The co-chairwoman of the RNC’s Resolutions Committee said that the GOP platform to be unveiled at the convention Monday is “about 90 percent focused on jobs, the economy.”
“The platform is a visionary document. It is there supporting the culture of life and then the issue recognizing federalism,” Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said on MSNBC. “…It is silent on the exceptions [for rape or incest] because that is an issue that is handled by the states.”
When it’s released at 2 p.m. Monday, she said, people will see the platform “is first and foremost jobs and the economy and the focus is getting the fiscal health for this nation back in order.”
“There is a section on the Constitution, which is a new section for our Republican platform, and I think there’s about 10 percent that are on the traditional issues that you’re mentioning and we are the party that is supportive of life.”
Blackburn was asked about why 45 percent have a negative view of the Republican Party going into next week’s convention.
“Maybe they are listening too much to major media outlets,” the congresswoman responded.
CHAIRWOMAN???!!! I’ve been told the GOP HATES women? What gives?
– char woman?
10% social issues in the GOP platform is still too much, it shouldn’t be more than 5%. When your house is on fire, you call the fire dept. to put out the fire before you worry about calling a building contractor to rebuild. Social issues, while important, are a luxury best left for a time when the nation isn’t racing headlong into a crisis of monumental proportions. Four more years of Obama’s wild, reckless, irresponsible, unsustainable spending and this country will be Greece on steroids; let’s take care of that problem before we worry about abortion or gay marriage.
There is a plank calling for naming abortion with no exceptions for rape incest or to save the life of the mother. I find the notion of social conservatives ramrodding this radicalism into the platform as offensive as an Obama second term.
This is just pathetic and if Obama does win, it will be for crap like this. Akinism is in the party and it may hand Obama victory,
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR:
Omnibus Appropriations, Special Education, Global AIDS Initiative, Job Training, Unemployment Benefits, Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations, Agriculture Appropriations, FY2004 Foreign Operations Appropriations, U.S.-Singapore Trade, U.S.-Chile Trade, Supplemental Spending for Iraq & Afghanistan, Flood Insurance Reauthorization , Prescription Drug Benefit, Child Nutrition Programs, Surface Transportation, Job Training and Worker Services, Agriculture Appropriations, Foreign Aid, Debt Limit Increase, Fiscal 2005 Omnibus Appropriations, Vocational/Technical Training, Supplemental Appropriations, UN “Reforms.” Patriot Act Reauthorization, CAFTA, Katrina Hurricane-relief Appropriations, Head Start Funding, Line-item Rescission, Oman Trade Agreement, Military Tribunals, Electronic Surveillance, Head Start Funding, COPS Funding, Funding the REAL ID Act (National ID), Foreign Intelligence Surveillance, Thought Crimes “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, Peru Free Trade Agreement, Economic Stimulus, Farm Bill (Veto Override), Warrantless Searches, Employee Verification Program, Body Imaging Screening, Patriot Act extension., Supplemental Appropriations, Patriot Act Extension, Debt Deal, South Korea Trade Agreement, Omnibus Appropriations, Line-item Veto, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)..
Marsha Blackburn Voted AGAINST:
Ban on UN Contributions, eliminate Millennium Challenge Account, WTO Withdrawal, UN Dues Decrease, Defunding the NAIS, Iran Military Operations defunding Iraq Troop Withdrawal, congress authorization of Iran Military Operations, Withdrawing U.S. Soldiers from Afghanistan, Libya Troop Withdrawal, Libya. stopping Indefinite Detention.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her “blatantly unconstitutional” votes at :
http://mickeywhite.blogspot.com/2009/09/tn-congressman-marsha-blackburn-votes.html
Mickey