Posted on 08/03/2015 3:02:17 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
The vote to DEFUND Planned Parenthood FAILS in the Senate!
True.
One would assume you would bring the bill up when you have the votes, not ring it up and then don’t have the votes and look stupid.
So, you would go on record with a ‘NO’ just so it could be brought up again? I guess so huh..
This issue shouldn’t be a matter of polls, posturing or playing games. The dumb basted SHOULD have responded to this evil and defunded. No BS just do it. Screw him and all who support this evil.
Why is free republic the source?
At least they are on record. Now let them answer for it.
Many here told us the they were the “lessor evil”.
I do not know what you mean by this. In today’s vote, McConnell voted for the defunding side i.e. to stop debate.
Here are the details of the vote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-to-launch-first-strike-targeting-planned-parenthood-funding/2015/08/03/1d904e50-39fc-11e5-8e98-115a3cf7d7ae_story.html
All the RATS except for Donnelly (RAT-PA) and Manchin(RAT-WVa) voted to fund Planned Parenthood and all the Pubbies except for Kirk (RINO-IL) voted to defund.
It is true that McConnell knew this was going to happen when he stopped the adding of the defunding as an amendment to the Highway Bill this past weekend so the vote today was kabuki theater. But I think we need to be accurate around here.
At least it wasn’t Cecil the lion that it was done to. It was only human babies, so what is the objection?
VINDICATED!
Not that "reconsideration of cloture" has not happened before, it has. But a failed cloture motion means the bill or amendment is still alive, with debate continuing.
I recall subjects that obtained half a dozen cloture motions.
He had to so he can bring it back up.
It’s a parliamentary maneuver.
Don’t be ignorant people!
During the last election, you spoke strongly that we needed to vote for McConnell... to the point of insulting the intelligence of any who disagreed.
Care to recap your arguments a year later and test them against reality?
Results like this puts it out in the public eye as to who controls Mitch McConnell.
Voting "no" on a cloture motion means debate continues without limit. Voting "yes" on cloture means debate is limited, then vote on the issue.
The fact that the senate uses a failed cloture motion to STOP debate is an artifact of the senate's dysfunction. See some of Bush's judicial nominees, subjected to as many as 6 cloture motions. Senate voted "no" on cloture, Frist kept the senate on the topic of the nominee, and after a day or so filed another cloture motion.
I am smarter that that. I am smrt enough to know that “tactical” or not, whatever the excuse is, this republican party has no desire to “save” or honor the people they are supposed to serve.
From day 1, the first day Obama walked outside the Constitution, they should have went for impeachment.
Everything after that has been pure BS. The GOP will never be honorable until it is purged.
Not necessary with cloture. There is no limit to the number of times a cloture motion can be filed on any debateable subject.
Not unheard of with cloture, but "weird," to say the least.
Well, to be totally accurate, I said the Cochran race in Mississippi might be one worth losing - but with that in mind, we needed the Kentucky seat to remove Harry Reid. It was never about McConnell, it was always about Reid.
Now I probably hate McConnell more than any single member of either house...he recently bumped Boehner off that perch for me....but if we are to ever gain a conservative Republican majority in congress, we don’t need a whole lot of Democrat incumbents in the way.
Now, let’s also admit that McConnell is more exposed now than he was even just back in 2014. That’s why Cruz called him out so explicitly this week.....which Cruz would not have done prior to 2014. History is fluid, it isn’t static.
Is there anything -- anything -- the GOPEs and RINOs who control the Republican Party can do that would convince conservatives not to "vote for the lesser of two evils"? You would think failing to end compulsory taxpayer support of a baby slaughtering company would be it ... but maybe that's still not enough.
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