Mike Pence Says He'd Shut Down the Government to Defund Planned Parenthood
Mike Pence made no secret of where his priorities are when it comes to governing. Pandering to the extremists in the religious right comes before the reproductive health of women, especially poor women and he'd prefer to shut down the government to funding Planned Parenthood. Just shameless.
Media Matters Political Correction has more -- Would Rep. Pence Shut Down The Government Over Planned Parenthood Funding? "Of Course":
This morning on MSNBC, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) restated his commitment to his moral crusade against Planned Parenthood, once again letting down the Americans who voted for Republicans in hopes they would focus on job creation. There's no clearer evidence of the GOP's misplaced priorities than Pence's declaration today that "of course" he would be willing to "hold up this entire budget" — which would result in a government shutdown — over the defunding of Planned Parenthood.
WILLIE GEIST (CO-HOST): Are you willing to hold up this entire budget over defunding Planned Parenthood?
PENCE: Well— well of course I am. I think the American people have begun to learn that the largest abortion provider in the country is also the largest recipient of federal funding under Title X, and they want to see that come to an end. I think there's a broad consensus in this country, regardless of where you stand on the subject of abortion, there's a broad consensus for decades now opposing public funding of abortion and abortion providers. ... We're going to dig in and we're going to fight for the principle that taxpayers should not have to subsidize the largest abortion provider in the country, namely Planned Parenthood of America.
And as they noted, or course Mike Pence is lying here:
The funds Planned Parenthood receives through Title X go to family planning and health services other than abortion — things like pap smears and birth control. Pence's defunding efforts have nothing to do with separating federal tax dollars from abortion funding, since they're already separate; his amendment will undermine the ability of Planned Parenthood to provide any services because they also provide abortions — a much more radical objective.
Perhaps that's why he's had to manufacture the "broad consensus" he claims support him; in fact, a majority of voters oppose cutting off federal funding for Planned Parenthood. Being willing to shut down the government in the name of a rather meaningless moral crusade is such an extreme position that co-host Joe Scarborough (a former Republican congressman) incredulously asked Pence to clarify — twice.
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The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
Geez. Enough already Mike P@in/in/the/Ass
…..Quit LYING… About Family Planning!!!
His ramblings sound more like the narrow minded, fundamentalist, propaganda spreading preachers of the backwoods , where generation after generation of ignorance is bred and raised.
Funny how he ignores his constituents' feelings on this. Oh wait, that's right, constituents don't matter!
I know this issue has probably been on the mind of a lot of people in his state as they are losing their jobs, having their home foreclosed, struggling to eat, and thinking about how they are going to pay the heat bill and gas , plus send their kids to college.
I would rather have my eyes chewed out by wild squirrels than ever have to look at or listen to any of these Republicans or Tea Party Lunatics again.
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Why would Pence want to do that? Bristol PAYlin could have used her some Planned Parenthood.
Er, or maybe not since she made 250K plopping out her illegitimate spawn.
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So basically this has become a pissing match between repigs to see who can place first in a contest of asshatery.
People that vote these cretins in should be fucking ASHAMED!
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
And to that point, Republicans spew crap about life(anti-abortion), but then these pro-life hippocrates, could care less about anybody except babies. The amount of Americans who die because of insurance co. who cut healthcare to families, with people dying & Republicans care more about big business than the families whose loved ones die. Not to mention the Conservatives blood lust for war & damned the soldiers who die in the wars they bring. What a bunch of fuc##n Hippocrates.
mike pence, the sleestak from indiana, talking about the sanctity of life... ? *steps back from impending lightning strike*
Another old white Republican man way too interested in women's issues.
mike pence is a fucking moron and should
have sex re-assignment surgery before the
day is over.
Tar and feathering and ride this tool out of town on a rail.
Why do Republicans hate America?
They don't - they just have a different definition of 'good' than the left does. They genuinely believe the dystopian hellhole they are trying to create will be a more just and appropriate and right society than the current one.
If they really hated America, this would be a far easier fight for us. But they don't - many of them are quite patriotic, and in their minds they are doing what is best for the nation. That's what makes them so scary - how can you talk a man out of destroying the country when he is utterly convinced that destruction is the best possible thing that could happen to it?
question to ask some commenters here. Many have said more than once that we should let it all go to hell so people will wake up.
"That's what makes them so scary - how can you talk a man out of destroying the country when he is utterly convinced that destruction is the best possible thing that could happen to it?"
