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House Republicans’ CR (Continuing Resolution) Funds Planned Parenthood and All Obamacare
CNS News ^
| September 10, 2014
| Terence P. Jeffrey
Posted on 09/10/2014 1:18:00 PM PDT by Zakeet
The continuing resolution that the House Appropriations Committee introduced yesterday and that the House Republican leadership is preparing to bring up for a vote on the House floor puts no limits on funding Planned Parenthoodthe nations largest abortion provideror any provision of Obamacare, including the regulations that force Christian individuals and organizations to buy or provide health insurance that covers abortion-inducing drugs.
The bill is clean and does not contain highly controversial provisions, says a press release put out by the Appropriations Committee.
We have reached the point where a Continuing Resolution is necessary to keep the government functioning and avoid another shutdown, said Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R.-Ky.). It is a critical piece of legislation, and my Committee has crafted the bill in a responsible, restrained way that should draw wide support in the House and Senate. This bill is free of controversial riders, maintains current levels, and does not seek to change existing federal policies.
The bill would take effect on Oct. 1, the first day of fiscal 2015, and run only through Dec. 11.
That means it is designed to get the members of Congress who vote for it past the November mid-term elections, when all members of the House and a third of the Senate must stand for reelection.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014election; abortion; obamacare; spending; uniparty
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It is important for GOP house leadership to cave in before the election so that people who might vote for the Pubs are not misled into thinking that they might actually stand for cutting spending and against baby-killing!
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:18:00 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory again...
2
posted on
09/10/2014 1:20:16 PM PDT
by
GraceG
(No, My Initials are not A.B.)
To: GraceG
The GOPe
is
Not conservative
and
voting for them
does
not further conservatism
3
posted on
09/10/2014 1:21:09 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
I’m definitely no expert on the issues at head here but are the RHINO’S NUTS?????????????????????????????????????
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:25:13 PM PDT
by
DaveA37
To: Zakeet
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:25:46 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: Zakeet
Let me guess: They have to pass it in order to find out what’s in it...
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:26:18 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: Zakeet
While the nation slides into oblivion, the GOP has decided to sit on its ass and do nothing (again).
Good work boys. :)
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:26:45 PM PDT
by
Tzimisce
To: Zakeet
I made this point before, and I’ll make it again.
If Ted Cruz - or ANY presidential candidate - does not run on the promise that he’ll overturn FUBOCare; I’ll not support him.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:27:47 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: GeronL
What a DISAPPOINTMENT!
Compromisers ALWAYS LOSE !
"Establishment Republicans" lose everytime they're listened to.
They wouldn't care if they DO lose.
If they can't be in power,
they don't want US in power. It's just that simple.
It's WAR!
We will never unify under
"Establishment Republicans" .
"Establishment Republicans" have more in common with the Democrats, than they do with Conservatives.
The weak candidates are
"Establishment Republicans", weak on national security, amnesty for illegals, abortion, and government spending.
"Establishment Republicans" scream "COMPROMISE".
And people who study the Bible know that
COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.
Someone once said [We're]
'Not victims of "the Establishment." ' I disagree.
I ask you again:
Who was it that dumped all those negative adds on Conservative Candidates in the primary?
Who was it that constantly battered each leading Conservative in the primary with an average of three to one negative ads against our real candidates?
Who's money was dumped against the conservative choices?
It WAS Mitt Romney, leader of the
"Establishment Republicans"and it WAS the
"Establishment Republicans" who funded all those negative ads against Conservatives.
So conservatives, the BASE of the Republican Party, WERE
' victims of "the Establishment." '
These
"Establishment Republicans" are being weeded out, one by one, and slowly but surely, the TEA Party is taking over.
"Establishment Republicans" Want to Redefine the Term "Conservative"
"DO CONSERVATIVES WANT TO WIN IN 2012 OR NOT?"
DO
CONSERVATIVES "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" WANT TO WIN IN 2014 OR NOT?
Jack Kerwick wrote an article on May 24, 2011 titled
The Tea Partier versus The Republican and he expressed some important issues that I agree with.
Thus far, the field of GOP presidential contenders, actual and potential, isnt looking too terribly promising.
This, though, isnt meant to suggest that any of the candidates, all things being equal, lack what it takes to insure
that Barack Obama never sees the light of a second term; nor is it the case that I find none of the candidates appealing.
Rather, I simply mean that at this juncture, the party faithful is far from unanimously energized over any of them.
It is true that it was the rapidity and aggressiveness with which President Obama proceeded to impose his perilous designs upon the country
that proved to be the final spark to ignite the Tea Party movement.
But the chain of events that lead to its emergence began long before Obama was elected.
That is, it was actually the disenchantment with the Republican Party under our compassionate conservative president, George W. Bush,
which overcame legions of conservatives that was the initial inspiration that gave rise to the Tea Party.
It is this frustration with the GOPs betrayal of the values that it affirms that accounts for why the overwhelming majority
of those who associate with or otherwise sympathize with the Tea Party movement
refuse to explicitly or formally identify with the Republican Party.
And it is this frustration that informs the Tea Partiers threat to create a third party
in the event that the GOP continues business as usual.
If and when those conservatives and libertarians who compose the bulk of the Tea Party, decided that the Republican establishment
has yet to learn the lessons of 06 and 08, choose to follow through with their promise,
they will invariably be met by Republicans with two distinct but interrelated objections.
First, they will be told that they are utopian, purists foolishly holding out for an ideal candidate.
