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Mitch McConnell commits to abortion ban vote
politico.com ^ | 6/19/15 | By Burgess Everett

Posted on 06/26/2015 10:53:46 AM PDT by Morgana

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell guaranteed a vote on a bill imposing a federal ban on abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, telling a conservative crowd in Washington that a vote on the divisive legislation would be “good news for our entire country.”

Though the bill passed the House earlier this year after a row over rape-reporting requirements in the legislation, the Senate’s version from Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is a long-shot to pass the Senate’s 60-vote threshold. Several moderate Republicans like Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine are likely to oppose the legislation, and only a handful of centrist Democrats would back McConnell.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: abortion; mitchmcconnell; prolife
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Remember what I said when he won. Feet to the fire.
1 posted on 06/26/2015 10:53:46 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Mitch is the screen door of the Congressional Submarine.


2 posted on 06/26/2015 10:55:54 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Morgana

He’ll cave in at the last minute.

He is a total disappointment


3 posted on 06/26/2015 10:56:30 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Morgana

Rope-a-Dope!


4 posted on 06/26/2015 10:56:46 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Morgana

Big Deal. Supereme Beings will just negate.


5 posted on 06/26/2015 10:57:13 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Morgana

How transparent can one liberal be? TODAY he say this. Today.


6 posted on 06/26/2015 10:57:32 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: broken_arrow1

It’s over. Congress means nothing.


7 posted on 06/26/2015 10:58:05 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Morgana

Question: How will he vote?


8 posted on 06/26/2015 10:59:34 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: Morgana

If you believe anything he says, you are fooling yourself...


9 posted on 06/26/2015 11:00:20 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: PATRIOT1876

He won’t have to cave. He’ll be allowed by Obama to pass this and then Obama will veto it. These people spent their entire lives scheming to get there and they will scheme away every waking hour to stay there.

In the end, he’ll feign a ‘good fight’ and depend on his constituents picking the lesser of two evils while he simultaneously crushes any real conservative dissent. It’s what they do. IIRC, his ticket is punched until 2018. What him worry?


10 posted on 06/26/2015 11:00:23 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Morgana

Mitch is in “some closet”.... and I really do not want to know whats going on in there..

Once known cannot be un-known..


11 posted on 06/26/2015 11:00:47 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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It’s over. Congress means nothing.

Precisely what McConnell and Boehner think -- much less what they do -- is meaningless.

12 posted on 06/26/2015 11:01:03 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: Morgana

Has Obama told Boehner yet how to vote on this? Once Mitch is told how to vote maybe he’ll pass on the order to Boehner.

Doing anything else would be racist, or something...


13 posted on 06/26/2015 11:01:11 AM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: Morgana

This is the scrap he throws to conservatives after gutting the US Constitution on every other issue.


14 posted on 06/26/2015 11:01:19 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: glennaro

I wouldn’t say meaningless. Far from it. What they do is treachery and they have become very adept at it.


15 posted on 06/26/2015 11:02:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Morgana

Sure, Mitch. Just like you overturned 0bamacare. Please, just shut up and go away.


16 posted on 06/26/2015 11:03:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: PATRIOT1876

No, he’s faking. They all fake. A “cave-in” means he believed in it in the first place.

But McConnell was a liberal RINO way back in the Reagan days. Nothing but a career politician.


17 posted on 06/26/2015 11:03:24 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Morgana

Yup, just like committing to the Obamacare repeal.


18 posted on 06/26/2015 11:03:45 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Morgana
Useless.

Nothing.

Dead.

19 posted on 06/26/2015 11:03:48 AM PDT by Pietro
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* What him worry? *

I really wish that we had Alfred E Newman instead of Mitch as a Senator!

...he couldn’t do any worse


20 posted on 06/26/2015 11:04:11 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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