Motionless Friday

We have a stalemate in Libya matched by a stalemate in Washington.  Fortunately, NATO, or at least the FAA, has intervened in the latter:

FAA sets up no-fly zone for Obama's planned trip to Williamsburg

Let's hope they can minimize civilian casualties.  Every time Obama travels I worry that someone will hurt themselves laughing...

Comments

[May Day.]

Air control, air control. Help, I can't breathe.
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[Jim Ryan]

Right nearby is MUST SEE AIRSHOW every Sunday. Come on down! Bunch of old pilots with a half-dozen WWII planes and a landing strip. They put on a WWII theme show, loop-the-loops, wing walkers, parachutists, etc., and they sell rides (either with loops or without). I'm taking my boys and a WWII pilot to the show on May 1. Children and small adults can have a ride in Piper Cub or a Champ with my boys' flight-instructor Chuck Tippett, a great guy.

[Janet]

If funding Planned Parenthood is the hold up, then why don't Gwyneth Paltrow & the assorted Hollywood fans of PP donate to cover it?
Why must my family pay to kill babies? If that is their "charity" interest...then let them fund it.

[MayBee]

If funding Planned Parenthood is the hold up, then why don't Gwyneth Paltrow & the assorted Hollywood fans of PP donate to cover it?

I find it fascinating that this president has pushed the idea of limiting the tax deduction for charitable giving. He really seems to want the government to choose the charities worth supporting.

[Extraneus]

Has anyone heard of Ann Barnhardt having any trouble after her YouTube posting, or needing a volunteer bodyguard?

[narciso]

I don't know about that, but Wolcott, has a cow over her statements, or more likely he budded.

[Captain Hate]

Yes Maybee; it flies in the face of citizens here being so generous to charities and seems actively opposed to it. Milton Friedman's belief in "Free to Choose" seems to be heresy to Toonces.

[Captain Hate]

Great line narc.

[Janet]

Here's her blog Extraneus. You can keep an eye on her! :)

[matt]

Washington Wars vs Real Wars. LUN

[Jim Ryan]

Janet, I see this Barnhardt is calling for a West-Cain ticket on her blog.

West-Cain '12
We Could Do Hell of a Lot Worse!

[Janet]

Here is my Congressman...Jim Moran. What a loathsome man.

[Jim Ryan]

Nuts. Sorry.

[Extraneus]

Thanks, Janet. Looks like she has it covered.

[Janet]

Yeah Jim. She's my new hero. Thanks for the airshow link...I bookmarked it. Maybe we'll give it a try one long weekend.

[Extraneus]

Be gone, except in Firefox 3.x.

[Army of Davids]

Greek columns again for the Democratic Convention in Charlotte?

Seems appropriate.

[Janet]

How did you do that Extraneus?

[Extraneus]

Post a pic?

[FedsUptoHere]

Every day I am somehow able to be surprised by how selfish and stupid the new Democratic Party has become. They just keep surpassing themselves. Today, its the budget. What abomination will be next?

[Extraneus]

Kill italics?

[Janet]

Kill italics. I've already got old posts from you on how to post pics. You may not realize it, but you are a teacher.

[Frau Frohlocken]

Janet, a complaint was voiced yesterday that a teacher's health would be "endangered" if the health plan did not cover birth control. Why should we pay for someone else's farking contraception?

[Janet]

just put in < / i > ? (with no spaces)

[Army of Davids]

Which sounds better?

"The Incompetent One" or "Obama the Incompetent"?

I'm partial to the latter. More a Larry the Cable Guy feel than the Alexander the Great grandiosity of one who steps down from between Greek columns at a Democratic Convention....

But still...

"Obama the Incompetent" has a ring.

Maybe it can be scripted in on his Nobel Peace Prize and under his likeness on Mount Rushmore.

[Janet]

Why should we pay for someone else's farking contraception?

I don't know. :( It's crazy what some citizens think they are owed. We need just straight-up pay & everyone buys what they want. No more perks or plans...just a salary.

[sablegsd]

I have been blogging for West/Cain for a few weeks now. When I grow up I wanna be just like Ann. :)

[James D]

Here is my Congressman...Jim Moran. What a loathsome man.

