“What sort of cowards would choose to lose a transformational battle such as this? And what sort of idiot would reelect them?”

To answer your first question, its the kind of cowards who don’t feel any pressure from their congressional district in terms of any uptick in the number of conservative Republicans who have come into the Party in the precinct committeeman ranks who might coalesce with the other conservative PCs already in the Party so as to help Get Out The Vote in the primary elections for a more conservative, more principled, “non-professional politician” challenger.

In answer to your second question, “What sort of idiot would reelect them?”, as you know Republicans turn out in pathetic numbers in the primary elections. In Delaware in 2006, for example, 8 per cent turned out in the Republican primary. Here in Arizona, we typically get around 20 per cent in the Republican primary. But, those “idiotic” percentages are a huge opportunity for us conservatives. Assuming we all come into the Party as precinct committeemen and then vote to endorse primary challengers. And the help Get Out The Vote for those primary challengers.

Alas, most conservative Republicans, it seems, prefer to do other things with their time.

Thank you.

ColdWarrior

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…does one reach Cantor, Noem and McCarthy? I was certainly able to reach Noem when she needed money, but now you can’t email them with out being one of their “constituency!” Can anyone tell me how to send an email?

What’s a few hundred thousand babies when it comes to the possibility that the government — the United States Government — might not run for a while? And with that possibility comes the chance that John Boehner and Mitch McConnell might get blamed for it.

There are larger issues at stake than mere human life. There are partisan political points to be made, a proper defense to be raised.

Why, we can’t expect the Democrats to let us stop the government from funding abortion and let us stop funding anything else, can we? They might try to block coal mining in Kentucky or Ohio.

We are assured by Planned Parenthood that they keep their abortion money completely separate from their non-abortion money. And if the government cut off funds, PP would have to raise money itself. You don’t want a bunch of Planned Parenthood ads all over the place, do you?

And by continuing to fund abortions with federal money, we can keep this issue alive (so to speak) for 2012.

Besides, It’s not like the taxpayers are paying for all of this stuff. 40% of this money is borrowed from our kids. Well, our kids and China, and the Chinese kind of like abortion. So I don’t know what you people are worried about.

Oh, and one last thing. Aren’t a lot of those kids just black anyway? And poor? Not really all that human, when you get right down to it.

Is Cantor French for anything?

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Last I heard they were talking about “cutting” it, not defunding it. The stupidity and weakness on our part is amazing.

Every time I read about him it is like he is channeling John McCain.

There’s no excuse for not cutting this out of the budget. If they want to continue to operate their “clinics”, they should raise their money from the donations of people who support their cause.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vkTQErQWko

That’s the site, set up by Cantor, where all of “You” were supposed to be able to propose cuts in government expenditures. Well, I tried, on several occasions to propose cuts to PP funding. For some reason, it never showed up in the YouCut site. I checked back later a few times, and PP cuts were never included among the proposals. I found it very hard to believe that not one of “You” proposed cuts to PP. I knew I had. Very fishy. Haven’t been back since. Cantor never did seem like his heart was into the whole not-killing-babies-in-the-womb thing.

Why should the American taxpayer be forced to pay for abortions?

that unless he gets in the face of these Clintonesque liars, his organization is toast. Nobody will contribute to a conservative Republican ever again.

It is time that these nimrods are held accountable. Boehner skated on his appointments to committee heads; it is time to hold him either accountable or retired. HE can make the choice.

Isn’t this one of those rare cases where both fiscal and social conservative agree? The social conservatives don’t like PP. The fiscal conservatives don’t like paying for PP.

And on top of this all, wouldn’t the Dems look very bad by shutting down the government to protect funding for abortion?

I would rather see the government shutdown than have the PP funding continue. And, (as some have guessed), I’m a federal employee. Shutting down the abortuaries is more important.

Besides, its largely a false choice anyways. Take the funding out and force the Dems to be the ones to shut down or not. They will back down. McCaskill in the Senate has already capitulated. Others will surely follow. The Dems will not let the government shut down to show they are the party saving abortion funding. If they did, it would be the end of them.

You just do not get it, do you? You have placed yourself in a political bubble, always trying to calculate how your next move will play out in the media.

