GOP Congress Hypocrisy :Zika Bill Fail

[Rob_BW]

Why don't they have the backbone to vote for funding Zika research and entering a bill to de-fund PP as a stand alone bill?

Why not entertain compromise instead of labeling everything a poison pill. Or better yet, why not fund Planned Parenthood in a stand alone bill?

 

[Zaac]

Why not entertain compromise instead of labeling everything a poison pill. Or better yet, why not fund Planned Parenthood in a stand alone bill?

Was there any reference to PP in the original appropriations bill? Why come back and add those stipulations unless you didn't want it approved?

 

[Crabtownboy]

Why not entertain compromise instead of labeling everything a poison pill. Or better yet, why not fund Planned Parenthood in a stand alone bill?

The funding is in the general appropriations bill. To de-fund it the GOP should introduce a stand alone bill and see if they can push it through.

They, the GOP, should not put living people and unborn children at risk by adding an ear mark they know will result in the entire bill being killed. It does show their stance on the unborn is a sham.

 

[Rob_BW]

Three words: Line item veto.

Then, if something is distasteful enough, it will have to stand on it's own merits.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Three words: Line item veto.

Then, if something is distasteful enough, it will have to stand on it's own merits.

I thought about the line item veto also. My personal opinion is that while the line item veto is an attractive concept at first glance. But looking at it in a long-term way I believe it gives the president, any president, far too much power. Can you imagine how much damage a pernicious president could do with this power.

The line item veto bill of 1996 was passed but did not live past a quick judicial review.

 

[Rob_BW]

I thought about the line item veto also. My personal opinion is that while the line item veto is an attractive concept at first glance. But looking at it in a long-term way I believe it gives the president, any president, far too much power. Can you imagine how much damage a pernicious president could do with this power.

The line item veto bill of 1996 was passed but did not live past a quick judicial review.

Oh, I agree. It is not a magical, perfect solution.

How about this, a line item veto power that is only usable in years with deficit spending.

 

[TCassidy]

To de-fund it the GOP should introduce a stand alone bill and see if they can push it through.

I find myself actually agreeing with Crabtownboy! Every bill should stand alone. And every amendment to any bill should be required to address the content of the bill and nothing else.

 

[777]

The only problem with that, TCassidy, is that the lazy lawmakers would have to write and vote on bill after bill - it's simply easier on them this way.

There is NO "poison pill" in this ZIka bill, and Rubio tried hard to pass a "clean one" in the spring, but the left didn't want that either. Their big beef is that there isn't an earmark for their precious PP.

 

[Sapper Woody]

The only problem with that, TCassidy, is that the lazy lawmakers would have to write and vote on bill after bill - it's simply easier on them this way.

There is NO "poison pill" in this ZIka bill, and Rubio tried hard to pass a "clean one" in the spring, but the left didn't want that either. Their big beef is that there isn't an earmark for their precious PP.

That's what I'm reading, too. The original bill was brought up, and the Dems down voted it, because it didn't contain an earmark for PP. Now that there is, and the GOP wants to take it out, suddenly the GOP are the hypocrites, when it was the Dems who shot it down in the first place. It's unreal the twists and lies people are throwing at the GOP. And these same lies are being propagated on this very site.

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[777]

Yep, and they're STILL lying:

For what seems like the hundredth time, Senate Republicans are being falsely accused of playing politics with Zika-virus research funding. The latest culprit of peddling this claim? Daniel Denvir of Salon, who recently accused the New York Times — yes, the New York Times! — of favoring the GOP in its coverage of the Senate battle over a bill that would fund Zika-virus prevention and treatment. Denvir’s criticism rests on his exceptionally dishonest representation of the bill’s contents and his deceitful claim that Republicans are stymieing the legislation due to their opposition to abortion.

As I reported in early August, contrary to leading Democrats’ continued assertions, the bill contains no “poison pill” to attack access to “reproductive health care.” Denvir accuses Republicans of making “Zika funding the latest hostage to their crusade to defund Planned Parenthood,” but the bill does no such thing. Rather, it was Democrats blocked the bill for the third time on Tuesday because it doesn’t contain an earmark specifically granting extra funding to Planned Parenthood. This fact — evident from a brief scan of the bill itself — hasn’t stopped liberal media outlets from mischaracterizing the issue, but it seems, in this instance, that the New York Times is telling the truth. Denvir’s bogus attack on Senate Republicans merely verifies the Times’ report.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corne...nding-delayed-over-loyalty-planned-parenthood

A leftist will lie and if PP is involved in any way, they will always lie.