That’s an alternate headline to this story:
Forty-one senators have pledged to filibuster any bipartisan spending bill that includes an amendment to strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood, threatening an impasse with House conservatives.
The group, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), includes thirty-nine Democratic senators and two Independents, Sens. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.). …
The group outlined their opposition in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), asking Reid and McConnell to “stand with us against extreme proposals by some members of the House to eliminate support for women’s health and family planning programs and providers that service millions of women and families.”
Hm. That bolded word. I’ve heard it somewhere before… Oh yeah! It’s the Democrats’ big talking point.
Schumer was caught on tape explaining to his fellow Democrats why he favors characterizing spending cuts proposed by the GOP as “extreme” and “draconian.”
He proceeded to elaborate: “I always use the word ‘extreme’; that’s what the caucus instructed me to do the other week.”
The only thing that’s extreme in all this is the Democrats’ devotion to the abortion industry. They’re literally putting that industry above fiscal sanity. The federal government should never have been in the business of funding Planned Parenthood when we could afford it. Now that we can’t, it’s among many many many government money pits that need to be filled in.
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