I doubt the Republicans will fight the abortion issue again. No one really wants to fight that again except for the religious nuts, and there are only so many of them.

Let that one rest. As much as it bothers me, I don't want to see that be fought again.

Well yeah I mean there is no reason from a political standpoint to change the status quo. The Repubs have the evangelicals locked up, where else are they going to go? If legal abortion was upended then you can't run against it. To me this is pretty much the essence of "identity" politics, find a group that will vote solidly in your favor when you share their goal but actually just have talking points and never really do anything to achieve the goal. Another more cynical way to put it is to find a group, lie to them shamelessly with the goal,of marginalizing them.

Republicans almost shut down the government over Planned Parenthood. They are going to pass restrictions on abortion. The love that ****.

Yes we do. You can count on it.

Before trump I wouldn't have believed a person didn't know what "or" meant, but it's a great new world.

Wait, wait, wait, so all this curb stomping talk was just about winning one single election bet?

Weird.

You're missing out.

trump2020: winning the battle of wits one curb stomp at a time

Planned Parenthood claims that they use no federal money to fund abortions. Federal funding for abortions is prohibited by what is commonly called the Hyde Amendment.

FactCheck on Planned Parenthood and federal funding for abortions

Quote:

Q: How much of Planned Parenthood’s services are dedicated to abortions? Does the federal government fund those procedures?
A: Abortions represent 3 percent of total services provided by Planned Parenthood, and roughly 10 percent of its clients received an abortion. The group does receive federal funding, but the money cannot be used for abortions by law.
FULL ANSWER
We received several questions on this topic during the recent budget debate in Congress, after Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl claimed this month on the Senate floor that "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does" is provide abortion services. That figure was wildly incorrect. Planned Parenthood says only 3 percent of its total services in 2009 were abortions. The other 97 percent of services were for contraception, treatment and tests for sexually transmitted diseases, cancer screenings, and other women’s health services.
Here’s a chart from a March 2011 fact sheet, which reported that the group performed about 11.4 million total services.

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Planned Parenthood’s chart shows that abortions made up 3 percent of its total services. Another way to measure the group’s abortion services, however, is to divide the total number of abortions by the number of clients. For example, Planned Parenthood said that it “provided nearly 11.4 million medical services for 3 million people” in 2009. Its 2011 fact sheet says it performed 332,278 abortion procedures in 2009. That would mean that roughly one out of every 10 clients received an abortion.
Taxpayer Funding
Planned Parenthood’s 2008-2009 annual report states that it received $363.2 million in "Government Grants and Contracts." (See page 29.) That’s about one-third of its total revenues for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009.
However, not all of that money is from the federal government. Planned Parenthood’s government funding comes from two sources: the Title X Family Planning Program and Medicaid. About $70 million is Title X funding, Planned Parenthood spokesman Tait Sye told us. The rest — about $293 million — is Medicaid funding, which includes both federal and state money.
But Planned Parenthood cannot use the money it receives from the federal government for abortions anyway. According to the Department of Health and Human Service’s website, "by law, Title X funds may not be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." Medicaid funding is restricted by the Hyde Amendment to only abortion cases involving rape, incest or endangerment to the life of the mother. Some states use their own funds under Medicaid to go beyond that. Seventeen states and, until recently, the District of Columbia pay for "medically necessary" abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. The federal budget deal now bans Washington, D.C., from using its funds to pay for abortions.

This looks like a whole lot of wil winning to me...this is what he sees when he checks the thread:



"We're going to win so much that we get tired of winning" - the next president of the United States!

It's kinda cruel what TS is doing to wil but I also find it amusing. Maybe that means I'm not a nice person.

Don't forget to take him off ignore again now you've made your claim.

Or maybe I'll quote him more often.

It's cruel but if wil weren't so gratuitously aggressive I'd feel more sorry for him.

The fact is that TS recruited him in such a clever (though evil) way that wil thinks he's his own man. And look who stands at the sidelines applauding every daft move wil makes: "That's my boy!"

Facts don't matter to Republicans.

Wil/TS bromance adds a fun vibe to this thread.

If anyone has a secret crush, it's 5ive. Look at this thread...

Come to think of it, is 5ive a girl? Perhaps wil's propensity for mushing got her interested...

This is actually exactly what I see. The more of it I see the more humorous it is.

Your sentiment here is way off base. If you haven't noticed, I've been hated for many years now. I find it amusing that all of a sudden you portray me as some sort of "yes man" to anyone, especially since I've openly disagreed with TS on quite a few occasions. We even differed on our opinion of the election bet, he thought I was the dog.

I've always spoken my own mind, that's why you guys dislike me so much. It gives you a target because you guys are sheep. You'll never disagree with the overall sentiment on anything because it puts you out there in a way you don't want to be. I have no issue with that, most of you are always rooting for me to lose or jump on me when attacked. It's OK.

I'd rather be disliked and right than liked and wrong, though.

I doubt many people here hate you; I think most find you quite funny.

Tell us more about how you're incapable of an original or thought-provoking idea!

I think you should read the types of responses I get to any opinion I write on anything. I could say I like strawberry ice cream and people will call me an idiot. Or racist for not liking chocolate.

Chocolate ice cream is superior, you ****ing idiot.

Pot, meet kettle.

Just confirming your intellectual dishonesty.

And it continues!