...the electorate the illogical and destructive path the right is proffering? If shutting it down is what they want by their intractability then why not give it to them? Will it destroy America? No, things won't be nice for awhile and many may suffer, you, me, a lot of people but if they get a taste of their own medicine and they hate it, maybe then, civility and logic will return to win the day. I am at a loss to provide any other solution then to just let them have what they want. I've used my vote, my writing skills, my vocal skills and done everything short of violence to convince right-leaning thinkers that their path may look rosy but it is lined with thorns, long, sharp thorns that will penalize them in the long run and still they don't get it.
So yeah, let them shut it down. If it makes them happy, what choice do I have? I can't stop them.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
ask that person to remember what Christ said about your enemy... and could that response ever justify destruction of that enemy and if he says it does, he is a liar and not Christian.
wem
Repugnantklans love AmeriKKKa, but they hate those that claim to be Americans who are really dirty, commie, socialist, hippie, atheist, non-white, traitors and (fill in the blank)_________.
Repugnantklans love the fetus, but they hate the child.
Repugnantklans were against "death panels" before they were totally for them.
Repugnantklans were for job creation before they were for job elimination.
Repugnantklans were for "compassionate conservatism" (an oxymoron) before they looked up compassionate in the dictionary.
Repugnantklans were for trickle-down economics before they.... (Oh, wait! They're still for it)
Deterrence is the art of placing in the mind of the enemy the "fear" to attack!
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...does pence have? You would think with his fanatical views about women's reproductive issues, he'd be running an orphanage. Maybe he is and we don't know it? Maybe his real children run it...that must be it. Praise jeebus!
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
My mom and dad had one... me
And my pop was pro-choice until the day he died, and my Republican mother always has been.
So there, Pence!
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Pence is one of the one trick ponies who only panders to the religious right on one issue, abortion. I would like to hit him in the mouth with a wet sack of sh*t.
(Not that there is any thing wrong with that, but) I've figured Pence was gay for some time now.
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this pompous, intolerant idiot wants to be our Gov. here in Indiana. the teatard legislature under our man mitch has already passed an abortion bill that makes docs inform pregnant women that "abortion causes breast cancer:. which every cancer group says is not true! how much worse can it get? so where is their plan for livable child-welfare payment to women who make the so called "good choices"? such consistency of principles would be admirable.
gdcser. No way is this guy or his pals are into working pro bono publico. It's all about themselves. Sickening.
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The man,
the myth,
the Legendary Asshole.
I'm just amazed and apalled at what a moron and an asshole this guy is.
Afghanistan's treatment of women: they, like this clown Mike Pence, are jealous!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
This attack on Womens RIGHTS is so juvenile and distorted in addition to being vile and paternalistic that it harkens back to the middle ages! Who the hell does he think he is ..damn sure not a chrisitian!
I wish him an experience that makes him confront such a choice in his immediate family, quickly!
Doesn't he have something more important to do besides being the womb and vagina sheriff?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
...and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it."
Remember, folks: it's about ABORTION. When he uses the word 6 times in under 45 seconds, you'd almost think he was trying to sell us a Big Lie!
'Cause with all the changes you've been through, it seems the stranger's always you -- alone again in some new Wicked Little Town...
This guy really is a meathead. His head looks like a hunk of bologna sticking out of a suit.
far left loon >.<
The selfish and lazy women of America must be forced by any means necessary to produce more human resources, or die trying.
do shutdown the government because you want to lord over all the people. Because you were elected God and everyone must bow before your might.
Mike Pence is an embarrassment to thinking people in Indiana....
efforts to extort America, they will have to face the blowback that not even FOX Fraudcasting will be able to spin to look good. Go right ahead, assholes, shut down the government...let's just see how well that works for you sociopathic rat bastards.
And because there is no end to that pr**k I sent a donation to Planned Parenthood in his honor. I was going to send it in his memory but he probably would have taken that as a death threat. An acknowledgement will be sent to his office.I hope others can join me in helping PP and tweaking a pr**k.
I'm doing THAT!
me-oww!
God needs to tap this Boy on the shoulder and tell him that you cannot be pro-life and believe that the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.
Some people call this playing to the base. I call it masturbating in public.
I don't get what defunding PP has to do with balancing the budget. Women don't carry cash registers between their legs.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Hey, every potential life is a potential corporate drone or cannon fodder! Gotta keep 'em coming... not a cash register, but a cash generator... eesh... I know how that sounds, but...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
What makes me the most depressed about these people is that we elected them.
Before you hit reply, yes, I know I didn't literally vote for them, and probably you didn't either. But at some point "we" in the collective sense of citizens of this country actually decided to cast a ballot for these lowest dredges of what somehow passes for human.
Pence should not be in power. He is mentally unstable. He would literally help bring the apocalypse so that PP can be no more. He's an asshole...that was voted in by other assholes.
NOBODY 2012
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