Telling that Mitch McConnell voted against it. He is a loyal Democrat after all.
NOTE FOR THOSE WHO ASK WHY MITCH McCONNELL VOTED ‘NO’....
McConnell changed his vote to “no” on defunding, a procedural maneuver that allows him to bring up the failed bill anytime, perhaps as soon as Tuesday.
The only recap necessary: McConnell - Nay. (Graham - hiding)
Pretty much as I expected, Toomey Yea, Casey Nay.. ironic considering Casey Sr was a very adamant Pro Life Democrat... his son is just a party line robot... but everyone knew that and elected him anyway.
Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
The money the government gives them is for breast cancer screening etc... and I don't mean mammograms (which might save some lives) but the old ‘feel for a lump’ stuff most women do at home.
It's all stuff covered by ObamaCare - there's NO logical reason to give money to planned parenthood other than liberals fascination with - and joy in - killing human babies.
Well I see the two Senatorial pieces of shite from Michigan voted ‘nay.’ No surprise from the goose-stepping socialist duo.
I hate these damm games the Senate plays. This is a clouture vote. Which means if passed it proceeds as a law to the seante and the senate votes on it. This should have been in the Highway Bill. Where there would have been a resonable chance of it passing and the defunding take place.
Look at that, Bernie Sanders voting “Nay”. smh
So McConnell voted NO. Just another reason to be glad he won his reelection bid. /sarc
How many votes were needed for cloture?
I see Hindlick and Underall from New Mexico still prefer chopped up babies to live babies.
So McConnell joined the democrats to vote against defunding! Will somebody please put forth a motion for him to vacate his position?
This was NOT a fair vote. It was a RIGGED vote, The Dems and GOP leadership knew EXACTLY how many votes they needed to kill the anti-Planned Parenthood initiative. That snake Manchin and the other snake from Illinois were given permission by the White House to vote with the GOP on this issue as Obama KNEW how many votes they actually needed to kill it and how important it was to make Manchin and the Kirkwood look good to their conservative constituents on this empty gesture to assure re-election.
Is ANYBODY surprised at what McConnell did? Lindsey voted to kill the initiative by being somewhere else.
There is only ONE party - the Republicrats. They conspire and plot to defraud and cheat the public and play with public opinion too keep themselves in power. This is a perfect example of their insidious duplicity.
Thanks, Mitch.
I sent the following to Durbin and a slightly altered version to Kirk.
I assume that men or women of conscience can disagree on a topic and have a reasonable conversation about it. But when I see that you have voted against defunding the abortion mill that is Planned Parenthood I can only assume you have no conscience. How anyone, especially someone who purports to be Roman Catholic, can look at the videos, read the literature and not come to the conclusion that a human life is being destroyed in the name of convenience masking itself as “women’s health” is incomprehensible.
The only conclusion I can come to is that you have sold yourself to the highest bidder and will not do anything to stop the flow of cash into your pocket so you can maintain your power. You turn a blind eye to what is happening and pretend you are doing the “right thing” for the woman when in fact you do not give a tinkers damn about the woman or the living creature inside her. For you it is all about getting reelected and being important. What a coward.
You know what is right and what is wrong and you refuse to look. This is reminiscent of the burgers in the towns and villages around Dachau. They too knew, yet did nothing.
Think about the video of the tissue...no not tissue! The human beings ripped apart and stirred around in a glass pie plate to be sold to the highest bidder. And when you do, imagine that your own children were once at the same stage of development. Like any good father, you would do anything to protect them, but you do nothing. You have power yet you are afraid to use it to speak for the innocent and defenseless.
My disgust for you only continues to grow. What a pathetic example of a man you are.
I know he will never read it nor even hear about it, but it made me feel just a little better for having sent it.
Would it be possible to pass a law making it illegal for any entity that receives federal funding (or state funding) to be able to make political contributions?
Essentially one half of the country is being taxed to contribute to campaigns of people they would never vote for. This should be illegal!!!!