He's my Congressman, too, and "loathsome" doesn't begin to cover it. When I saw him on the 6 AM news this morning, I blurted out, involuntarily, "You're a f*cking criminal, and you should go to prison for 100,000 years!"

I think I was being too lenient there.

[lyle]

Which sounds better?

"The Incompetent One" or "Obama the Incompetent"?

Isn't either a synecdoche?

[clarice]

wish they'd resolve this already. I'm trying to get the column in.

[narciso]

I think Ozymandias has already been used as a metaphor right, or is he Commodus.

[Extraneus]

Yeah, Janet. You can do two or three of those close italics tags just to be sure.

[anduril]

Things may not be motionless in the ME. Some think we may be seeing the beginning of a big new Israeli offensive against Gaza, using Libya as a distraction. Apropos of which...

In The Goldstone Chronicles Roger Cohen discovers that we have a new verb in the English language: To Goldstone.

We have a new verb, “to Goldstone.” Its meaning: To make a finding, and then partially retract it for uncertain motive. Etymology: the strange actions of a respected South African Jewish jurist under intense pressure from Israel, the U.S. Congress and world Jewish groups.

Richard Goldstone is an author of the “Goldstone Report,” an investigation of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza between December 2008 and January 2009. It found that Israel had engaged in a “deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population,” for which responsibility lay “in the first place with those who designed, planned, ordered and oversaw the operations.” It said both Israel and Hamas may have committed crimes against humanity in a conflict that saw a ratio of about 100 Palestinian dead (including many children) for every one Israeli.

Now Goldstone’s volte-face appears in the form of a Washington Post op-ed. It’s a bizarre effort. ...

His shift is attributed to the findings of a follow-up report by a U.N. committee of independent experts chaired by Mary McGowan Davis, a former New York judge, and what is “recognized” therein about Israeli military investigations. Well, Goldstone and I have not been reading the same report.

McGowan Davis is in fact deeply critical of those Israeli investigations ...

In short there is a mystery here. Goldstone has moved but the evidence has not, really. That raises the issue of whether the jurist buckled under pressure so unrelenting it almost got him barred from his grandson’s bar mitzvah in South Africa. Is this more a matter of judicial cojones than coherence?

The fact that Hamas has not conducted any investigation into its unconscionable attacks on southern Israel — rockets and mortars still fall — is appalling if unsurprising. Goldstone makes much of this. But it does not change the nature of what Israel did in Gaza, nor allay the McGowan Davis concerns about Israel’s investigative failings.

Goldstone, a Jew who takes his Jewishness seriously, has been pilloried by Israel. He fell afoul, as perhaps no other, of the siege mentality of a nation controlling the lives of millions of Palestinians but unsure what to do with them or with the world’s growing disavowal of this corrosive dominion that humiliates its victims and eats into the soul of its masters.

...

Israel is celebrating what it calls a vindication. It is preparing to welcome Goldstone. It is demanding nullification of the report, even though Goldstone is only one of its four authors. Meanwhile the facts remain: the 1,400 plus Palestinian dead, the 13 Israelis killed, the devastation, the Hamas rockets — and the need for credible investigation of what all evidence suggests were large-scale, indiscriminate, unlawful Israeli attacks in Gaza, as well as Hamas’ crimes against civilians.

[pagar]

"What abomination will be next?

"Kill italics"

I understand it is really important to the leftists to be able to kill inconvenient children, but now they are going to get passionate about killing italics? Come on!

[anduril]

Re defunding Planned Parenthood, one problem I see is not with the defunding but with the GOPers. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe I've seen anyone in the GOPer leadership defending the defunding - hey, I like that! - on moral grounds. That leaves the Dems to attack the defunding on pseudo-moral grounds. IMO, that means the GOPers are dealing from a position of weakness, since a moral cause always resonates more with the public than a strictly fiscal one. And this in spite of the fact that a moral defense of the defunding would resonate far more widely than the transparent and disgusting Dem pre-planned posturing.

[Jim Ryan]

Harry Reid: small, softspoken, unhappy man who likes to beat the daylights out of strangers when it's permissible.

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

I'm only posting this to make the page go faster.

[mrt]

"FAA sets up no-fly zone for Obama's planned trip to Williamsburg"

Will they be handing it off to NATO
after the first hour?

