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RAND PAUL PUSHES AHEAD TO DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD, CIRCUMVENT MITCH MCCONNELL
Breitbart ^ | July 24, 2015 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 07/24/2015 4:36:16 PM PDT by z taxman

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is coming under fire from his home state colleague, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) —a GOP presidential candidate—as well, not just from Paul’s 2016 rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

Paul tried to get the floor to stand up and offer an amendment to defund Planned Parenthood and another one to arm servicemen and women on military bases. He intended to offer these measures as amendments to the highway bill that is currently on the Senate floor. Whoever was presiding over the floor refused to recognize Paul to offer his amendments.

Paul has been speaking out on both of these subjects for quite some time, and since the Senate is now taking up what is considered a “must pass” piece of legislation, funding the country’s highway and mass transit systems—a massive bill that spends hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years—it’s an opportunity for senators to get things onto it that can further whatever their agenda might be. Of course, as Cruz has exposed all day Friday, McConnell has used the bill to reauthorize the crony capitalist Export Import Bank. But McConnell is blocking using it to defund Planned Parenthood or to block sanctuary cities or to arm military officers on base.

Senate leaders instead of using that as a vehicle to fight for the unborn and for gun rights to protect our soldiers, instead used a maneuver now Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) made common called “filling the tree” wherein they blocked all other amendments including Paul’s planned amendments.

Sources in the U.S. Senate tell Breitbart News, however, that Paul isn’t taking this lying down.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abortion; plannedparenthood; prolife; randpaul
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To: sopwith

“Cruz and Paul have been doing this right along. And yes its nice to see Trump doing it also”

Well, Cruz has, but let’s not forget that Rand Paul wholeheartedly supported Mitch McConnell in his re-election bid last year when there was a viable primary challenger in KY. He could have at least remained neutral the way Cruz did when Cornyn, the senior senator from TX faced a primary challenger last year.

Paul has far less credibility on these issues after playing ball with the leadership, but it’s nice to see him doing the right things now.


21 posted on 07/24/2015 5:33:51 PM PDT by lquist1
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To: rockrr

“I’ve never been a fan of scorched-earth politics but I’m beginning to believe that it’s an idea whose time has come.”

Oh hell, they haven’t even started the kindling yet. It’s 20 years late. Better late than never, I guess.


22 posted on 07/24/2015 5:36:55 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: lquist1

Bevin turned out to be a democrat butt kisser. I think it was a miscalculation on Rands part thinking he could get a quid pro quo from the likes of McConnell. I think he’s wised up since.


23 posted on 07/24/2015 5:36:56 PM PDT by z taxman
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To: lquist1

Revenge is a dish best served cold.


24 posted on 07/24/2015 5:39:30 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: z taxman
> " If he succeeds, it would of course be a massive rebuke of McConnell’s leadership of the GOP majority in the Senate—and that it’s even come to this is extraordinary considering that McConnell and all Republicans nationwide just last year campaigned on the promise that giving Republicans the GOP majority in the Senate would mean the place would run differently from the way it ran under Reid’s leadership and Democratic control." But as Senator Cruz bravely pointed out this morning, the Senate has been run by McConnell in precisely the same way as Reid. Paul is still a scoundrel to the American people for his covering fraud on the Vitter subpoena that would lead to arrests and incarceration in Congress. But if he stays quiet and fights McConnell successfully offering no quarter, then he will have helped win the war against the Cartel. As for his presidential campaign, it is a joke. It's nothing more than others who are looking for a fattened paycheck. Yes, running for president allows under the rules to open up accounts from which to pay oneself, and to do it repeatedly. That is why so many who will poll less than 1% from now until next year are running for president, because there's money in it. Let's see how much fight there is in the problem boy from Kentucky.
26 posted on 07/24/2015 5:58:17 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: z taxman

So many of us are celebrating watching Planned Parenthood being brought down finally, but we must not forget there are many women out there having had abortions that are watching these videos and most probably hurting inside as to what they did. Prayers need to be offered up for these women.


27 posted on 07/24/2015 6:01:13 PM PDT by DandG13
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To: Jim Robinson

Has MM responded to Cruz yet?

I don’t think he has the guts to defend himself.


28 posted on 07/24/2015 6:02:10 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: z taxman

It’s not going to pass.

But thanks for trying.


29 posted on 07/24/2015 6:33:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: lquist1

“Paul has far less credibility on these issues after playing ball with the leadership, but it’s nice to see him doing the right things now.”

I agree. Rand let himself get coopted by McConnell. I hope today’s happenings indicate he has had a stomachful of McConnell and is now breaking away.


30 posted on 07/24/2015 6:56:28 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: z taxman

So Rand, how’s that deal you made with McConnell last year working out?


31 posted on 07/24/2015 7:23:16 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Yaelle

Ted Cruz has been standing up to Senate leadersship since he came to the Senate in 2012. He wrote a book about a year ago that just came out a few months ago in which he outlines this. Not to take anything away from the Trump, but don’t take anything away from Cruz either. He’s been in this fight a while now.


32 posted on 07/24/2015 7:29:09 PM PDT by Calpublican (Boehner and McConnell are corrupt.)
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To: z taxman

I’m trying real hard not to hate McConnell an Boehner.


33 posted on 07/24/2015 7:30:45 PM PDT by stevio (God, guns, guts.)
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To: lquist1

Well Rand made a corrupt deal with Mitch-—in exchange for support against Bevin, Mitch would help Paul in his presidential campaign. And so of course, Mitch beats Bevin and then Grimes, and so he does not need Rand anymore, and kicks him out of bed. Must suck feeling the sting of betrayal. Welcome to the party, Rand!


34 posted on 07/24/2015 7:41:10 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: z taxman

The way to de-fund it was to leave it out of the budget. If they were serious about de-funding, thats how you do it.

As it is, this sounds like a show-vote that would be simply vetoed by the president. Or am I wrong?


35 posted on 07/24/2015 7:42:40 PM PDT by marron
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To: RKBA Democrat

But how many millionaires have those corrupt governments produced ?


36 posted on 07/24/2015 8:08:41 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: tenger

They think they are coming to the US of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. Just like I thought went I moved to California a couple of decades ago. That California and that US are long gone.


37 posted on 07/24/2015 8:13:17 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Calpublican

Which is why I was (and still am) all Cruz. I know. I just didn’t have a lot of hope that cruz could avoid being Palinized. The libs I talked to wrinkled their faces up at my mentioning him. They considered him a crazy religious fanatic. In fact, while waiting for my son to have his hair cut, I actually picked up the Advocate to see what gay politics looked like today —— far leftist, there, now you don’t have to pick up the magazine, you’re welcome... -— and an article called him “anti-gay Ted Cruz.” Sheesh.


38 posted on 07/24/2015 9:57:17 PM PDT by Yaelle (Trump is the Political Plumber, flushing out the PC sewer. So what if we see a little butt crack?)
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To: justa-hairyape

Not as many as ours has to be sure, but our economy is monstrous as compared to theirs.


39 posted on 07/25/2015 5:20:37 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: lquist1

I knew that would come back a bite Paul. Other then endorse McConnell very early, Paul did nothing to help McConnell in the Ky primary. And when Paul endorsed Mitch, Mitch did not have a primary opponent. As a Senator Paul has been very good, in fact better then Cruz on important votes like TPA and reauthorizing the Patriot Act.


40 posted on 07/25/2015 6:12:31 AM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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