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spanone

(135,844 posts) Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:39 AM Nov 2015

the new witch hunt begins: marsha blackburn now has $300,000 to investigate Planned Parenthood

WASHINGTON — A special congressional investigation into how abortion providers handle fetal tissue will start off with a $300,000 budget that Republicans are diverting from a $1 million reserve fund.

The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, chaired by Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, was created in October after an uproar over Planned Parenthood’s role in providing researchers with tissue from aborted fetuses.

Republicans have named eight members to the panel, a new House Energy and Commerce subcommittee. Democrats, who oppose the investigation, appointed six members.

A staff director for the investigation was recently hired, indicating the probe will require additional resources not already allocated to the full committee.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/11/24/initial-budget-for-house-probe-abortion-providers/76324162/

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the new witch hunt begins: marsha blackburn now has $300,000 to investigate Planned Parenthood (Original Post) spanone Nov 2015 OP

it'll be in the news 24/7 madokie Nov 2015 #1

Nobody expects the Inquisition. Hugin Nov 2015 #2

the new benghazi. spanone Nov 2015 #3

gotta keep old ben going too though madokie Nov 2015 #4

Add her to the list of accomplices malaise Nov 2015 #5

…and cut Medicaid, food assistance and early childhood education librechik Nov 2015 #6

Dems call this committee-> "GOP’s Select Committee to Attack Women’s Health" riversedge Nov 2015 #7

Republicans ginning up more right wing terrorists workinclasszero Nov 2015 #8

Instigators. nt 2naSalit Nov 2015 #10

Didn't 7 or 8 states already investigate this? Beaverhausen Nov 2015 #9

It should be a crime for Congress to waste money on political witch hunts. Rex Nov 2015 #11

Let her investigate. She won't find anything. Vinca Nov 2015 #12

i doubt she wants to find anything....it's daily red meat for the msm spanone Nov 2015 #15

Closest precedent doesn't inspire confidence Teamster Jeff Nov 2015 #13

As predicted, the Demo Party WILL abandon legal abortion as an issue... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #16

I hope you are wrong about #2. On #1 they are itching to make cuts. I'll add a #3 Teamster Jeff Nov 2015 #20

I set my standards rather low... Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #23

Not if Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren can help it. nt Chef Eric Nov 2015 #21

Which is why I support them. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #26

No opposition, no surprise. Ready the old underground & Mexican border clinics. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #14

Cool! Every day will now be wine and guns day! randome Nov 2015 #17

Their new wine glasses will be engraved with Eternal Gestation. nt valerief Nov 2015 #18

Prefer Internal Indigestion. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #27

OMFG !!!!! LongTomH Nov 2015 #19

+1 Hiraeth Nov 2015 #22

Planned Parenthood seems to be replacing Benghazi as the latest repuke bullshit meme Skittles Nov 2015 #24

and the media will lap it up and spread it on thick. spanone Nov 2015 #25

And mention the crap video. Everytime. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #28

madokie

(51,076 posts)

1. it'll be in the news 24/7

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:43 AM

Nov 2015

I swear the bastids are going to take us back to 1620 as sure as shit

Hugin

(33,164 posts)

2. Nobody expects the Inquisition.

Reply to madokie (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:46 AM

Nov 2015

Probably further back than 1620. SMDH.

spanone

(135,844 posts)

3. the new benghazi.

Reply to madokie (Reply #1)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:46 AM

Nov 2015

madokie

(51,076 posts)

4. gotta keep old ben going too though

Reply to spanone (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:54 AM

Nov 2015

gotta kill Hillary with a thousand cuts you know.