[JM Hanes]

I find it almost impossible to believe Obama would tee up Planned Parenthood as the defining issue, should a CR including it actually land on his desk -- especially with military pay on the table -- so I'd guess Harry Reid must have made an absolute commitment to killing that rider in the Senate.

It could prove almost as damaging for Boehner to be cast as the bad guy holding military pay "hostage" to Planned Parenthood too. It may put him between a rock and a hard place with his caucus, but I don't see how he can refuse to strip it out -- and live to fight another day. I doubt the Dems are really willing to risk an incendiary presidential veto, so they must be confident that Boehner is going to have to acquiesce. When you're desperate for virtually anything you can spin as a "victory," this probably looks like an easy call.

Republicans really have a lot more at stake here as champions of fiscal responsibility than Democrats do. Obama is planning to campaign on trust -- which makes it a significant issue for Republicans too. If the public sees them using financial legislation as a vehicle for playing chicken on social issues, their credibility as serious fiscal reformers, and the sine qua non plank of their own campaign platform, will take a potentially debilitating hit.

[anduril]

John Fund takes out after Nickolaus:

Ms. Nickolaus ought to resign her position out of a sense of shame. An independent investigation is called for, if for no other reason than to clear the air and to recommend procedures to ensure such errors don't happen again. Just as many Wisconsin officials have ignored or downplayed evidence of vote fraud (see the Milwaukee Police Department's 2008 detailed investigation) so too have sloppy election procedures been allowed to fester in some counties.

If the mistake was innocent, it resulted from a lack of transparency. Ms. Nickolaus has long been criticized for keeping her county's election data on private office computers that are not part of the county network. But of equal concern is her decision to no longer report the individual breakdown of results from cities in her county on her office's website. If she had, everyone could have seen that the city of Brookfield was listed as reporting that no votes had been cast. In addition, Ms. Nickolaus's office never reported what percentage of the county's vote had been counted at any point on election night.

Ms. Nickolaus still hasn't provided a full explanation of what happened, but the public deserves answers. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says she ended the prior clerk's practice of reporting election results for individual cities because it was "not her responsibility" and she didn't "have the staff to enter all the data that's required for such reporting." That is an absurd excuse. Many smaller Wisconsin counties are able to post such data on their websites and provide proper transparency.

Conspiracy theories about what happened in Waukesha will flood the Internet. But Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, says she is "satisfied [that the new numbers] are correct" and that there has been no manipulation of the data.

Even so, this should be a wake-up call for the state's election officials. It's time that Wisconsin update its election laws for the 21st century.

While it all seems pretty inarguable, I think the first priority should be re voter ID.

[JM Hanes]

"In The Goldstone Chronicles Roger Cohen discovers that we have a new verb in the English language: To Goldstone."

Cue up The Princess Bride.

[Janet]

I'm only posting this to make the page go faster.

Hahahah...if the italics are already off ( in FF4) then that post looks so...weird! Hah!

You can do two or three of those close italics tags just to be sure.
Thank you.

[JM Hanes]

anduril:

You are so transparent! I know exactly what you're trying to set up here. In fact, I can picture you actually salivating as you wait for the hue and cry.

[daddy]

JMH,

Caught a few minutes of Chris Mathews and his guests Howard Fineman and some Howard Fineman clone last night. Both guys said they thought that Boehner will come out of some meeting looking all sweaty and defeated after having agreed to some compromise, and that that will destroy Boehner, but that Obama will waltz out looking cool and calm and reassuring, and will be the winner because of how cool and calm and confident he looks. Then Matthews said something like "Gee, you guys are really really smart. I think that too."

[macphisto]

"I understand it is really important to the leftists to be able to kill inconvenient children, but now they are going to get passionate about killing italics?"

first they came for the italics, but i didn't speak out because i was plain text. next they came for the Helveticae, but i said nothing because i had serifs. finally they came for me, and i tried to cry out, but everyone else had been deleted.

[narciso]

btw, that witch hunt, ginned up by that credentialed moron, Bardach, in El Paso, by
the administration of Bill Ayers business partner, which won't go after the Panthers, or even death threats in Wisconsin, epic fail.

[narciso]

This is what I was referring to,

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7513316.html

[Jack is Back!]

