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The Republicans in the Senate are trying to remove all federal funding from Planned Parenthood, again. That's right, again. Planned Parenthood is a favorite hobby horse of Congressional Republicans and they've gone after them many times. They claim it's about these "hidden camera videos" that are currently being circulated concerning the use of fetal tissue. Planned Parenthood is far more than a clinic for abortions. They provide low cost medical care on a wide range of women's health needs and help in actual family planning for low-income families who have no other access. Planned Parenthood can speak for itself and this commentary is not about defending them, it's about defending the facts. Under the Hyde Amendment it is illegal to use federal funds for abortions, end of story. Those currently working on defunding say they would shift the tax dollars to other family clinics. History demonstrates this is untrue, the goal is to remove all federal funding...

I think we all can agree that the Iranian Government is not our friend. They routinely organize their domestic "death to America" rallies. They are a Theocracy and there in rests the problem. Whenever religion becomes the ruler of the State it results in an inflexible attitude toward other nations. We are now engaged in an attempt to place a diplomatic agreement in place which would stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. This has been of great concern for quite sometime, leading to international sanctions against them. The sanctions have hurt and motivated them to come to the bargaining table. The outline of the potential agreement is available for review and you should do that before jumping to conclusions. The actual agreement, which will be far more than four pages, will not be signed until the end of June, if we actually make it to that point. There is bipartisan doubt in our country about this deal. Most of that is sincere and Congress should absolutely do it's j...

President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch to be Attorney General 128 days ago. No one on the Republican side of the aisle really objects to her. They do mostly despise current A.G. Eric Holder. Given those harsh feelings you would think they'd be happy to be rid of him. Rational people like you and me would sieze the opportunity. Oh, right, I almost forgot, this is Washington, D.C. we're talking about. Come on Mitch call the damn vote, up or down and on it's own. When you became Majority Leader you claimed you would run the Senate in a better manner than your predecessor. Yet for 128 days you have found excuse after excuse why you haven't called the vote on Loretta Lynch. Incidentally it's been decades since an A.G. nomination has lingered like this. Wonder why?

The 47 U.S. Senators who signed that letter to Iran have faced so much blowback about their juvenile, yet dastardly deed many of them are trying to explain away their participation by minimizing their reason for doing it. All of the reasons are ridiculous and not worth considering. My favourite one however does merit review because it comes from a wanna be President. A few days ago during a Senate hearing with John Kerry and Ash Carter, Rand Paul said the letter wasn't for Iran, it was for him (Kerry) and the President. Really Senator Paul? Hey I got an idea, why didn't you and your cohorts address the letter to President Obama? The reason is clear. These Senators deliberately set out to try and subvert the President's negotiations with a foreign country. They tried to embarrass him on the international stage. It was a disgraceful and unprofessional act. It was in all likelihood an illegal move. It certainly violates the division of powers spelled out in our Constitution...

You're not supposed to start a sentence with a number so I won't but 47 Republican U.S. Senators have sent a truly moronic letter to the President of Iran. It's intent, no matter what they say, is to subvert the authority of the President of the United States. These people need a serious refresher course in the Constitution. The letter is laughable in it's simplicity and condescending attitude toward the Iranian government. The citizens of Iran are highly educated. Their leaders, who suck on multiple levels, were mostly educated in the west. They know what our Constitution says, apparently better than these Senators. The talking heads and Democrats are being polite in calling it an unprecedented act and inappropriate. The founding fathers, which Republicans love to reference, would have much stronger language and action on this misguided foray. They would jail them. But we're not going to do that. We'll just call it one more slap in our President's face by...