Breaking: Senator Whitehouse Blisters Tea Party
Friday, April 08, 2011
The missive delivered via email called opponents - extremists for the their position on the need for federal spending cuts and specifically to cuts to funding for Planned Parenthood and Title X Funding.
Whitehouse wrote:
"We need to tell them no. Sign the petition to tell the Tea Party that the federal budget is not the place to push their social agenda.
This is no longer about spending. Last night Democrats agreed to $38 billion in budget cuts -- $5 billion more than the original Republican request -- and over three-quarters of the way toward their new request.
Let me be clear, by law no federal funds go to abortion. None. And they haven't since 1976. The funds in question provide cervical cancer screenings, diabetes testing, breast cancer exams and birth control for over 5 million low-income individuals each year. The Title X program has had such mainstream support that it was even signed into law in 1970 by President Nixon...who said that "no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition."
Title X funding has enjoyed such widespread support because Title X provides basic primary and preventive care for low-income women.
And yet this is the reason we haven't reached a budget deal, because Tea Party extremists think they can use the federal budget to shut down Planned Parenthood."
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Comments:
Doreen Costa
11:18pm on Friday, April 08, 2011
Dear Mr. Whitehouse,
If the government shuts down it's because of the tax and spend mentality that out elected officials have in Washington.
noel davis
8:33am on Saturday, April 09, 2011
MKs Costa...YOU, THE TOOTH FAIRY & MS BLAIS WILL/ARE DESTROYING AMERICA W/YOUR "HOLIER THAN THOU" ATTITUDE..BRING BACK KENNY CARTER
Joyce Bryant
3:01pm on Saturday, April 09, 2011
When the Democrats had the majority they had the job to bring in a budget, they sat on their hands and did nothing! So don't go blaming others, blame yourselves and your over-payed colleagues.
Typical Resident
1:15pm on Sunday, April 10, 2011
Noel Davis might possibly be more idiotic than our Gov, and I never thought that was possible.
joe bernstein
2:36pm on Sunday, April 10, 2011
Well,there WERE 36% of the voters who went for that addled turd.
Charles rangel,that paragon of ethics said on television that the Dems "just didn't get to it"-they were too busy stealing.
joe bernstein
2:38pm on Sunday, April 10, 2011
Shedon whitehouse is in reality that nitwit captain played by John Larocquette in "Stripes" with Bill Murray-a strutting empty suit.
Nancy Freeman
7:23pm on Sunday, April 10, 2011
And what, do tell us, dear Senator Whitehouse, do you call Obamacare? Was that not a social agenda that was rammed down the throats of Americans, against their loud and persistent protests? You, who didn't read the bill before you took the important step of voting for it? You, who abdicated your Constitutional duty to represent your state and not your party?
Who is the extremist with a social agenda, Mr. Whitehouse? Your highfalutin days in Washington are numbered.
Lorna Dobson
2:59pm on Monday, April 11, 2011
Mr. Whitehouse, you don't have to do everything Chuck Schumer tells you to. Tea Party extremists? Nuh-uh.......LIBERAL EXTREMISTS.
Max Diesel
7:57am on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Hey Shelly,
Why didn't you and your cowardly Democratic brethren pass the budget back in October when you controlled all three houses? Let me answer for you. You all were afraid you would get smoked in the November election because of your out of control spending. Your radical liberal ramblings are meaningless drivel.
Mark Hodgkin
1:56pm on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Thank God Democrats never use the federal budget to "push their social agenda"
Senator Whitehouse has continually revealed himself nothing but a party hack.
Joseph P
10:18pm on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
I don't bother writing anymore to our representatives in Washington. It is a waste of time. I'm out to replace every one of them. They are a waste of tax dollars. If the tea party are extremists then I join them in their extremism. The problem with Shelly is that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Why would he listen to anyone other than himself. Him being a political hack is putting it mildly.