Mayday an appropriate call sign for this AF1.

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

LOL Macphisto

[Ignatz]

--In fact, I can picture you actually salivating as you wait for the hue and cry.--

JMH,
Do you mean the hue and cry that results from describing Israel being on the receiving end of Hamas missiles and rockets and mortars as the beginning of a big new Gaza offensive?
Or the one that results from saying that they are "using Libya as a distraction", as if acts of war by Hamas on their own country aren't enough of a "distraction" for Israel to defend itself?

[anduril]

Matt Dowd warns: Democrats: Be Careful What You Wish For With Shutdown:

1-At the beginning of the shutdown, Clinton’s Gallup job approval numbers were 6 to 7 points higher than Obama’s today. A much better place to communicate from for Clinton.

2-Republicans held both branches of Congress in 1995 and so the clarity of blame was much easier than today when only the House is controlled by Republicans.

3-The unemployment rate in 1995 going into the shutdown was 5.6 percent, down nearly two points since Clinton took office. And while the unemployment rate has dropped a bit in last few months, it sits at 8.8 percent, higher than when Obama took office. In 1995, folks were relatively satisfied with Clinton’s handling of the economy, today voters are very dissatisfied with Obama’s handling of it, and anxiety and dismay persist through the country.

4-Going into the shutdown in 1995, the budget deficit was approximately $150 billion and had been cut in half since Clinton took office. Today the deficit is nearly 10 times higher than 1995 and has nearly doubled since Obama has been in office.

5-Republicans were led in 1995 by a very polarizing and offputting figure (former House Speaker Newt Gingrich) and it was much easier for Clinton to demonize him. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is relatively unknown to most Americans and comes across much less divisive.

[anduril]

Ross Kaminsky comments re WI, etc.:

One has to wonder, after blowing millions in union dues money on this race, and after perhaps $10 million incinerated in a failed attempt to beat Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln in a primary challenge after Lincoln came out against "card check," when the average union man or woman will revolt, even a little bit, against their money being wasted like this. Still, at the level of the union bosses this is an existential battle for their power and they won't give up until the last of their members has been sacrificed on the altars of "social justice" and "soaking the rich." Too bad it's really the rank and file being soaked.

[Jane]

BTW won't Williamsburg shut down in a Gvt shutdown?

[JM Hanes]

LOL, macphisto. I fear I must admit to anti-Helveticism, but as a Palatino they've pretty much come for me already.

[Dvorak forever.]

They'll kern my font when they melt it from the cold, dead, slugs which support it.
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[Jack is Back!]

Jane,

I think Williamsburg is a private foundation (Rockefeller?).

[Jack is Back!]

Jane,

I posted a response to you but don't see it. Williamsburg is a private foudation thanks to John D. Rockefeller. Not government. Only Potus to not visit have been JFK and to know The Wanker in Chief.

[sablegsd]

macphisto

That needed a spew alert.

[centralcal]

macphisto - very clever and funny!

[Janet]

Schumer: Senate Will 'Never, Never, Never' Defund Planned Parenthood...

The attached video is almost unwatchable. Who is the smiling idiot man behind Schumer waving a "Stand up for women's health" sign? I just keep hearing Ann Barnhardt's phrase - "You Jackass".
Again, can't these people fund their own baby murdering "charity"?

[Janet]

Here is the forgotten attached video.

[centralcal]

Oh boy. I saw this on Twitter and thought it might be a linky to Clarice's recent Pieces, but noooooooo noooooooo nooooooo!

The Blaze: Do These Pics Show Obama’s Had Brain Surgery? Wacky New Theory Says ‘Yes’ http://tblz.us/i4QW3O

[Sue]

If Boehner isn't willing to shut the government down today, we stand absolutely no chance of winning the larger fight on deficits. We have nothing to barter with if we aren't willing to shut-er-down.

[clarice]

Yes, cc--another website seems to have stolen stuff without attribution. And the Daily Mail ran with it.

[Cecil Turner]

You are so transparent!

I would say "invisible," actually. (And I'm very happy with 4.0's italics non-persistence, though I miss the monkey smiling at me.)

[caro]

macphisto! brilliant.

jmh,today I am a Caslon.

