Senate Votes to End Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood
Source: NBCNEWS
Senate Republicans have overwhelmed Democrats in a vote to end Planned Parenthood's federal funding.
Thursday's vote comes as the Senate moves toward approval of a bill that would all but repeal the president's health care law.
The bill would also take away the federal dollars that Planned Parenthood receives. Democrats tried restoring those funds, but their effort was rejected on a near party-line vote of 54-46.
The House is expected to send the bill to President Barack Obama in the coming days. The White House has pledged that Obama will veto it.
Republicans lack the two-thirds House and Senate majorities needed to override a veto. That means the measure will achieve one thing: giving both parties political messaging they can use in next year's elections.
Read more: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/Senate-Set-to-OK-Republican-Bill-Unraveling-Health-Care-Law-360441211.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand
old guy
(3,283 posts)Conch
(80 posts)Posturing without production.
elmac
(4,642 posts)The grand old pukes are America's Daesh.
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)More fiddling as Rome burns.
Unless we achieve a political revolution, this downward spiral will continue to the inevitable hard landing.
Feelin' the Bern more and evermore.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)And maybe a Fascist Rump as President...and it will be the end of America.
Pull your head out of your ass or up from the fucking phone and pay attention.
Photographer
(1,142 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Those that say they won't vote for Hillary.....what would we do without the veto pen?
Duval
(4,280 posts)But, really, "cannot tolerate"? Sigh!
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)We are Democrats not Independents....
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)In our younger years. Goldwater Girls indeed.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)You do know Elizabeth Warren was an actual registered Repuke right?
And now even Sanders had no choice but to join us....wonder who he will vote for after she wins?
Hekate
(90,777 posts)Saint Elizabeth Warren was fully an adult before she saw the light, iirc.
Get real.
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)He couldnt get on the ballot in NH.....otherwise his campaign was finished....which is why he said afterwards...
"I am a Democrat NOW"
..
Gore1FL
(21,151 posts)Instead of a setup where coalitions are built between among many parties after an election, we decide on those coalitions before the election. It's the natural fallout of having to collect enough winner-take-all states to get a majority of electors.
penndragon69
(788 posts)It's that we see Hillary as nothing but another
center right " Gold Water girl" repubLIEcon.
We will vote for her (IF) she is the nominee,
but we know very well how dangerous she
could be in the White House.
Bernie Sanders is our last, best hope !
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)EXACTLY that....I have an ignore list full of them....
longship
(40,416 posts)Neither was I when I attended an Economics Club luncheon in Detroit and heard Goldwater speak when I was in fucking 8th grade in 1963.
Before I became old enough to cast a ballot I became a lifelong Democrat.
I will likely vote for Bernie in the MI primary. But this Goldwater girl thing -- Note: one word, it's his name, not a description of the color of some liquid -- is as smarmy an attack as I've ever seen. It is totally irrelevant to her current political positions, which should rightly be the topic of discussion.
Sorry, my friend. Just cannot go there with you.
Hekate
(90,777 posts)Christ on a trailer hitch.
Gloria
(17,663 posts)yelling on Election Day, Nixon vs. Kennedy.
I was yelling NIXON....why? that's what I heard in my Republican, lily white town.
DECADES LATER....shit, I hate Republicans and am a Democrat/Independent. However, I am pragmatic and know that idealistic bullshit will get us nowhere....I was there in the 60's, and we really are not in a position now to every have utopia....We are looking for incremental gains and fending off the FAR RIGHT....
It means SQUAT what she did in high school...she was influenced by many things.
GROW UP!
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Achieves the same result and doesn't then create the necessity of giving Hillary a Democratic Congress that will war with her for being insufficiently progressive.
penndragon69
(788 posts)Will Americans EVER wake up and realize
just how dangerous these FANATICS are ?
Forget ISIS, the GOP is the #1 threat to America, PERIOD !
yardwork
(61,700 posts)Any of the three candidates vying to be the Democratic nominee would veto this and other horrible bills. Every single one of the Republican candidates would embrace the horrible bills.
An example of what is at stake.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Get HRC elected, she can work out a compromise that will do away with SuperPACs by allowing unlimited and unregistered funding directly to candidates and as a compromise she will sign a bill that revokes funding for PP and revokes the ACA. Everyone, especially HRC, wins!
Or $12 an hour...whichever is easiest.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Are they aiming for 100?
Don't they know it will get vetoed, and stands no chance of passing after the veto?
What a bunch of idiots!
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)Now they can go to the electorate and say look, if you return a majority of us to Congress, and give us the White House, we'll be able to pass this legislation and make it stick.
For those inclined to support repeal of the ACA and the attacks on women's health, this will present a very strong, very viable illustration of what's at stake. And the more times they illustrate this, though they be failure after failure, the greater the impression they'll make on their followers.
Seems pretty straightforward and potentially quite effective. They may be idiots but they're at the head of a host of idiots, and what may seem foolish from the outside is probably very astute when viewed from inside they and their followers belief structure.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)"Fascism will come to America under the guise of patriotism." ===Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana & Senator
And my dad was an adult when Huey was governor. People knew he was dangerous and that he had to be stopped.
My dad's first wife's brother was roommates with the doctor who was the alleged gunman, and she said that there was no way that mild-mannered Dr. Carl Weiss could have killed Long.
Roosevelt considered Long a radical demagogue. The president privately said of Long that along with General Douglas MacArthur, "[H]e was one of the two most dangerous men in America."
There is still debate whether he was a populist or a fascist demagogue.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Hekate
(90,777 posts)Vinca
(50,302 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)and GASOLINE.
randys1
(16,286 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)when they were in the majority?
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)Gloria
(17,663 posts)and nailed with the "back alley abortion" TX shit, etc. etc.
NAILED...
Their "political messaging" is not just "messaging"....they will do this if they can!!
vkkv
(3,384 posts)riversedge
(70,285 posts)of Congress, I truly believe there is little hope for women and families.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Hekate
(90,777 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Nothing really surprises me anymore