Posted on 08/27/2015 4:12:34 PM PDT by Isara
... Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says he plans to launch a grassroots campaign that will defund Planned Parenthood in all 50 states and prosecute all criminal violations by the nation’s largest abortion provider.
Cruz invited thousands of evangelical pastors from across the country to participate in a conference call Tuesday night, and let them know he would do his best to ensure the government is not funded if funding includes taxpayer monies for Planned Parenthood.
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“We can expect President Obama and many of the congressional Democrats to cry loudly that if Congress uses its authority, Congress will be quote ‘shutting down the government,’” Cruz said. “That, of course, is nonsense.”
Cruz was a co-sponsor of the Senate bill to defund Planned Parenthood earlier in August, but the vote for cloture was 53-46, which fell well shy of the 60 votes needed to end debate and proceed to a vote.
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“There’s no education in the second kick of the mule,” McConnell said, referring to an attempt by Cruz and other conservatives to block the funding for ObamaCare. “We’ve been down this path before.”
Now, Cruz is urging pastors to speak to their congregations about the recent undercover investigative videos that revealed top medical directors at Planned Parenthood discussing the harvesting of the body parts of aborted babies for potential sale on the open market.
“Preaching from the pulpit Biblical values on life and comparing those values, the teachings of Jesus, to this nationwide business of trafficking in the body parts of unborn children is a message that needs to be heard around this country,” Cruz said. “It is important that [Congress] hear also that a show vote will not suffice. An empty vote with no teeth on it will not suffice. Now is the time for Congress to act and actually end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.”
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HOORAY Cruz. Thank YOU.
This (the executive branch and CONgre$$) is the most evil government in the history of the republic, after what has been revealed to us about Planned Pre-Meditated Pulling Apart Babies for Profit. We are FORCED to pay for these deceivers…this death cult.
Plunder and death…the calling cards of criminals, socialists, and totalitarians. Witness history. Witness current events.
ZERO REPRESENTATION on fundamental aspects of life, liberty and the slaughter of the innocent.
DEFUND/PROSECUTE
“There’s no education in the second kick of the mule,” McConnell said,”
There is if the first kick didn’t teach you anything you jackass.
Cruz needs to make it clear that any member of congress that doesn’t vote to stop this criminal activity, will be deemed as supporting it, and opening themselves up to a RICO charge.
Maybe that would get through the turtle’s shell.
vowing is cheap
Okay, good. Whew! I read ‘defund’ as ‘defend’ and thought I’d been transported to the twilight zone.
You seem to be intimating that Cruz is not a man of his word. Have you ever known him to make a vow and not follow through?
Can’t he get someone in the House to introduce such a bill. Then he could support it and show he’s doing something besides campaigning.
Good point, IM2MAD. CONgre$$? CONgre$$?
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
... Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says he plans to launch a grassroots campaignYAWN!
He's having problem enough with getting grassroots support for his campaign.
This PP/baby parts has gone on so long with no result it's getting embarrassing.
If he really wants results he'll have to get Trump. Someone who knows how to get things done with out a lot of non-sense talk and debates.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
This PP/baby parts has gone on so long with no result it's getting embarrassing.
If he really wants results he'll have to get Trump. Someone who knows how to get things done with out a lot of non-sense talk and debates.
Spoken like a true side-liner who has no real convictions so they mock those who do and who are willing to invest themselves in their convictions.
Which candidate do you donate to - or do you just sit on your wallet and mock them for "not being able to get grassroots support"?
How about FR - do you support FR?
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