[Army of Davids]

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August von Hayek

[Janet]

"Gergen repeatedly argued that the amount of funding Planned Parenthood receives is negligible, and the battle can be fought at another time."

Scarlett Johanson pleads for PP. Why doesn't she just give them her own money?
If the amount is negligible...then Paltrow & Johanson & Schumer & the guy smilin' behind Schumer should be able to cover it.

[JM Hanes]

Clarice or Chaco! Help me please!

I've been going crazy having to opt out of the Tatler's default email notifications with every lousy comment, and now somehow I must have missed one or clicked in the wrong place on the incredibly annoying, confusing, solicitation that confronts me every time I visit.

The worst of it though, is that I got signed up for notifications at the brand new email address I just specifically set up to avoid bulk mail, and I can't find any way to opt back out before it gets thoroughly compromised.

Please, I'm beggin ya! What to do? What to do?

[anduril]

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.

True, however in democratic times the big gainers are often not people actually in government but the financial powers who select the government: Wall Street, the bankstas, etc.

[Jane]

Caro,

I keep getting packages from NRO. Are you getting them?

[Jane]

I wish someone on our side would point out that "healthcare" is now code for "abortion".

What idiots these people are.

[anduril]

Heh. BOTW points out this gem from Dave Weigel of Slate:

It's now likely that conservatives will retain their advantage on the court. Democrats can turn their guns on the recall efforts, with new vigor that's going to be informed by a sense--spread pretty widely on Twitter--that Kloppenburg was robbed.

Says BOTW:

Weigel certainly gives new meaning to the word "informed."

[Ann]

Someone needs to distribute copies of Obama's
Executive Order Restricting Federal Funds for Abortion in Obamacare . I thought we already won this battle

How many ways do the taxpayers have to fund these poor stupid women, SCHIP, unions, Obamacare, PP?

And while we are being accused of killing women, MO is going shopping in Williamsburg.

That article says she is going to Europe next month.

[anduril]

That article says she is going to Europe next month.

Drudge will have a field day with that if there is a shutdown.

[JM Hanes]

Sue:

"If Boehner isn't willing to shut the government down today, we stand absolutely no chance of winning the larger fight on deficits."

I'm not at all sure that's the case, but I think shutting the government down over Planned Parenthood could be suicidal. And even if the paltry sum involved alone weren't bad enough, the onus for giving that issue priority over paying the troops cuts both ways -- and should.

I think the government has absolutely no business funding abortions, either politically or morally, but I can't possibly image a worse time to pick that fight.

[maryrose]

Williamsburg trip is off. Obama not going.Reid and Schumer lie about the funding of PP. Boehner still says it is about spending cuts.

[Ann]

Does anyone know if the Obama shutdown will continuing paying his czars?

[maryrose]

Ann:
I would Definitely call those unelected people and unconfirmed hangers on.as dispensable.

[narciso]

Well we know the character of the man, who would spare PP, and let the troops suffer;

https://www.facebook.com/notes/sarah-palin/commander-in-chiefs-appalling-action-with-our-troops/10150150273028435

[Janet]

Heaven forbid the elected officials do what the people that elected them desire. Abortion is legal...fine, but do we all have to pay for it?
When Dems are elected they push through their agenda with a bulldozer no matter the consequence. They might get voted out, but their agenda stands. Republicans get into power & then just chip at the Dem advancement...hardly ever pushing back hard.

I know it is hard when the MFM is caterwauling, but at some point the conservatives have to not only make a stand, but roll back a lot of this liberal crap.
Not just cut a million here or there,but get rid of the whole d*#n program.

[Extraneus]

I miss the monkey smiling at me

Me too.

[Danube of Thought]

"I think shutting the government down over Planned Parenthood could be suicidal."

At the very least it's not very smart. The time and place to de-fund PP is in next year's budget, if at this point the issue has become shutdown or de-fund.

Isn't NATO a well-oiled fighting machine?

[JM Hanes]

narciso:

I think it was pretty disingenuous for Palin to avoid any mention of Planned Parenthood.

[JM Hanes]

Janet:

"Heaven forbid the elected officials do what the people that elected them desire."

Republicans weren't swept into office to defund Planned Parenthood.