Second, because virtually all members of the Tea Party would have otherwise voted Republican if not for this new third party, they will be castigated for essentially giving elections away to Democrats.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
No one, as far as I have ever been able to determine, refuses to vote for anyone who isnt an ideal candidate.
Ideal candidates, by definition, dont exist.
This, after all, is what makes them ideal.
This counter-objection alone suffices to expose the argument of the Anti-Purist as so much counterfeit.
But there is another consideration that militates decisively against it.
A Tea Partier who refrains from voting for a Republican candidate who shares few if any of his beliefs
can no more be accused of holding out for an ideal candidate
than can someone who refuses to marry a person with whom he has little to anything in common
be accused of holding out for an ideal spouse.
In other words, the object of the argument against purism is the most glaring of straw men:I will not vote for a thoroughly flawed candidate is one thing;
I will only vote for a perfect candidate is something else entirely.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
as Glenn Beck once correctly noted in an interview with Katie Couric,
had John McCain been elected in 2008, it is not at all improbable that, in the final analysis,
the country would have been worse off than it is under a President Obama.
McCain would have furthered the countrys leftward drift,
but because this movement would have been slower,
and because McCain is a Republican, it is not likely that the apparent awakening that occurred under Obama would have occurred under McCain.
It may be worth it, the Tea Partier can tell Republicans, for the GOP to lose some elections if it means that conservativesand the countrywill ultimately win.
If he didnt know it before, the Tea Partier now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.
Ironically, he can thank the Republican for impressing this so indelibly upon him.
I'm fresh out of
"patience", and I'm not in the mood for
"compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the
RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.
Take a good long look at where
"Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS take us.
The "Establishment Republicans" can GO TO HELL !
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:28:08 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: DaveA37; KC_Lion
probably
The establishment are not 2 different parties, they are one and the same, the Uniparty. We conservatives are a minority even in the GOP.
Whether conservatives continue to vote for the designated loser or establishment squish or start fielding their own conservative candidates is the real question.
When a conservative runs in the GOP primary in many states they now face an uphill battle against their own party. You should remember how a conservative can find themselves abandoned or defunded by their own party. It is not an uncommon occurrence.
In Mass a candidate for State Senate was ignored at the state convention, even though he had paid for a huge sign next to the stage they ‘forgot’ to enter his name into nomination and thus got no primary ballot spot. The conservative candidate for Governor was almost ignored but fought hard. The people running the place tried to keep him off the ballot by deeming him not getting enough delegates to make the ballot but not releasing the totals. They had lied! He did get enough and it came to light after a months long battle, but the damage to his campaign was done.
In MA the GOPe is as lefty as the Democrats. No two ways about it.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:34:10 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Yosemitest
I think so too. I KNOW so. Maybe conservatives need to show the GOPe what happens when they move left. Some of these candidates are as lefty as the Democrats, a few of them even more than the Dems.
Conservatives should not vote for that. In those kinds of places, we need to be forming our own parties and running our own candidates.
I hope any conservative in a place like MA will support people like the independent Scott Lively.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:37:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Zakeet
From an earlier thread...
....Cruz Hosts Late-Night Strategy Session With House Republicans on CR (NO LAME DUCK!!)
Earlier in the evening, the House GOP leadership unveiled a bill to keep the government funded through Dec. 11. And the early review from conservatives attending Cruzs meeting in the Texas Republicans office was that Dec. 11 is too soon.
Instead, members came out of the meeting saying they wanted the CR to fund the government through March 1.
Pushing the next big spending showdown into March, members of the Cruz Caucus said, would give the new 114th Congress, which could include a Republican-controlled Senate, an opportunity to tackle government funding.
A Dec. 11 expiration means Congress will still have to address an omnibus spending package in the lame duck, when, regardless of the election results, Harry Reid of Nevada will still be Senate majority leader.
Another issue members discussed at length was the Export-Import Bank. While many of the members voiced opposition to the credit agency, some said they understood the strategy of eventually decoupling Ex-Im from a spending bill, which the proposed CR does by extending the bank to June 30.
Even Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said the June 30 date may be a good thing....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3202539/posts
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:38:15 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: Zakeet
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:40:31 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Zakeet
With few exceptions the whole government stinks like a 10 day day old rotting body and it seems that we as a Nation will never learn.
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:42:41 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: GraceG
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:44:14 PM PDT
by
Flintlock
(Deport them ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!)
To: GeronL
It's more important for me to TAKE OUT Thad Cochran by voting AGAINST him, than it is for me to keep the Republican seat in the Senate.
I sincerely hope Chris McDaniel wins his court case, so I can vote FOR him in the General Election.
But if he doesn't, I'm voting for whoever has the BEST PERCENTAGES to TAKE OUT "Thad COCKROACH".
That's a promise that I CAN"T WAIT TO KEEP !
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:56:22 PM PDT
by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: mongo141
I have had enough from this bunch of RINOs. I’m voting for the best Tea Party candidate available in the primaries. At least I will be true to myself as a conservative. We may lose but I will not give my vote away to a candidate to whom I don’t respect or trust...
To: Zakeet
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posted on
09/10/2014 1:59:43 PM PDT
by
februus
To: Zakeet
Just remember: pull that Republican lever! We certainly wouldn’t want to give victory to a party that supports abortion providers and Obamacare!
Oh, wait...
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posted on
09/10/2014 2:07:16 PM PDT
by
Cato in PA
(Resist!)
To: Zakeet
Election coming up, and the GOPe is practicing duck, and cover. Meanwhile American’s lose.
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posted on
09/10/2014 2:16:52 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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