Clearly Planned Parenthood can't be trusted with fungible funds

[Tom Rinaldo]

That must be it. Because Republicans don't worry about the fungibility of money when Federal Election Laws are involved, not like with the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment. When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce solicited donations from foreign companies and governments and then threw that money into the same checking account that they wrote campaign contribution from in 2010, THAT wasn't a problem. Using foreign money to directly influence U.S. Elections is illegal, hence the Chamber obviously wouldn't do that. They are made up of reputable Businessmen. Planned Parenthood however, as a female type organization, is highly susceptible to those female hormones they keep regulating in their clinics. That could be the problem right there.

Of course if could be argued that the Chamber of Commerce still got to free up U.S. based money to use influencing U.S. elections after foreign money covered their other needs. Only Liberals make that argument though, hence it is a highly partisan attack and so can be disregarded. That's not the case with anti-abortion arguments which are made by God fearing Americans from across the political spectrum.

Same thing goes for education vouchers and federal support for religious universities. None of that theoretically fungible money directly supports promoting religious activity as prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. Not only would that break the law, but God fearing people wouldn't lie about something like that, because they fear God. And religious fanatics always find money somehow to support their religious beliefs. They have entire TV networks devoted to that type of thing, for God's sake. They don't need fungible money shuffled aaround for that stuff, it's the promoting education part that is always a hard sell for them, thus requiring all of that federal money.

Clearly Planned Parenthood is a special case. Only when it's them using federal money to do something perfectly legal under Federal law is some type of shady shell game the actual purpose.

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. Has any major Democratic figure poiinted out the "fungible hypocracy"?

I see Democrats bring up the Hyde Amendment to prove that Planned Parenthood does not use federal funds for abortions. I see talking heads reply; "but doesn't getting fungible federal funds for other uses free up private money for abortions?" Then I see Democrats reply that only 3% of what PP does involves abortions. Good points all of them, but why do Democrats allow Planned Parenthood to be subject to a unique attack regarding fungible money while Republicans keep getting away with channeling fungivle federal money into religious institutions at a much larger scale? I have not heard that hypocracy called out yet in public, has anyone else?

[Tom Rinaldo]

2. Last kick becasue I'm still curious...

I've heard talking head anchors spin out the entire fungible money theme but I haven't heard a single one link that concer regarding abourtion to all the other instances where invisible fire walls (like funding refligious organizations for their "nor religious" work are routinely accepted as no problem by Republicans in particular.

Has ANYONE called them out on this?