[Sue]

I'm not at all sure that's the case, but I think shutting the government down over Planned Parenthood could be suicidal.

I doubt we ever find out because I don't see Boehner shutting down the government. Too bad. I think we win this one.

If I were Boehner I'd go on the air and say no deal. And all these "non-essentials" that will be let off at the close of business tonight, good luck finding your way back onto the government payroll.

But I'm not Boehner.

[Jane]

I think they have a deal. Dems go to 0 billion, Boehner takes out PP defunding.

[Sue]

JMH,

They were elected to stop waste and fraud. I can't think of a bigger waste and a bigger fraud than PP. This really shouldn't be about abortions since the government doesn't doesn't fund abortions. /sarc

[DrJ]

I just got my multipage email message from NIH on how they will handle things if the government shuts down. Little of it affects me personally, since payment requests are automated and will be maintained. The rest of the things that are brewing easily can wait.

[Ignatz]

--Republicans weren't swept into office to defund Planned Parenthood.--

Weren't they swept into office to defund all stupid and wasteful government spending, or were they swept in to only defund what the Dems will happily allow them to?
How are the Repubs shutting the government down over PP anyway? It is one small cut among many too small cuts. It is the Dems who have said we'll agree to every one but that one.
The Republicans should be shouting from the rooftops that the Dems are shutting down the government to support an abortion organization that rakes in hundreds of millions besides the government bailout by performing illegal abortions on underage girls, all at the expense of our troops in the field and poor seniors and [heavy sigh] the children.

[maryrose]

Sue:
I think they will live to fight another day on PP. The Ryan budget for 2012 would like give block grants to the states to handle PP. Dems hate that because they want to keep it at a federal level so they can in fact fund abortions. However what has happened in the debate is that PP NPR and PBS have been put on notice. They need to find alternative funding fast because if a repub wins in 12 their funding is gone. Reps will Deem it gone so they better get ready.

[Ranger]

I heard on the radio that the EU is thinking about sending troops to Misrata to protect the population and distribute emergency suplies. This is starting to look more and more like Bosnia every day.

We are going to let Europe lead. We won't use enough force to actually achieve a military result. And, after a year or two of applying enough force to keep the suffering going, but never enough to actually end it, some deal with be negotiated that lets the people who started the whole thing stay in power.

[Sue]

Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 million electing Democrats last cycle

Per the Washington Examiner. How many abortions were they not able to perform because they sent money to democrats instead of the ***sob*** women?

[Extraneus]

Did the left media try and succeed at portraying Boehner as the Gingrich Who Stole Christmas? No. Is Obama as likeable as Clinton? No.

This is a whole different deal than 1995. Boehner can truthfully say "The Democrats, and that includes the President, are shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood, of all things; an organization which gets funding from many non-government entities. But the Democrats would use any excuse to shut down the government, because they think it's a political win. They've made sure we reached this point, and have been maneuvering these negotiations into this shutdown all along. Meanwhile, we're just trying to find a way to rein in spending. Their position is clearly irresponsible, and I would hope the American people put the responsibility for the shutdown clearly on the Democrats, as they should. We've passed multiple bills that would have kept the government funded. The Democrats have obstructed us at every turn, and the president threatens to veto a bill funding the military! Please send the Democrats a message that you're against this partisan politics over such a critical issue."

[Sue]

Maryrose,

They are freaking out because they won't have a million dollars to send to democrats for re-election. It is always about the money. And abortions. They could actually care less about the women or the unborn children they are ripping from the womb.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

My computer has been down all day, so I haven't caught up. Just wanted to say that Tiger tore up the golf course today ending with a 66 for the day. Love the Masters, even though I'm not really a golfer.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

I feel so out of it, but I did hear Slaughter say on the news that the Republicans want to kill women.

[Hugh Dudgeon]

I miss the monkey smiling.

I run 4.0 and my monkey is smiling right now.

[Jane]

My last should have said 2 billion. Dems increase the cuts by 2 billion and Boehner drops the PP part.

[Janet]

Republicans weren't swept into office to defund Planned Parenthood.

Really? That is pretty much why I vote Republican. I want our fed. govt. to STOP SPENDING. I want them to close programs & end funding for thousands of things that the fed. govt. has no business being involved in.