Posted on 07/25/2015 11:11:47 AM PDT by markomalley
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., announced late Friday that he will "use every Senate rule" to force his Senate colleagues on the record after fellow Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., blocked his amendment to defund Planned Parenthood.
If Paul gets enough senators to sign his petition, he can go around McConnell and force a vote.
"I'm prepared to use every Senate rule at my disposal to force my colleagues on record whether they like it or not," Paul wrote Friday night. "Under Senate rules, if enough Senators are willing to stand with me and sign a petition demanding a vote, there will be no stopping you and me."
"The more I learn about Planned Parenthood's racket, aborting unborn children and then selling off their organs, the more my head spins," he wrote. "I'm not about to let Planned Parenthood off the hook. And I'm not about to let politicians and our media sweep this scandal under the rug."
In order for the rope to stay on, one has to have a chin.
Go Ted !
and push mumbles out of his majority seat...
Fuch Mitch B1tch.
Id settle for tarred and feathered, and yes i know what that entails.
I’ve been giving that a lot of thought lately.
Do “they” have something on a lot of the top dogs?
Or, one thought I had, have they and/or their families been threatened?
Maybe they don’t want to lose their heads over all this crap.
And in order for the rope to do any good, one has to have a spine. Sadly...
Better, put him on a fence post.
That’s even better.
Yes, definitely...but that it’s the Senate.
Who is to say? But, being that they are politicians it is easy to assume they’ve been bought.
Maybe Rand Paul can do what other Republican Senators can’t get through.
“Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wanted to offer a motion that would force the Senate to vote on an amendment to defund federal dollars from Planned Parenthood, where officials were recently shown on video discussing the price of fetal body parts.
But no lawmaker would second the Cruz or Lee motions to move their amendments, stopping them in their tracks.”
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For some reason, this Free Republic link says it’s not on Free Republic anymore. The original article is from the Washington Examiner site, by Susan Ferrechio, on 7/26/2015. I’m having trouble opening the Washington Examiner site too.
Kudos to Rand Paul for pushing this issue.
Go around Mitch on everything. He’s a dunce.
His heart is not in it.
The problem is that McConnell is a master of the parliamentary head-fake. In this case, he is trading a 51 vote threshold an amendment to pass, for a 60 vote threshold for cloture on a standalone bill.
Once again, McConnell is manufacturing an empty gesture that allows him to say he voted against Planned Parenthood without actually having changed the status quo.
That's why Paul must succeed in getting this passed as an amendment on a "must have" bill.
-PJ
If you oppose defunding PP, senators...
you support forcing taxpayers to pay for dismembering fully formed babies and selling their organs.
Simple fact.
WOW.... Conservatives have invaded McConnel’s FB page, and it is brutal. Well worth the price of admission.
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