When will you take a stand on principle? As many people in this thread have stated, this is an issue that unites both fiscal and social conservatives. Regardless of people’s opinion on abortion, we can all agree that the federal government should NOT fund Planned Parenthood or any similar organization!

Cantor, this is not hard!

How naive!

How absolutely Pollyannish!!

They are now firmly in position thanks to your hard work…and they can’t be expected to stick by anything they said to the poor saps who voted for them!

There’s serious work to be done now and we don’t have the luxury of standing by silly concepts like Honor, or integrity…and principles are for pie in the sky dreamers…

Move along now kids…the adults are in charge…thatnks for the votes and all the hard work….but the adults will take it from here…

Than you very much!

The best way to divest the taxpayers of Federal program bloat, be that Planned Parenthood, Dept of Education, HeadStart, or HandoutsRUs not for Congress to directly defund them. This puts the fiscally responsible CongressCritters on the frontlines, where they’ll get chewed up by the PRESSSSident and others…

Rather, offer these programs a pathway for conversion into NGOs with the option for taxpayers to direct a portion of their tax dollars directly to these various NGOs. Not a tax deduction, but a full tax credit. Let those who want to support these programs have that opportunity. Let these programs (NGOs) take there case to the people to get support — PBS does it with success. Let the taxpayers make the tough choices… If the liberals want to support PP, then let them have their way. Ditto for the Department of Education, and Energy, Headstart and more…

My guess is liberals will quickly find out it’s not so easy to spend their own money to keep these dogs going… Just don’t tell them that to start with… Start with a few choice demonstration programs like PBS and PP that will easily meet their goals — then pile on more and more of the waste and duplicated programs…

Also, provide some simple rules that if the program fails to meet certain goals in terms of taxpayer support, they lose their tax credit status and are totally on their own… Which means they could still survive with tax deductible donations…

Do the same with earmarks… If someone happens to come up with a good one that people find useful and grows — what’s the problem? Let the social marketplace and taxpayers sort out the nation’s fiscal problems. Anyone doubt that taxpayers can get this done a lot quicker than politicians.

It’s our country, it’s our taxes, let the productive taxpayers have a bigger say in nation’s direction — and quickly it will get back to the dynamically prosperous and compassionate nation it should be…

He is a bold-faced liar who finds fiscal and social conservatism when it suits him politically but he won’t fight for either as a practical matter.

If the GOP stands for nothing else, it should always stand for the rights of the unborn. Planned Parenthood are butchers, short and simple.

This is yet another reason I hate the Republican Party now. They never, NEVER follow through on anything they promise.

$100 billion in budget cuts – NOPE
Defunding of Planned Parenthood – NOPE
NPR being defunded – Haven’t heard anything so likely NOPE

You are a bunch of unethical, unprincipled cowards, GOP. Keep enjoying not getting me to the polls ever again. As in the last election cycle, any $ I spend go to Tea Party candidates only. I hope you collapse as a major party because you deserve it you gutless wonders.

I have long believed that politicians in general, and Republicans in particular, live by one of Napoleon’s primal beliefs wherein he quotes, “If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing”
My only hope is that one day, each of these recreants will be, “Hoisted by his own petard”.

They know they were NOT put in office to shut down the government. Most voters just aren’t as political as the commenters on this blog. Most of the votes that republicans will need are going to have to come from people whose main interest is the economy, jobs and healthcare. Most voters are not as ideological as many of you want to think they are. People are afraid of the future, and talk of governnment shutdowns, massive cuts to education and you name it, will kill future republicans chances at the ballot box.

With a majority in the House, if establishment Republicans can hold it together, and gains in the Senate, with more to come, Republicans can control the legislative agenda, even if they just keep sending things to Reid which he won’t pass or to Obama which he vetoes. Just explain to the American people how each piece of legislation is good for them or the country and let the failure to pass them keep piling up at the feet of Reid and Obama until 2012.

Also, what you can’t get passed outright, deconstruct and pass piece-meal.

Just don’t stop, don’t blink, don’t be timid and don’t waste the advantages the wave election of November 2010 gave you. If you do, if you find ways to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, you will also pay a price in 2012, along with the rest of us.