Rand Paul: Blame Dems for shutdown over Planned Parenthood

[Brian4Liberty]

Rand Paul: Blame Dems for shutdown over Planned Parenthood
By Barbara Boland (@bbatdc) • 9/10/15

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, R-Ky., argued Thursday that the GOP should send a government funding bill to President Obama's desk without any money for Planned Parenthood, and let Democrats dare to shut down the government.

"If the Democrats want to shut down government over this, then it goes to Democrats," Paul said at a Capitol Hill rally. "The Democrats want to shut down government, we should point the finger and say, 'If you want to shut down the government over spending money on harvesting organs from babies, so be it,' but we will take a stand."

"I, for one, will take a stand. I have never voted for any funds for Planned Parenthood and I never will," said Paul, who is number 10 in the Washington Examiner's power rankings, to applause.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has said Republicans don't have the votes to defund Planned Parenthood, but Paul said McConnell is getting it "exactly wrong."

"Now some are saying we don't have enough votes. We don't have enough votes to defund Planned Parenthood," said Paul. "That gets it exactly wrong. You have to fund Planned Parenthood. You have to have 60 votes to affirmatively fund Planned Parenthood."

"So don't accept the notion that we have to get to 60," he continued. "The other side has to get to 60. The other side has to find 60 votes to fund Planned Parenthood. This is not a problem – they do not have 60 votes to fund Planned Parenthood – as long as we separate the bills and tell them 'You go out and find 60 votes to fund Planned Parenthood.'"
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More: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2571783

 

[squirl22]

I just got an email from Rand about this rally today in which Sarah Palin said:

"[Rand Paul] is an outsider in a very good and healthy way. I certainly have a lot of respect for him for his courage in going rogue, and being that outsider and effecting positive change. "

- Sarah Palin, Women Betrayed Rally, 9/10/15

Also here is YouTube link to his speech today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=92&v=0hxgPAgDJl0

 

[Natural Citizen]

What really annoys me about this is that the money that we are being forced to give this organization is being given directly to the Democratic Party and their political campaigns by this organization. The organization is essentially an arm of the Democratic Party and we are being forced to fund those party campaigns this way.

 

[65fastback2+2]

get 'em!

 

[65fastback2+2]

What really annoys me about this is that the money that we are being forced to give this organization is being given directly to the Democrativc Party and their political campaigns.

yup! embezzlement really