Posted on 09/27/2015 7:35:13 PM PDT by xzins
House Speaker John Boehner said on CBS’s "Face the Nation" this morning that there will be no government shutdown—thus signaling that the House of Representatives he will lead until the end of next month will not send the Senate a continuing resolution that Democrats there would filibuster because it prohibits funding of Planned Parenthood or that President Barack Obama would veto for the same reason.
In response to a follow-up question from host John Dickerson, Boehner said he was "sure" the funding bill he will put through the Republican-majority House will need Democratic votes to pass.
The law currently funding the government will expire on Wednesday, the last day of fiscal 2015.
Dickerson of CBS asked Boehner: “Four days, the government runs out of money. Is there going to be a shutdown?”
“No,” said Boehner.
“The Senate is expected to pass a continuing resolution next week,” said Boehner. “The House will take up the Senate bill. We will also take up a select committee to investigate these horrific videos that we have seen from abortion clinics in several states that really raise questions about the use of federal funds and raise questions about aborted fetuses that are born alive.”
In other words, the Republican congressional leadership at this time is separating legislation to fund the federal government after Wednesday from the question of whether to fund Planned Parenthood.
In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that it did 327,653 abortions in fiscal 2013—the latest year for which it has reported its abortion numbers. It also said that in the year that ended on June 30, 2014, it received $528.4 million in "government health services grants and reimbursements."
The “horrific videos” Boehner referred to are a series of videos released by the Center for Medical Progress that show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the harvesting of tissue from aborted babies.
CBS’s Dickerson followed up with Boehner by asking him if the CR that Boehner intends to bring up for a vote will need Democratic votes to pass—presumably because so many conservatives in the House will refuse to vote for legislation the funds Planned Parenthood. Boehner had no doubt that it would.
“The continuing resolution, will that require Democratic votes to pass?” asked Dickerson.
“I'm sure it will,” said Boehner. “But I expect my Democrat colleagues want to keep the government open as much as I do.”
Toward the end of the interview, Dickerson asked Boehner: “[D]o you have anything that you can say, now that you're headed out the door, that you wouldn't have said if you had to go through another election?”
“No. I love my colleagues, even love the ones I don't--that may disagree with me, Republicans or Democrats,” Boehner said. “I love my colleagues. I love the institution. And I try to do the best thing every day. I'm a simple guy.
“Just try to do the right things for the right reasons, and the right things will happen,” Boehner said.
Uh, ok.
Man that is spot on!
I wonder if this decision was made because Boner had cemented a K-street deal with a fat signing bonus and wanted to get on with it.;
I wonder if his adviser and confessor, Pope Frankie, advised the Catholic “pro-life” Boehner on this matter?
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Only a complete fool would view this as a victory.
It’s kabuki theater.
You think you have a victory, but what you actually have is nothing at all.
Do you want Bonehead to pass these important bills with the help of
RATS before he retires?
If not, the only option to stop him before he retires is to call for a motion
to vacate the chair to stop home.
With the votes of many RATs, that’s how.
It is very sadly.
These are a bunch of slithering snakes. Their only purpose is to deceive, lie, fake out and sandbag anything that will harm the government agenda while advancing the government agenda as fast as they can.
WTP wouldn’t mind one bit to see the entire store OUT OF BUSINESS, DEFUNCT, CLOSED. That this SOB sticks that finger in the nation’s eye, he has signed the death warrant of the United States of America. This is war with a pox on him and his entire family of rinos. The GOPe —rest their wicked, evil souls. JB, may you fry in that tanning booth as if it were the depths of hell itself.
I don’t see it as a victory, or defeat . . . for that matter. Boehner saw the writing on the wall, and decided to throw in the towel. That’s it. Actually, he may have acted to save the Republican brand.
Sure, but the Republicans should all vote no.
Man, any of them voting to continue funding to PP, should be put on notice.
If he were acting to save the Republican “brand” he wouldn’t behave the way he is now: as a bitter vindictive jerk.
Sorry, don’t see it that way.
How many times has Bonehead used RAT votes to pass bills
on important votes?
To many to count.
:)
“Dickerson of CBS asked Boehner: “Four days, the government runs out of money. Is there going to be a shutdown?”
The government ran out of money a long time ago. Sheesh!
Follow through and vacate the chair.
One has to understand Obama is cutting him loose, he’s not retiring on his own. Once he carries the ball one more time over the goal line for Obie, that’s all Obie needs of him, after all Obie only has 15 months left to destroy the country. The CR is the big deal, amnesty is the icing on the cake.
He hasn’t thrown in the towel.
He’s going to do exactly what he was going to do before, except now he’s going to make the base think they got something, when in fact all they got was screwed... again.
Furthermore, there is no Republican brand. That is a corrupted word that has no actual meaning.
It is, quite simply, a lie.
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