The con of the day

[sandyshoes17]

The big con of the day is Planned Parenthood. Chris Matthews, Lawrence, etc. They are making it all about this, thats what they want our attention on. It has nothing to do with that. Thats the thing they will compromise on. But what will happen to the EPA, etc. It will be gutted. It's just like Alito and Roberts, they all talked about abortion, mean while they were the biggest corporate judges, Alito voted with the corporations 100% of the time, Roberts 99%. But the media never mentioned that. Just like now, they are not mentioning the EPA, and countless other horrible things that are in this bill, they want to keep it to "abortion, guns, and gays". We are all feeding into the game, we have to see beyond what the media is pushing. And they are pushing the Planned Parenthood thing today. They keep the Freepers and the DU's going all day. and mean while they win. we have to get beyond this propaganda before it's too late.

[OHdem10]

1. Reid, Boxer and other Democrats said it is about Planned Parenthood

This makes perfect sense. The Republicans play Hardball.
They hoped to box the Dems and the President in. I believed
they got as much in cuts as they did because the Republicans
knew they (Dems) would have to fight to the death for certain
Democratic Programs. Also they used it by saying We will take
less in cuts if you (Dems) will defund EPA and PP. They ran
it out as long as possible trying to get more cuts.

[Angry Dragon]

3. Congress is made up of 75% of worthless human beings

[Tx4obama]

2. EPA will not be gutted. Obama said he'd veto a bill with an EPA rider attacked. n/t

[ProSense]

4. The facts of the day:

Lawmakers: GOP's anti-EPA rider axed

Senators Boxer, Kerry and others have been talking about the EPA all day.

The Senate voted down the GOP attack on the EPA Wednesday.

Kerry

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Start with the fact that they’re going to shut down the government if we don’t prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases which the Supreme Court of the United States – all those Justices appointed by Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43 – said the EPA has to do.

Folks, we had that debate. It’s fresh in our minds. This week the Senate debated Senator McConnell’s amendment to cut off EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. It lost. Three other amendments with similar approaches had up or down votes - each one of them failed. The process worked – amendments were debated and votes were counted. So now, it’s do it or we’ll shut down the government. I don’t remember a lot of Americans voting for dirtier air – or water they can’t drink – or longer droughts for farmers – but now they’re saying the government’s going to be shut down if we don’t handcuff the EPA. We’ve been here before. In December 1995, one of the reasons that the federal government shutdown was the Republican attempts to include a “….excessive number of anti-environmental riders.” And here we go again. The Budget Committee Chairman, Senator Conrad, reports that last night in the middle of the night, the other side put mountaintop mining riders on the table. What’s that have to do with reducing the deficit?

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