Relax—just business as usual here.
Planned Parenthood has now
stopped accepting those whopping $60 reimbursement payments it was taking for fetal tissue donations from the singular PP affiliate that was accepting them. But Republicans aren't taking the bait. Nope. Between their Planned Parenthood probe and Benghazi, who has time to find a new speaker or fund the government?
Sarah Ferris reports:
Top Republicans, including outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), are dismissing the move as a public relations gambit.
“While Planned Parenthood and other organizations may try to publicly distance themselves from the gruesome industry of selling of fetal baby parts, today’s announcement does not change the facts of the investigation,” Boehner wrote in a statement Tuesday.
The Speaker’s remarks were echoed by Republican anti-abortion leaders such as Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Diane Black of Tennessee and the chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee, Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz.
So much for the notion that John Boehner would do something consequential with his remaining days as speaker, which might actually number many more than he intended. He's just gonna sit back, sip some wine, and let the GOP merry-go-round to nowhere proceed apace.