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July 31, 2015 01:25 PM UTC

Gardner, Senate GOP Rush To Vote Against Planned Parenthood

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Sen. Cory Gardner.
Sen. Cory Gardner.

The Hill’s Jordain Carney reports:

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the Republican whip, suggested Wednesday that the Senate will take a vote on defunding Planned Parenthood on Monday.

“We’ll find out Monday night,” the Texas Republican told reporters on whether or not Republicans would be able to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a procedural hurdle.

Cornyn spoke with reporters after a press conference with a handful of Senate Republicans who pressed for legislation rolled out Tuesday that would cut off federal money for Planned Parenthood and redirect the funding to other women’s health groups…

Republicans have renewed their push to defund the agency in the wake of a string of controversial, hidden-camera videos. The third, released Tuesday, appeared to show a Planned Parenthood official in Colorado negotiating with someone posing as a buyer of fetal tissue.

In an interview earlier this week with 9NEWS, GOP Sen. Cory Gardner confirmed that he will vote to defund Planned Parenthood:

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) will be voting for the Paul amendment.

“I’m disgusted and deeply saddened by the recent videos released documenting highly unethical and inhumane practices committed by Planned Parenthood officials and affiliates,” Gardner said.

One problem with this rush to vote to defund Planned Parenthood is the “investigations” underway into selectively edited undercover videos that have circulated in recent weeks are not complete–not that we expect political investigations by Planned Parenthood’s avowed congressional enemies to produce any outcome other than wholesale condemnation anyway. But to push forward with a vote to punish Planned Parenthood without even finishing their biased inquiries broadcasts that this response was a foregone conclusion from the beginning.

That should tell you something very important about this latest campaign against Planned Parenthood, which is hardly the first–looking back, we can recall other attempts to scandalize this organization, also in the lead-up to a general election year as we are now. Even though none of the videos released so far validate the accusation that Planned Parenthood is being illegally compensated for voluntary fetal tissue donations, they are already guilty in the eyes of social conservatives just for being Planned Parenthood. With that in mind, these videos are merely a pretext for actions that conservatives would gladly take, and have taken with or without pretext.

And that should tell you something important about Sen. Cory Gardner, who you’ll recall the pundits assured us last fall “would pose no threat to abortion rights.” Here is just the latest evidence of what a bald-faced lie that was–and it won’t be the last.

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8 thoughts on “Gardner, Senate GOP Rush To Vote Against Planned Parenthood

  1. I wish the Denver Post could be held accountable for the Gardner endorsement, but they'll probably be out of business before then.

    Hey wait, maybe that's accountability too.

  2. I'll call Gardner's office, and leave my message with his ever-so-polite staffers. Does anyone know what these TeaPublicans do with all those messages from their non-teapublican constituents? Straight into the recycle bin or what?

    Just in case you want to contact Cory, too:

    1. Recycle bin? Well, there's a lefty idea if they ever heard one. No, messages from those people go straight into the trash, to be sent to a landfill as the Republican God intended.

  3. What I find disgusting is Gardner's continuing contempt for the truth.  His endorsement of a sleazy smear campaign by an organization with zero credibility and a hidden agenda, through the use of heavily-edited videos against an honorable organization that saves thousands of lives a year through affordable and accessible healthcare, just goes to prove Con Man Cory is a shameless liar.

     

    1. "Gardner's continuing contempt for the truth." That says it in a nutshell. The funny thing is that the most conservative Tea Party folks think the same thing about Cory, just from the opposite side of the issue. They're mad at him for being too waffly and moderate on birth control and abortion. Imagine that for a second.

      Maybe the purpose for this video sting  of PP was to get everybody back on board hating the Dems, and feeling righteous about it. 

      1. Since Personhood fails anywhere it is brought up, only underhanded tactics like this might seem to promote their anti-(actually, No-)choice agenda.

        And Gardner is more than happy to spew whatever words he thinks will promote Cory's ambitions.  I sometimes wonder if he has any deeply held beliefs other than in himself.

        1. I've known him a long time, Davie.

          I would say… no. It seems to me, all of Corys' deeply held beliefs (he has some, I think)are rooted in egocentrism.

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