Posted on 09/10/2015 7:55:14 PM PDT by markomalley
The No. 2 Senate Republican instantly dismissed the fresh shutdown threat from members of the House Freedom Caucus, who declared they wouldn’t vote for any spending bill keeping the government open if it funds Planned Parenthood.
“We’re not going to engage in a shutdown scenario,” said Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. “That will set the pro-life movement back, not advance it. We’ve got better ideas to actually advance the pro-life agenda.”
President Barack Obama has threatened to veto any bill that eliminates funding for Planned Parenthood. Republicans have been seeking to defund the group for years, but many have dug in after the release of a series of videos showing senior Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of body parts from aborted fetuses.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has also preemptively waved the white flag on defunding Planned Parenthood, saying it’s an issue for the 2016 presidential race.
That hasn’t sat well with some conservative Republicans, with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and a number of other presidential candidates questioning why the GOP would send Obama a bill keeping the $500 million a year in federal funding in place.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Congress has a duty to decide how money should be spent and can’t see how Obama would be able to say Republicans were shutting down the government when they were offering to fund all of it except for Planned Parenthood.
“There is no reason whatsoever we should fund Planned Parenthood,” he said. “If you acquiesce and acknowledge the president is correct then Congress has no power whatsoever over the purse. … I just don’t see how that’s a losing issue. I think the president would look awful. He’s going to veto the Defense bill? He’s going to veto all these other bills? …We don’t need to be hiding under the table.”
Without the votes of the Freedom Caucus, Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, would need Democratic votes to send the Senate a bill keeping the government open that Obama would sign. That’s not a particularly new development; pretty much every major budget deal since Republicans took back the House has required the votes of at least some of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s flock.
This sorry son of a bitch is finished in Texas. Abbott will wipe his butt off the map. He is a BUSHIE and he is GONE!!
This is the true platform of the GOP.
Such as, John? Such as?
Can’t shut the government DOWN, unless you shut down all the States..
The federal government is a paper government..
And that is why people are rallying around Trump. In one word, “guts”
So Cornyn wants to keep on funding Planned Parenthood. Good luck with that, Johnny.
Mark Levin referred to this as the inside/outside game Repubs play to make it seem as tho they are really trying to defeat obama when they really aprove of obama
Instead of plotting a plan to win on this issue, a win that is absolutely possible, they are busy plotting how they will destroy Republicans who are trying to be true to their constituents. Could someone tell me why we are wasting money on Congress, if all they are is a rubber stamp for the president. We don’t need all those losers, and their grifter staff, just to give Obama everything he wants.
Id put the ball in his court so quick even the MSM couldn't defend that!!!...
For one thing, stop with the omnibus bills. Pass a defense bill. Pass a farm bill. Pass a health and welfare bill.
One by one.
Odd, I vote for people that intend to shut the whole god damned thing down.
I sat out the Cornyn and George P. races in 2014, but hardly anyone else did. People in TX like a Cornball and a Bush.
Who are those people?
The only people who seem willing to shut the government down are on the Democrat side of the aisle.
They don’t seem to care about it at all, don’t care about filibustering either.
Shutting the government down is akin to placing a cruciix on Dracula’s forehead to the GOP, however.
I bet you he would shut it down over one cent.
The government is shutdown as soon as the media says it’s shutdown.
And even though hit is non-essential personnel only, it’s a 100.00% complete shutdown.
Even the debt payments are made, debt payments are not made.
And even though a government shutdown has never cost the GOP much of anything, it costs them everything.
Even just mentioning it threatens their very existence.
Yes, that is exactly right.
I think people have had it with the Weenie Party.
Spineless weasels. All options should be on the table.
Make your calls folks.....
Why are they so afraid that Obama will veto something?
Force the foreigner to sign his name to things. Force him to use the veto. Then beat him black and blue with it!
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