We can't have fair elections based on issues and facts here in America anymore it seems.

malaise

(269,054 posts)

5. Add her to the list of accomplices

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 11:59 AM

Nov 2015

It's what they want.

librechik

(30,674 posts)

6. …and cut Medicaid, food assistance and early childhood education

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 12:00 PM

Nov 2015

that's the other half of the equation, right? You have to pay for these things somehow. Things even out in the big picture.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

7. Dems call this committee-> "GOP’s Select Committee to Attack Women’s Health"

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 12:59 PM

Nov 2015

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)

8. Republicans ginning up more right wing terrorists

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:07 PM

Nov 2015

Accessories to murder is what they are.

2naSalit

(86,647 posts)

10. Instigators. nt

Reply to workinclasszero (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:11 PM

Nov 2015

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)

9. Didn't 7 or 8 states already investigate this?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:09 PM

Nov 2015

And all found no wrongdoing?

Rex

(65,616 posts)

11. It should be a crime for Congress to waste money on political witch hunts.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:21 PM

Nov 2015

Yet the GOP suffers from mass hatred for the human race. Their pretend morality is a joke the world over.

Vinca

(50,278 posts)

12. Let her investigate. She won't find anything.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:23 PM

Nov 2015

Republicans love to waste taxpayer dollars and this is just one more example.

spanone

(135,844 posts)

15. i doubt she wants to find anything....it's daily red meat for the msm

Reply to Vinca (Reply #12)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:36 PM

Nov 2015

they'll lap up all the 'brain harvesting' talk and 'baby parts' talk...

just like acorn.....which was disappeared

Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)

13. Closest precedent doesn't inspire confidence

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:33 PM

Nov 2015

Democrats in Congress are abandoning an embattled community organizing group after Republicans stepped up attacks on the liberal-leaning ACORN and the federal funding it receives.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32917270/ns/politics-cq_politics/t/democrats-run-away-embattled-acorn/#.Vls0v-I8WeE

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

16. As predicted, the Demo Party WILL abandon legal abortion as an issue...

Reply to Teamster Jeff (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:39 PM

Nov 2015

...as they are abandoning social security.

I said 20 years ago that the Democratic Party would signal its vacuous and anti-progressive character when it abandons 2 issues:

1). Social security

2). Woman's right to choose

It's happening.

Teamster Jeff

(1,598 posts)

20. I hope you are wrong about #2. On #1 they are itching to make cuts. I'll add a #3

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #16)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:59 PM

Nov 2015

Obama has overseen the worst environment for organized labor since Ronald Reagan. But the problem is bigger than Obama. It’s the entire Democratic Party.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/15041-democrats-and-labor-a-tale-of-abuse

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

23. I set my standards rather low...

Reply to Teamster Jeff (Reply #20)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 02:42 PM

Nov 2015

Since the Party had already cast its lot with corporate power a generation ago.

The Party leadership is genuinely afraid of the Far Right, and it doesn't really matter the latter's numbers.

Chef Eric

(1,024 posts)

21. Not if Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren can help it. nt

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #16)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:59 PM

Nov 2015

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

26. Which is why I support them.

Reply to Chef Eric (Reply #21)

Mon Nov 30, 2015, 11:48 AM

Nov 2015

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

14. No opposition, no surprise. Ready the old underground & Mexican border clinics.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:35 PM

Nov 2015

randome

(34,845 posts)

17. Cool! Every day will now be wine and guns day!

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Sun Nov 29, 2015, 01:44 PM

Nov 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3269703/Claims-Wine-Wednesdays-gun-buying-club-bias-plague-Benghazi-committee-chairman-hammers-fired-aide-demanded-money-ran-press.html

On Wednesday, for example, they hold a wine club nicknamed 'Wine Wednesdays,' where they drink wine from glasses that have the words 'Glacial Pace,' imprinted on them.
This is supposed to be a dig at Rep. Elijah Cummings, the committee's top Democrat, who used the term as a way to describe the speed of the committee's work.
Podliska also told the Times that several Republican staffers formed a gun-buying club at one point and discussed in the committee's conference room which 9-millimeter Glock handguns they wanted and what they'd inscribe on the guns.

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