Posted on 08/04/2021 4:38:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
Seventeen Senate Republicans, 15 of whom describe themselves as pro-life, voted to advance what the Democrats described as a procedural vote on the infrastructure bill. But this bill ultimately could lead to directing billions in tax dollars toward abortion. It could also create a Medicaid-like health care system which lacks the popular and life-saving provisions of the Hyde Amendment.
The bill – which needed Republican support to proceed – allows for $1.2 trillion in spending and parts remain unwritten. While the bill is unlikely to address the issue of abortion directly, repeated statements from leading Democrats make it clear that this bill inextricably linked to a $4-6 trillion partisan reconciliation bill. And that bill from all indications will include billions in abortion spending and subsidies.
The reasons given by these 17 Senators for voting to advance the infrastructure bill range from support for pork barrel projects within their state to a misguided belief their vote returns the Nation’s Capital to some form of bipartisanship.
But the Democrats who have tied passage of the infrastructure bill to a pro-abortion reconciliation bill are not on the fringe of the party – they are its very leadership. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has vowed to hold the infrastructure bill hostage unless she gets her $4-6 trillion reconciliation package. Her threats are being backed by Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who said she would take down the infrastructure bill if the larger partisan bill wasn’t passed first.
If the Republican Gang of 17 wasn’t paying attention to the House they just need to look to their colleagues in the Senate. Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders (D-VT) made it clearto his fellow Democrats they better stay in line and support both pieces of legislation - despite neither being actually written yet! West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin said the two bills are inseparable telling supporters, “I would say if the bipartisan infrastructure deal falls apart, everything falls apart.”
Even at the White House President Joe Biden stated over a month ago that “If this (bipartisan deal) is the only thing that comes to me, I’m not signing it.”
So what are these 17 Senators voting for when they advanced the infrastructure bill? Speaker Pelosi, among others, has made it clear health care will ultimately be addressed in the reconciliation bill, and the current Democratic Party’s definition of health care includes taxpayer funding of abortion. One goal of the Democrats that could be a part of the next reconciliation bill is to create a public option on the Obamacare exchanges, something President Biden has promised will cover abortion, along with codifying and further expanding the Obamacare premium tax credit.
But an even more disturbing Democratic scheme related to the infrastructure package comes from Senator Raphael Warnock (D-Ga) who has introduced legislation that would create a parallel Medicaid program, financed through direct appropriations of federal funds. This bill would bypass pro-life protections in current federal as well as state law, to provide the equivalent of Medicaid coverage for states that have declined expanding Medicaid. This scheme would directly fund abortions on demand without copays or premiums - and could pass in theory with 50 votes.
None of this scheming should surprise the Republican Gang of 17. Pro-life Americans deserve to know what these Senators were thinking when they voted to advance a bill which has very real potential to funnel billions in tax dollars towards paying for abortions.
The names of the RINOscum Gang of 17?!?
The RINOs are emboldened in large part because Trump is going to GOTV for them in 2022 regardless of what they do.
Anyone remember that recorded phone call to Planned Parenthood where the “donor” asked if his donation could be specifically provided to black women only aborting black babies and they said yes.
That’s evil right there.
These morons are worried about “process” and “bipartisanship”? The left threw all that good stuff out the window when Trummp was elected in 2016.
Like they even care...
RINOs don’t give a darn about abortion. They just use it to reel in the conservative vote.
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Todd Young of Indiana
What else should we expect? They are all progressives playing kabuki theater.
The voters in these states who elected those RINOvermin should hang their heads in shame.
Young is up in ‘22. Who’s going to take him out? We’ll end up supporting him out of fear of being minority. Nip it in the bud.
Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Susan Collins of Maine
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska
Rob Portman of Ohio
Jim Risch of Idaho
Mitt Romney of Utah
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Todd Young of Indiana
Yep... assistant democrats all.
They are too stupid
Remember election day folk it’s a cure purge and replace.
*Remember election day folk it’s a cure purge and replace.*
Primaries start in March. The key dates are the filing deadlines.
Examples: Indiana Feb. 4. Primary May 3(Braun).
Idaho March 11. Primary May 19(Crapo).
SD March 29. Primary June 7(Thune).
ND April 11. Primary June 14(Hoeven).
OK April 15. Primary June 28(Lankford).
Alaska June 1. Primary Aug. 16(Guess who?)
All listed above are past their sell-by date. Others will take themselves out. The movement starts in January with Trump issuing marching orders but only after he quietly ‘asks’ those above to quit. The asking should be done just before Christmas. Targeted families can ‘discuss’ the subject.
Correction-Braun is up in ‘24. My bad.
If the GOP had 49 Senators, 49 of them would vote to end abortion.
If the GOP had all 100 Senators, 49 of them would vote to end abortion.
You guys really have to stop rooting for them. America will not be free until the GOP is destroyed.
Copy this list with thanks to Freeper ScottinVA...look and see who funds these Senators...PP and their Baby Parts Industry for starters?
Primaries start in March
Purge and replace date be there.
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