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Mitch McConnell: Defunding PP Is 'An Exercise in Futility'
newsmax.com ^ | 11 Sep 2015 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 09/12/2015 3:12:11 PM PDT by Morgana

Linking the defunding of Planned Parenthood to a government funding bill is "an exercise in futility," according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The Kentucky Republican lawmaker, in an interview with Politico Friday, says he'll support instead a plan to fund the government into December with no conditions.

"It's an exercise in futility," McConnell says of the Planned Parenthood defunding effort. "I'm anxious to defund Planned Parenthood" but "the honest answer of that is that's not going to happen until you have a president who has a similar view."

"It's better to be honest with the American people and say, 'That won't get it done.'"

According to Politico, McConnell favors a strategy that will include a short-term funding bill to buy time to negotiate a longer-term spending measure – and separately, a vote this month to federally ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

GOP lawmakers have called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood in the wake of hidden-camera videos showing officials brokering the distribution of fetal tissue to medical research.

But McConnell said either a Democratic minority would block the effort, or President Barack Obama would veto a bill even if it passed the Senate.

"Groups who deeply are concerned about the issue realize this [Planned Parenthood strategy] isn't going to get that done," McConnell said.

"What we are going to do is move to the pain-capable [abortion] bill sometime this month and see how people feel about that," he said referring to a 20-week abortion ban proposal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; fartfacemcconnell; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; kentucky; kimdavis; libertarians; mcsucks; medicalmarijuana; mitch; mitchmcconnell; obamacare; plannedparenthood; prolife; stemexpress; zerocare
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To: Morgana
You as “majority leader” is an exercise in stupidity Turtle Face.
21 posted on 09/12/2015 3:25:39 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Morgana

Vote for defunding anyway.

Vote down the Iran deal anyway.

Keep trying to repeal Obamacare anyway.

Make Obama veto and make Dhimmicraps support his veto — then tie it around their necks and kill off what’s left of their political viability.


22 posted on 09/12/2015 3:25:47 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Morgana

Everything is an exercise in futility with this tired old bastard.


23 posted on 09/12/2015 3:26:27 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: sgtyork

We The People should demand this slime be replaced.


24 posted on 09/12/2015 3:26:35 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: goldstategop

Republicans:

their only principle is to have no principles.

Their only strategy is preemptive surrender.

Their only plan for victory is to tick off their base as much as possible.


25 posted on 09/12/2015 3:26:54 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Morgana

Dammit! Make the Klown veto it!


26 posted on 09/12/2015 3:27:01 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Investors Business Daily writes:

“It is beyond disgraceful that Senate Democrats would prevent a vote on one of the most consequential nuclear weapons agreements in history — and do so after having formally agreed to a tally of every senator and congressman.

“But this is a party of street fighters, doing anything it takes to get power and expand government. Their GOP opponents all too often do battle according to Miss Manners’ rules for hosting an afternoon tea.

“Americans by a significant margin oppose Obama’s nuclear capitulation to Iran. The GOP is in the majority in both houses. Yet the Stupid Party still gets snookered.”


27 posted on 09/12/2015 3:27:29 PM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: FlingWingFlyer

if the situation was reversed and the Democrats held the same numbers the Republicans hold now, I can guarantee they would get the job done. It seems the Republican do not know their job as Senators. Too many cocktail parties with lobbyists. They are “do nothings.”


28 posted on 09/12/2015 3:27:29 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

if the situation was reversed and the Democrats held the same numbers the Republicans hold now, I can guarantee they would get the job done. It seems the Republican do not know their job as Senators. Too many cocktail parties with lobbyists. They are “do nothings.”


29 posted on 09/12/2015 3:27:29 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Morgana

A turtle says “I can’t.”


30 posted on 09/12/2015 3:28:33 PM PDT by Yaelle (Trump would make a Gorbachev tear down a wall.)
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To: Morgana

Supporting the RNC or establishment candidates is also an exercise in futility.


31 posted on 09/12/2015 3:28:35 PM PDT by tips up (When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Morgana
THE EXERCISE IN FUTILITY IS VOTING TO GIVE THE REPUBLICRATS A MAJORITY!
32 posted on 09/12/2015 3:29:04 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: Fhios

Put it backwards.

If it were not funded and the liberals wanted it funded, would they accept Obama saying “listen, i know what you want and I want it too but until we have a congress that agrees it’s just not going to happen”

Of course they wouldn’t.


33 posted on 09/12/2015 3:29:49 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Morgana

DC is like high-school;

The Republicans are like the band geeks, and the Dems are the football letterman-jacket guys.

Our guys fly off to DC and they see all the hangers-on of the Dem party, and all the cheerleaders want to hump them.

Our guys are playing Dungeons and Dragons, hearing all the luscious stories, and pretty soon they start begging, simply to be TOLERATED for a short while, as they sit at the Cool Kid Table for 15 minutes.

THAT is Mitch and Boner —embarassed for the Letterman jacket guys to be reminded that it’s US that they were sent to DC by.

They’re ASHAMED of us and they only want for the DC Establishment to like them, tolerate them.

It’s sad, and it’s sick.


34 posted on 09/12/2015 3:29:59 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Morgana

Then it’s time for McConnell to go or a real Conservative Party emerges.


35 posted on 09/12/2015 3:30:14 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: TBP

The most obvious reason why they don’t have those votes is their backers/handlers/lobbyists don’t want want them to.


36 posted on 09/12/2015 3:32:30 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: Morgana

A turtle crossing a road is futile too. But at least they try.


37 posted on 09/12/2015 3:36:53 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Obama's Iran nuclear deal - The Devil is in the details.)
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To: Morgana

What an idiot. Doesn’t he realize that he could have it both ways. Continue funding PP, which he apparently favors, and forcing omuzzie to veto it which would at least look like he wants to follow the wishes of his constituents.

Or is he really so lazy that he doesn’t even want to deal with the “paperwork” involved? Some leader. Thanks Kentucky.


38 posted on 09/12/2015 3:38:05 PM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: Morgana

Mitch McConnell is An Exercise in Futility


39 posted on 09/12/2015 3:44:08 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Morgana

Everyone here is screaming about ‘Principles”. Well I would point out the following.

For the last few elections, several of us tried futile to get Freepers and the greater right wing to stand on principles. And we were told ny a fair number of Freepers that principle was the problem, called Kamakazi Conservatives and many, many far less flattering names.

Further, I would point out that we tried futilely to get people to NOT re-elect/support Bhoner and mitch and were told the above amidst demands for pragmatism.

Folks, the enemy isn’t Mitch. It’s your fellow ‘pragmatists’. And until you join those of us in fighting for what we believe in, actively, they will ensure their pragmatic lesser evils continue to fund the killing of children, the destruction of marriage and the nuclear arming of more muslim states. The enemy is within.

It’s that simple. If you cannot do that much, don’t expect this to change.


40 posted on 09/12/2015 3:47:31 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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