Murray 'stunned' government might shutter over Planned Parenthood

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Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said Thursday that Republican pressure to include a rider to a budget deal defunding Planned Parenthood is “stunning” to her as a woman and that Senate leadership will not back down in their support of women’s health issues.

“I am really stunned. And I am angry as a woman that we have come to this after weeks of negotiating on numbers… that there are those in the Republican party in the House who are willing to shutdown the government, take people’s paychecks away from them because they want to deny women access to health care in this country,” Murray told reporters. “Every woman and every man in this country ought to be saying, ‘What are you doing?’”

Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said repeatedly Thursday that the spending talks between Senate Democrats, the White House and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) essentially have broken down in the 11th hour not over figures but over “ideology.”

Reid devoted much of his floor remarks, and then later statement in a press conference, to discussing the women’s health-based negotiations sticking point.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0411/Murray_stunned_government_might_shutter_over_Planned_Parenthood.html

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[seabeyond]

2. finally, i understand all the stuff about planned parenthood that bottom line for shutdown

took me a long time to get this info, and lots of threads. thanks

[Rex]

3. If you don't care about the future - vote for Reps.

If you want to keep hope alive - vote for Dems.

It is sad that the equation is that childlike and simple, but here we are. We have arrived at that point, again. Do we need another civil rights movement? Seriously, wth is it going to take to get people mad enough to stop voting against their best interests and start voting against the interests of Republicans? What?

Slavery? Child labor work camps?

What?

[BrklynLiberal]

4. There is no trick too dirty, or move too low, for the repukes.

They lie, they cheat, they mislead, they tell everyone it is raining and then pee on their shoes.

There is no compromising with them. They give nothing and want everything. They are the spoiled three-year-old brats of politics.

The only way to deal with them is to put one's foot down and resist any temptation to deal with them like adults.

Compromise and "bipartisanship" are jokes to the repukes. Even when ALL their terms are met 100%, they keep moving the football, and insist that the other side is not playing fair.

They all make me physically ill, as do those who talk about dealing with them. There is no dealing with them.

[rufus dog]

5. think back to the last shutdown

The final battles were over funding ......???

[pa28]

6. This has got to be a pretext. They want at least a brief shutdown as red meat to their base.

Obama and the Democrats appear to have given them all the cuts Republicans wanted even after the goalpost was moved. If Reid and the President give in again Boehner will just find some new "reason".