Blogs For Victory

Here’s why – from Open Secrets:

…In 2010, Planned Parenthood and a California affiliate together spent more than $700,000 on federal lobbying efforts, a Center for Responsive Politics analysis of federal lobbying records finds. By comparison, all other organizations that primarily advocate for abortion rights collectively spent $247,280 on federal lobbying efforts during the same period, according to the Center’s research.

Planned Parenthood’s political influence efforts hardly stop at lobbying.

The organization’s political action committee, for example, donated more than $148,000 to federal candidates — almost all Democrats — during the 2010 election cycle. The PAC spent more than $443,000 overall.

Planned Parenthood also recorded $905,796 in independent expenditures during the 2010 cycle — money spent in support of, or in opposition to, federal political candidates, largely through advertisements. The top beneficiaries of this money were Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.)…

And how can Planned Parenthood afford this massive effort? Because PP gets about a third of its annual budget from the federal government. Right around $360 million per year. When you have that kind of “free” money coming in, shelling out $1.6 million for politics is easy. You can claim all you want that no federal funds are used for abortions or for politics, but the PP budget is the PP budget…you have to budget for salaries, insurance, equipment, buildings, abortions and lobbying. If Reid the Magic Money Fairy comes along and gives you a bag of money to cover, say, salaries, insurance and equipment, then the money you would have spent on that can go for other things – like abortions and politics.

Democrats are fighting for PP not because of health care. Believe it or not, you can get a cancer screening – for free – plenty of other places; additionally, if PP is cut off from federal funds, they’ll still have more than $700 million to spend…not exactly chump change and that will cover a lot of cancer screenings. No, Democrats are fighting in the last ditch on this because almost all the money PP spends on politics goes to Democrats – in return for showering $360 million of other peoples money on PP, Democrats get a $1.6 million payout which works out to a clear profit for the Democrats of, well, $1.6 million. Its a great deal for PP and Democrats. Not so much for everyone else.

Meanwhile, of course, PP is actually quite a nauseating and inhuman organization. They are America’s largest abortion provider. They cover up rape and child abuse. They eagerly assist in other criminal, sexual activity. They are dishonorable and dishonest and no decent person should have anything to do with PP. A cut off of federal funds is just an exercise in basic morality and common sense. Naturally, Democrats fight against it.

HAT TIP: PJ Tatler