Posted on 08/31/2015 3:26:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Let each state defund them...one by one...
Ted Cruz has found a moral issue here and he has the courage to take some risks that others are afraid to take.
Nice logic: Others won’t stand on principle, so Cruz shouldn’t either.
Welcome to the GOP.
Makes Ted Cruz twice the man of the combined cajoles of the entire wimp party of surrender republicans.
Whether his gambit is “successful” or not, it is worth doing.
Another article aimed not at Cruz but those two supposed leaders in Boner and McDummy. Don’t worry Mr. Scher they got the message.
Concern troll.
Bill Scher is executive editor of LiberalOasis...
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Backfire on Boner and McConnell.
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NEWS FLASH: NOBODY outside of J street gives a tinker’s damn about a (12%) gummint shutdown!!
NOBODY!
As an issue: faageddabaat it.
NOBODY loves the abortion industry.
NOBODY!!
ESPECIALLY with a few more (ugh!) PICTURES.
Now, embrace it, and continue to march.
So, he is supposed to tell himself the right thing to do is “unfund” Planned Parenthood, but I might upset our leaders and they would think badly of me, so we as a people will continue to pay for aborting babies and selling them like nuts and bolts off a car. I see another govn. shutdown and all because Cruz has a rock solid core of Christianity. How many will join him? Cruz is my senator and so is John Cornyn and Cornyn will not stand by Cruz. A pox on Cornyn.
“will backfire”
So it will result in more abortions?
According to RCP, the political calculus is evidently the sole indicator of the success of a “strategy”.
This is a nation ripe for destruction. God has had enormous patience with us, but if we don't come back to him soon, this country is doomed.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) thinks Republican leaders are bluffing when they say they want to defund Planned Parenthood, so he is enlisting Christian pastors across the nation to help mobilize voters to force his colleagues' hands and threaten a government shutdown.
Cruz implored more than a thousand pastors and religious leaders on Tuesday to "preach from the pulpit" against Planned Parenthood and rally public support for an amendment defunding the family provider in the must-pass federal budget bill in November. If Congress attaches the defunding amendment to the budget instead of holding a vote on the standalone bill, it cannot keep funding Planned Parenthood without shutting down the whole federal government.
"Here is the challenge," the presidential hopeful explained on the national conference call. "The leadership of both parties, both the Democrats and Republicans, want an empty show vote.... They want a vote on Planned Parenthood that has no teeth or no consequence, which allows Republicans to vote for defunding, Democrats to vote for continuing funding, and nothing to change. ...But the leadership of both parties have publicly said they do not want the vote tied to any legislation that must pass."
Liberals didn’t conquer the country on same-sex marriage by shying away from the fight. They fought for it again and again and again and were not afraid to lose a few battles on the way to figuring out what it would take for them to win.
We have to do the same if we want to win on the social issues. Shrinking back into the shadows and not talking about the issue publically is a recipe for failure.
We can’t build a wall.
We can’t defund Planned Parenthood
What a bunch of complete losers the GOP is.
And they wonder why no one wants to follow their defeatist lead.
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