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McConnell: Planned Parenthood funding protest 'exercise in futility'
Politico ^ | 09/11/2015 | BURGESS EVERETT and JOHN BRESNAHAN

Posted on 09/11/2015 10:31:55 AM PDT by GIdget2004

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To: GIdget2004

McTurtle, you can be for something, you can be against something...

NEVER again will your word be worth anything anymore, not since yesterday....before that you were just a spineless sissy, but after yesterday your more than that, your a disgusting, spineless sissy that is totally disgraced our Country, remember the one you took an oath to protect....

The only thing you want to protect is your pocket book, well its over now...you will never see the type of respect other people have, you disgraced it!!!


41 posted on 09/11/2015 10:50:18 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Go TRUMP 2016!!! All the Way to the White House!!!)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

It is scary for sure. It is like they don’t even realize why Trump is polling like he is. They refuse to believe that it isn’t just a love of Trump, but a total disgust for establishment Republicanism.

As it is now, I’m not gonna revote for my Congressman or Senator in 2016. I’m just not gonna do it any more.


42 posted on 09/11/2015 10:50:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: JMS

That time is long past overdue? Where are America’s much vaunted pastors leading a grassroots revolt form Kentucky to California and beyond.


43 posted on 09/11/2015 10:51:06 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: GIdget2004

Hey, Mitch.

I have a piece of exercise equipment I’d like you to try out.


44 posted on 09/11/2015 10:52:14 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Gaffer

I will not vote for my congressman or senator again. I will vote early and often for Trump. I hate the GOPe like the demorats.


45 posted on 09/11/2015 10:52:36 AM PDT by WENDLE (How did Hillary get Top Secret docs out of the Dedicated Secure Network facility?)
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To: Steelfish

Revolt by who? the people he told that he would work with Barry during the campaign? The people that got him elected? Who???

Why would they throw out the one pol in the senate that kept his promise to them and gave them what they voted for to the letter?

Thats a serious question BTW and not the sarcasm it looks like. No one has EVER answered it.?


46 posted on 09/11/2015 10:52:48 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart ("The road is long...and I must poop." - Volarian Lionheart/Hero of the people)
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To: GIdget2004
Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader is an exercise in futility.
47 posted on 09/11/2015 10:53:09 AM PDT by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: GIdget2004; All
McConnell has once again shown that he is a great example why the 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.

More specifically, the Founding States had established the Senate to be the voice of the state legislatures in Congress, the Senate’s job being to protect the interests of the states in Congress. But state lawmakers foolishly gave up their voice in Congress when they caved in to misguided, low-information citizens and ratifed the 17th Amendment.

What McConnell is ignoring concerning funding for Planned Parenthood is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for anything like Planned Parenthood.

In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified limits on Congress’s power to appropriate taxes.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So the Senate should have protected the states by killing unconstitutional House appropriations bills which created the funding that is used for vote-winning Planned Parenthood.

The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and state sovereignty-ignoring Senators like McConnell along with it.

48 posted on 09/11/2015 10:53:30 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: silverleaf
Breathlessly incompetent

Yup

49 posted on 09/11/2015 10:54:25 AM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: GIdget2004

What a lying son of a donkey.


50 posted on 09/11/2015 10:54:59 AM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Ghost of SVR4

You may be on to something.


51 posted on 09/11/2015 10:55:51 AM PDT by bimboeruption ("Occupy till I come" ~ OPORD issued by CIC Jesus Christ)
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To: GIdget2004

Screw you Mitch! They are using our tax dollars to butcher babies! Defund the whole damn government if you have to.
I am SO SICK of our ‘leaders’ telling us, “Well I want to do that BUT...”
Eff the whole GOP!


52 posted on 09/11/2015 10:55:59 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: GIdget2004
Hey McConnell electing Republicans and having them oppose Democracts is just wishful thinking. No need for us to bother to vote next election since by your own admission expecting anything from you is just wishful thinking.
53 posted on 09/11/2015 10:56:16 AM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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To: Norm Lenhart

There’s a wellspring of anger and betrayal at the grassroots that needs to be tapped. The pastors are themselves corrupt. Lots of talk to fill the collection trays but no action. Where are the (?)uckabees?


54 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:07 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: GIdget2004

McConnell is the embodiment in an exercise in futility


55 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:20 AM PDT by BigEdLB
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To: GIdget2004

It SHOULD be ‘an exercise in futility’.
This is clearly a law enforcement issue and the congress should not have to get involved.


56 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:50 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: GIdget2004

Good God...

Maybe it’d have been “better to be honest with the American people and say” back when you were campaigning, Mitch, “Vote for me and the Republican Senate will roll over for Obama at every opportunity.”

Someone needs to seriously press Trump on how he would deal with these turds, as opposed to petty insults...


57 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:52 AM PDT by Paul R.
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To: WENDLE

To me, they are actually worse than Democrats. I know Democrats are my enemy. Republicans are mostly liars and it is hard to tell.


58 posted on 09/11/2015 10:57:59 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: GIdget2004

-——”that’s not going to happen until you have a president who has a similar view”——

That is the cold hard fact

Republicans including the GOPc lack the raw political power to prevail over that boy in the White house.

Of course tomorrow, if he were gone it would be a different story


59 posted on 09/11/2015 10:58:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: GIdget2004

Saying this piece of excrement has a spine made out of jello is a terrible insult to jello.


60 posted on 09/11/2015 11:00:25 AM PDT by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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