Posted on 09/01/2015 11:48:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says that defunding Planned Parenthood will have to wait for a new commander in chief in 2017.
“The president’s made it very clear he’s not going to sign any bill that includes defunding of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another issue that awaits a new president, hopefully with a different point of view about Planned Parenthood,” McConnell said Monday on the Kentucky station WYMT’s “Issues and Answers.”
Defunding Planned Parenthood has become a leading cause among some Republicans in the wake of controversial undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing the price of fetal tissue for medical research. Planned Parenthood, while apologizing for the tone, denies any wrongdoing, saying officials are discussing legal compensation for expenses and pointing to an analysis that the videos are heavily edited.
McConnell said that the Senate would vote again on defunding Planned Parenthood after a failed Senate vote last month, but he said that the votes are not there.
“We just don’t have the votes to get the outcome that we’d like,” he said. “Again, the president has the pen to sign it. If he doesn’t sign it, it doesn’t happen. But, yeah, we voted on that already in the Senate, we’ll vote on it again, but I would remind all of your viewers the way you make a law in this country, the Congress has to pass it and the president has to sign it.”
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He makes it sound like a bill to defund them won’t pass, when really its the opposite. You just don’t include them in the budget.
They are decapitating babies and selling the heads and GOP can’t be roused to say boo about it. Instead of debating whether or not to lynch these people the most they can do is discuss how much they are going to pay them for all the good things they supposedly do.
White flag before the battle is begun...Where’s the ‘hold their feet to the fire’ lackeys these days??
Even IF we gave ‘em all 3, there they’d be spouting “We have MORE important things to worry about than XYZ...” or something about ‘needing bi-partisanship’ or some such nonsense.
Everyone that agreed to keep this turtle-head piece of shite in ‘leadership’ should be railed out of office. Oh, the longing for the ‘olden days’...
“100% RIGHT. And they know it.”
At least we get THAT small satisfaction LOL
[Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says that defunding Planned Parenthood will have to wait for a new commander in chief in 2017.]
How many more babies will be dismembered and sold piece by piece by 2017?
U.S. Senators, their blood is on your hands.
While its useful to lay blame at McConnell’s feet for the GOP’s unwillingness to confront, we should remember that GOP senators chose him as their leader even knowing exactly who and what he is.
They can hide behind him but he is them.
I just realized how fair and balanced I am. I loath the rinos as much as I loath the democrats. Note to spell check: Thanks, but mcconnel does not warrant capitalization.
“McConnell: Defunding Planned Parenthood must wait for new president”
Or a new Senate Majority Leader, sooner rather than later.
Why not? They destroyed our country with their support for liberal Republicans. It’s only right we take what little comfort we can. They did take everything else from America afterall.
If anyone wants to make a coherent argument as to how people that supported and voted to empower liberals did not in fact destroy America, I want to hear it. If they didn’t, then who did?
Oh thats right. Principled conservatives voting to actually save America from liberals did.
How foolish of me.
So do their voters who knowingly empowered them.
[So do their voters who knowingly empowered them?]
You mean the ones who were told to vote for the lesser of two evils? Never again.
“If anyone wants to make a coherent argument as to how people that supported and voted to empower liberals did not in fact destroy America, I want to hear it.”
How many times have you asked this? And how many times did the aggrieved poster then disappear ?
Contemptible rat bastard.
There can be redemption. None of us is perfect. But look how many on threads today are still making excuses? As long as they do it again and again and again, they, not the people they elect are the real evil.
Every. One of them wants us all shot so there’s that I guess.
Okay, Bitch, we know you can’t do anything other than what Obama wants you to do.
Is KY a high-abortion state? Like FL and TX, for instance. I didn’t think it is. I know MS and ND are among the lowest abortion boosters.
CHRIS! It’s just a lesser evil! Ain’t no biggie...
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