RayLan:

To Cantor’s “fungibility” point. I think he fears that Planned Parenthood doesn’t have two accounts- one, funded by the feds for screening, tests, etc, and another, funded by private sources and used for abortion. He may be worried that if one source rund dry, they will get the money from the other.

I have no idea how PP runs its finances, but I think Cantor needs an answer, which would be provided by more transparency from PP.

Having said that, I still think the Repubs were idiots for putting the abortion issue so high up on their deal killer list. Let it go.

Margaret Sanger was right. We should look the other way on abortion, like we look the other way with gang wars: When you consider who engages in those activities you realize that they help reduce the less desirable elements in our society.

Regarding all the mock hysteria by the right about abortion funding—-
There was a rider that the Repugs attached to the
budget preventing federal funds, including Medicaid funding for low-income women, from going to Planned Parenthood, which by law cannot be used for abortions anyway. The funding Republicans tried to cut is for family planning, cancer screenings, and sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment.

What pissed me off about the Republicans was their unwillingness to ignore abortion. Seriously.

I mean really, how much does the government really spend in any given year killing predominantly black and poor underclass babies in DC? It must be way south of a billion. Chump change. If it really was about spending and not ideology, they would have let it go.

On the other hand, to hear the Dems talk, if the government were to shut down, there wouldn’t be another single breast cancer screening test performed in the nation until it opened back up (Harry Reid worried for the health of his women-folk!), and the very air we breathe would be poisoned beyond use in short order. Millions would starve in the streets, (including military families, but fuck them).

If Boehner had concentrated on fiscal rather than social consevatism, he probably could have cut a lot more. The Tea Party got in its own way on this one.

Boy, that combination of the daily use of MJ’s skin-bleaching cream, and some adept photo-shopping, has sure improved the appearance of the speaker’s photos, hasn’t it?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form
a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure
domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain
and establish this Constitution for the United States
of America.

provide - to supply or make available (something
wanted or needed

promote - to help bring about or further the growth
or establishment of

Hip Hip Hurray!  Orange-Face saves America in the dying seconds!!

What a Production.  Its all too manufactured.

Flash!

Dems cave to Re-thugs yet again.

I’m getting more and more jaded.

All the President had to say was “This is the deal. It’s a one-time offer. Take it or I’ll veto everything you send me until I get what I want.”

Instead he and Reid gave in…they are still blocking funding for abortions in DC.

Bloated Defense Budget suffers drastic cuts to ensure that the needs of all Americans are met in this fiscal year.

....Oh, wait…...

You have to admire the tea party politicians: they are doing EXACTLY what they promised their base they would do. I wish I could same the same for the Democrats - TheEnd