Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS)
There's
some rumbling behind the scenes at Congress that Republican leadership might have an idea for not shutting down the government over Planned Parenthood funding. The talk now is that the House would go first with a continuing resolution that did not include the PP funding, send it to the Senate which would put it back in, and back at the House, it would pass with Democratic votes. That's reasonable. Except that it's clearly a plan to keep the government open and Planned Parenthood funded. And House extremists
will have none of that.
"I cannot and will not fund a vile, racist organization who specializes in convincing mothers to kill their children and then selling their baby parts to the highest bidder," Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) said in a written statement to TPM Tuesday. "During the funding debate two years ago, Mitch McConnell finagled a $2.8 billion dam for his home state. And now when it comes to keeping his pro-life campaign promises, I’m pretty certain he still knows how the process works."
Anything Boehner does in cahoots with McConnell is not going to be acceptable. It's a mutual destruction pact the House extremists have cooked up with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). So leadership thinks they can demonstrate to these people that there's no way they can defund Planned Parenthood? They have to think again. This is not a crowd that will be convinced by reality.