"We just don't have the votes to get the outcome that we'd like"
Posted on 09/01/2015 4:55:10 PM PDT by markomalley
Attempts by Congress to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding are destined to fail as long as President Obama is in office, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said.
"We just don't have the votes to get the outcome that we'd like," McConnell said in an interview taped Monday with WYMT-TV, which serves eastern Kentucky. "I would remind all of your viewers, the way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it, and the president has to sign it. The president's made it very clear he's not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood so that's another issue that awaits a new president hopefully with a different point of view."
McConnell's comments put him at odds with hard-line members of his own party who are pushing to use the approaching Oct. 1 deadline for funding the federal government as leverage to force Obama and congressional Democrats to defund Planned Parenthood. A series of undercover videos released over the course of the summer has whipped up conservative outrage over the group's practices regarding the harvesting of fetal tissue for research. While federal money is already banned from being spent directly on abortions, Planned Parenthood opponents say Medicaid reimbursements and other federal grants indirectly support the group.
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Is he still being strategic?
Worthless waste of air.
WHY NOT?
Go nuclear....hole.
“That’s because we’re power crazed bitches of Obama”
what an incompetent.
Sounds like McConnell’s heart and brains were aborted a long time ago.
0bama’s B*TCH, MITCH.
Trying to give in a political way, to Sen. Cruz, the “Bronx salute.”
Why the hell not?? And why can’t we deport 12 million illegal aliens??
no, McConnell. this congress won’t defund killing babies because you you and Mr. Boner
not because of Obama
Congress has the power of the purse, not Obama
you are a complete loser, however
sorry to have to say
start doing your job or move aside, please
Too busy covering up the Benghazi murders?
Yes.
Too busy advancing the IRS atrocity against conservatives?
Yes.
The GOP is hated because they lied, and when given
power, submitted to treason, fraud, obstruction of justice,
and scheming to keep THEMSELVES EXEMPT.
He’s not up for re-election but many are. Let’s get ‘em, better to have a Democrat and know what they stand for than these traitors.
Speaking of a veto, Congress has the power to override vetos.
So much for the power of the purse.
Aw he speaks for the HOUSE Too....
What does he KNOW that We do not know?..
Hmmm FBI Black ops against Congress members.?.
Oh sorry.. THE OBAMA FBI...... may be a different FBI than known before...
McConnell is right, THIS Congress, with him and Boner in charge, can’t do squat.
There are at least 200 Representatives and 30 Senators that need to be Cantorized.
Attempts by Congress to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding are destined to fail as long as McTurtle is Senate Majority Leader and Boner is Speaker.
I don’t like this, but it’s true. Obama would veto anything, and McConnell is too gutless to articulate the conservative case against mass murder of unborn babies (why would that be hard???). We have to wait until we have either a real president or conservative congressional leaders.
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