GOP: Planned Parenthood fight to go on

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Republicans are divided over whether they should use this fall’s government funding bill to attack Planned Parenthood — and risk a high-stakes shutdown fight — after Senate Democrats blocked a standalone bill to defund the organization on Monday evening.

On one side is presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who’s pushing Republicans to do everything within their power to strip the organization of federal support after Monday’s bill failed to clear a filibuster, 53-46. But a group of veteran Republican legislators is urging a more cautious approach, and reminding GOP colleagues that just two years ago their fight to defund Obamacare via a government funding bill produced a disastrous shutdown without making a dent on the Affordable Care Act.

And yet some feel the fight is inevitable.

“This almost certainly becomes part of any final decision about how to move forward on funding,” said Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri, a member of GOP leadership. “There will be a larger discussion on this.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/planned-parenthood-defund-fight-government-shutdown-funding-bill-120951.html#ixzz3hoZdxvNK

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Let's review that GOP post-mortem from 2012, shall we?

it is important to note that 40 percent of female voters are single and that Obama won single women by a whopping 36 percent.

There is growing unrest within the community of Republican women frustrated by the Party’s negative image among women

When it comes to social issues, the Party must in fact and deed be inclusive and welcoming. If we are not, we will limit our ability to attract young people and others, including many women, who agree with us on some but not all issues.

Keep up the good work!

[Javaman]

1. it's the gop's new bengazi.

they can't go after real issues so they have to make things up from whole clothe to convince their mouth breathing followers that the world is going to end for one reason or another.

[LynneSin]

2. Of course they will continute to fight Planned Parenthood - it's an easy way for them to raise funds

They know that Planned Parenthood is a safe battle because it has no impact on their rich donors, who simply pay a doctor cash to fix their pregnancy 'mistakes'. And it helps the GOP to raise oodles of cash from the religious fundies who assume that the only people who use planned parenthood are the 'whores' out there who want to fuck without reason and let tax dollars pay for their abortions. Of course these idiots have no clue that's just a giant size lie being fed to them from the GOP since that is hardly Planned Parenthood's mission.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Maybe it is long past the time to show the idiots clearly that the GOP is purposely lying to them?

[PearliePoo2]

10. ^^This^^

yup..nutshell.

[lark]

3. Craz seems totally obsessed with shutting down the government.

Any excuse will do. Wonder why he's trying so hard to destroy the economy? Did he place a lot of stock bets on goverment contracts underperforming (don't know the stock market, so probably not using the right words)? There's something else going on here folks. He may be crazy, but he's definitely not stupid.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. I Want To Believe, BUT

I want to believe, but where the @&$#% were these voters two years ago? Too many of the people who would suffer the worst under a Republican Dubya-era style Trifecta treat elections like an American Idol contest.

Maybe it's because I'm becoming an embittered old fart, but I am willing to vote for a wart-ridden frog-faced cross-eyed wretch with a voice like nails dragged across a blackboard who will work for my interests over a young, handsome, telegenic tenor bound hand and foot to the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and the Club For Growth.

I fear my attitude is that of an ever-shrinking minority these days; the callow, the thoughtless, and the lazy prefer to vote for the pretty faces regardless of what can be seen beneath the masks.

[Fred Sanders]

5. Please proceed with the Big Lie, GOP..the debunking is underway and the vile and vicious propaganda will be exposed.

[thesquanderer]

6. It's the GOP's favorite kind of issue

It's a policy fight they don't even want to win... its better purpose is to be able to keep using it to gin up support/contributors within their base.

[cosmicone]

7. In chasing the 24% (and declining)

they will be pissing off 76% (and increasing)

If I were running the republican party, I'd give up all homophobic, misogynist and xenophobic policies, say mea culpa and pivot to a more fiscally conservative stance.

Social issues are losers for them yet they keep coddling the very issues that will make power illusory to them.

[Roland99]

9. YAWI - Yet Another Wedge Issue

*sigh*

[Angry Dragon]

11. I wonder how many of the good gop have seen the whole video

I think it is imperative that all members of congress watch the whole video without any cuts
they should demand to see the whole thing before they cast any more votes

[PatrynXX]

12. Republicans use the abortion issue

to gain votes thats it. I have serious doubt that they care much about the issue and are more pro abortion (China types) than they let on.

[cstanleytech]

13. Its pure distraction imo because the GOP cannot run on anything else because they have failed the

country time and time again in multiple areas such as the economy, heath care, Iran, Iraq and pretty much everything so they are reduced to falling back to the old opposition of abortion in the hopes that it will rally their base.

[Simeon Salus]

14. They pulled the same BS on ACORN

Totally invented and totally picked up by the vast right wing conspiracy as fact.

This is a machine designed to take apart American Democracy. It's not a bug, it's the whole point of what they're doing.

Coordinated, just like Senator Warren said.