yeah, what you said.
Sorry for the typo, I hate these auto checkers.
Not Christ, I meant, thrist.
But, Christ means, anointed one in Greek.
Trump wouLd have shut down the DAMNED GOVERNMENT then taken to twitter and Facebook with his two black ladies screaming about what Planned Parenthood was doing to ALL these black babies!!!!!! He would have won!!!!!
Okay, all you FR anti-abortionists, what is your plan now?
Go out there and buy all the infant/baby dolls and send them to Mitch in individual packages! Send him chocolate made in the image of babies, do something!
Go hide under your desk, Turtle Man...
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