Posted on 10/01/2015 8:32:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Congress had grappled with shutdown drama. On October 1, the government would have run out of money. Last time, the government was shut down, it was a sloppy attempt to gut Obamacare. It was done with the full knowledge that a) Obama would never eviscerate his signature domestic achievement (ever) and b) the Republicans never had the votes to be successful. Even with public opinion siding with the GOP over the various mandates within the health care law, Obama won. The government was reopened–and Obamacare remains the law of the land.
With the current squabble over Planned Parenthood, the numbers aren’t on our side. Yes, the Center for Medical Progress conducted a thorough and extensive undercover operation that allegedly shows the non-profit engaging in illegal trafficking of human body parts from aborted babies, yet Planned Parenthood enjoys health favorability ratings. Moreover, not many Americans have heard, or even watched, about the CMP investigation.
According to a new Quinnipiac poll, 69 percent of Americans do not want the government shut down over the debate about defunding Planned Parenthood. Another 52 percent oppose cutting off funding to the non-profit:
American voters oppose 69 – 23 percent, including 56 – 36 percent among Republicans, shutting down the federal government in the dispute over funding Planned Parenthood, according to a Quinnipiac University National poll released today.
By a smaller 52 – 41 percent, voters oppose cutting off federal funding to Planned Parenthood, the independent Quinnipiac University Poll finds. There is a large gender gap as men support a fund cutoff 49 – 44 percent, while women oppose the cutoff 60 – 34 percent. Opposition to the cutoff is 82 – 12 percent among Democrats and 56 – 37 percent among independent voters. Republicans support the cutoff 71 – 25 percent.
The Senate has passed a clean spending bill to avoid a shutdown. Procedural “martial law” was invoked in the House to speed up the process regarding approving the spending bill. Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and outgoing Speaker of the House John Boehner have made their intentions known to not shut the government down. Republicans may have Congress, but they don’t have the votes to defund Planned Parenthood. Obama will veto, and this time he definitely has the votes to sustain it.
As Guy wrote previously, there is no debate about birth control. The vast majority of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents think it’s morally acceptable to use birth control. This isn’t about curtailing women’s health, reducing breast exams, or referrals for mammograms. As Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards noted in yesterday’s hearing, not a single PP clinic has a mammogram machine. This is about the alleged butchering of babies for their organs. Of course, the largest abortion provider shouldn’t be receiving fungible federal dollars, but there doesn’t seem to be a feasible avenue to victory on this one. That’s why the National Right To Life would rather keep the government open, and wait until we have a pro-life president to deal with the issue of federal funding.
A Townhall/Hot Air poll also found that 64 percent don’t want the government to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
UPDATE: Shutdown averted as the House passes two-month spending bill. We get to revisit this in December.
The country has lost it’s moral compass and it’s ability to be outraged...
“On October 1, the government would have run out of money”
The government ran out of money a long time ago.
I’m curious what percentage of Americans actually know the truth about Planned Parenthood.
What a scumbag.
They still should shut it down over commie care.
Run it though with one of those 50% majority votes for spending measures - the same way commie care was passed.
When O vetoes, kick back and let the shutdown actually occur, except this time, let the dems cave first.
Plus conservatives own almost NO major media so like the article said, the majority of people haven’t even seen or heard about the video. Nor do they know that NO PP clinics have mammograms. I didn’t know that until this article.
It’s amazing we win any elections with almost the entire press against us.
The MSM froze this story from day one. No surprise here.
The Media. The Media. The Media.
Topple the Associated Press and things will change. Until then, bitching about Obama, Congress, Boehner, etc., is a waste of time.
Middle America’s worldview is that of the AP. Replace the AP.
Who did they ask, because they didn’t ask me, I’d of said oh hell yeah shut er down.
This article is a hit piece because everyone has been told that if PP doesn’t get funding (a business, nothing to do with government except giving it money from our tax dollars) obuma would veto it and shut down the government....
I for one, would love to call his hand on this...and if he did shut down the government, I would make darn sure that everyone around the world would know about it!!!
The simple fact that selling aborted fetuses is illegal doesn’t even prompt any prosecutions....nothing is illegal apparently when you are shuffling the trillions around and are an exempted from law as these C__t’s think they are. Souless animals....THIS IS WHY I pay NO taxes anywhere except for point of sale IF I even purchase from a store....I truly despise these F’kin animals in washington.
I am still trying to figure out why Obama hasn’t demanded more than just the funding of the sale of murdered baby body parts!
Obama should threaten to shut the government down if congress doens’t pass a law forcing Trump to personally drive buses of illegal across the border. Or how about 100 billion being transfered to the Hillary for president campaign or he shuts the government down?
Why not? what’s to stop him? The RINO’s have already said they wont shut the government down no matter what, so why not just start asking for bat shit crazy stuff ?
The media does not want a shutdown, After the 2013 shutdown the Republicans increased their majority in the house, took over the senate and substantially increased their representation in state and local governments. Why should the current leaders want to do it again?
Either Trump takes over and purges the GOPe, the military, and the bureaucracy and rights this ship-of-fools or i “shut-down the government” in my own way,
I will not pledge allegiance to the flag of a country that smokes dope and elects Marxists all the while it condones a Holocaust of tens of thousands of defenseless babies within its borders.
This is not America, it is instead well on its way to becoming a degenerate, Neo-Marxist/Fascist state and i refuse to be a part of it. I will pray for such a disgraceful nation’s destruction.
“Down with the Eagle and up with the Cross.” - “The Confederate Battle Cry of Freedom”
I don’t believe this.
How was the question asked? And when they tell us that...
I still will not believe this.
This country is pro-life.
When the government “shuts down”, nothing really shuts down. So saying people don’t want a shutdown when nothing really shuts down is just dimwitted.
They are turning government into a talisman, into a cargo cult. Aztecs had to sacrifice virgins to keep the sun coming up. Americans slaughter babies and don’t dare stop lest the White House tour guides be furloughed with back pay.
My millennial daughter, who consumes nearly all of her news via social media, not only had not seen the videos, she DID NOT EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A STORY until I told her.
Joseph Goebbels got nothing on Facebook and Yahoo.
It’s time to stand on principle.
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