The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 3 - Cruz in the Crosshairs

Ted Cruz is in the crosshairs of the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate, but not because Planned Parenthood is selling baby body parts to the highest bidder. The problem is, Planned Parenthood's money comes from selling baby parts to research facilities, not from providing abortion services. Ted Cruz is fighting to stop Planned Parenthood from doing just that, and he's got a good chance to do so, but only if he can stop Mitch McConnell and the rest of the establishment from stopping him. Today's show is all about the fallout from the Planned Parenthood hearings, and how the Republican establishment is fighting back against Ted Cruz and the efforts of the pro-life wing of the party establishment to get Planned Parenthood funding back on track, even if it means taking control of the government back from Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell, who are trying to keep Planned Parenthood out of the running for any kind of funding whatsoever. Ben Shapiro explains why this is a win for the establishment, and why the only way to maintain control is to stop Ted Cruz from stopping Ted Cruz, who is fighting for control of both the government and Planned Parenthood, and who is willing to go all in on Planned Parenthood to make sure that Planned Parenthood gets the funding they need to do what they do the job they're here to do it the way they do it in order to make a name for themselves in the eyes of the American public and get their name in the public eye. Ben Shapiro: This is not a battle between the establishment and the conservative wing, it's a war between two sides, it s a war, and it's not even if you're a good vehicle for the Republican Party, and you're good enough to vote for them It ain't even good enough, it ain't good enough! And if you want to be a good candidate for the speakership, you'll have to listen to this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show. Subscribe to the Ben Shapiro Podcast! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices! Subscribe on Podcoin Subscribe on PODCODE Connect with Ben Shapiro Connect with him on LinkedIn Learn more on his Podcasts Learn more at The Six Sides Podcasts on his Podchaserx Subscribe at Podcoin Use the hashtag and become a supporter of his Podcast? on Insta-Friend him on Instagaming or his Instagames Thanks for listening to Ben Shapiro

00:00:00.000 Folks, you would think with Planned Parenthood on the rocks, they'd be the ones in the Republican crosshairs. 0.75

00:00:05.000 Not so fast.

00:00:06.000 Today, Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, he's in the crosshairs.

00:00:10.000 On Tuesday, GOP in the House, they held a hearing with the Planned Parenthood head, her name is Cecile Richards, and they excoriated her for the organization selling baby body parts to the highest bidder.

00:00:21.000 And you had congressperson after congressperson going in front of the cameras and ripping the organization because they perform somewhere between three and 400,000 abortions every single year. 0.98

00:00:32.000 But that wasn't really where the focus was.

00:00:33.000 The focus was on the Republican leadership behind the scenes because they were working to fund Planned Parenthood every single dollar, every single dime, and to stop Senator Cruz from thwarting their plans.

00:00:45.000 This was really the key to what's been going on this week.

00:00:48.000 At the same time that the Speaker of the House,

00:00:50.000 John Boehner, he's getting ready to retire, and his Republicans have been instructed to target Planned Parenthood publicly.

00:00:55.000 Boehner has now vowed he's never going to allow any sort of government shutdown, which is amazing because, after all, Congress only has two tools to stop President Obama and the executive branch.

00:01:04.000 One is impeachment, the other is the power of the purse.

00:01:07.000 And if you say in advance that you're not going to actually send President Obama some sort of continuing resolution that he'll reject,

00:01:14.000 Then Republicans have acquiesced to the agenda.

00:01:15.000 They've actually given in.

00:01:17.000 Ted Cruz says they're not going to do that.

00:01:19.000 He tried to stop them.

00:01:20.000 And so they decided they had to stop Ted Cruz.

00:01:22.000 Ted Cruz has to be stopped, even if Planned Parenthood won't be.

00:01:27.000 Meanwhile, over in the Senate, the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, he was actually laughing to the media that he stopped Senator Cruz from initiating another government shutdown.

00:01:35.000 So last week,

00:01:36.000 Cruz told the media that McConnell doesn't lead in the Senate.

00:01:39.000 Senator Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada does.

00:01:42.000 To prove Cruz wrong, McConnell then signed on to everything that Harry Reid could possibly want, which led Cruz to take to the floor of the Senate to bash leadership.

00:01:50.000 He said they refused to, quote, lift a finger to defend life.

00:01:53.000 And at the same time, McConnell prevented Cruz from amending that same funding resolution, that continuing resolution to stop funding Planned Parenthood.

00:02:01.000 Cruz said Republican leadership simply says OK to Obama.

00:02:04.000 Why does it matter if we have a Republican or a Democrat House or Senate?

00:02:08.000 That is the operative question.

00:02:10.000 By the way, McConnell and Democrats shut Cruz up after one hour using procedural means so that he couldn't continue to talk about how McConnell and Republicans were caving to the Democrats.

00:02:20.000 For the Republican establishment, the only thing that matters is maintaining control.

00:02:25.000 And the only way to maintain control is to stop Ted Cruz from taking control, even if that means that Planned Parenthood gets funded.

00:02:31.000 Ted Cruz has to be stopped, even if Planned Parenthood is not.

00:02:34.000 This is a battle between the establishment and the conservative wing of the Republican Party.

00:02:39.000 It's not even between the Republicans and Planned Parenthood, unfortunately.

00:02:43.000 If only the Republican Party were a good vehicle for conservatism.

00:02:46.000 It ain't.

00:02:47.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:02:52.000 Alright, so today, the Republicans are feeling the fallout from what happened yesterday.

00:03:03.000 There was a big hearing yesterday, and in that hearing, Republicans questioned Cecile Richards, who is of course the head of Planned Parenthood, and a bunch of them got up to question her about all of the various 0.72

00:03:13.000 Ridiculous.

00:03:31.000 Selling office products is only 3% of their business, because the rest of their business is selling those candies at the front, or the rest of their business is you walking in and talking to the Kinko's department over in Staples. 0.76

00:03:41.000 The fact is that when you label every service equally, where you make your money does not correlate with where the services go.

00:03:48.000 So the reality is the vast majority of Planned Parenthood's money actually comes from abortion services, but that

00:03:54.000 I don't know.

00:04:10.000 We're good to go.

00:04:31.000 Republican of Ohio, he was questioning Cecile Richards, and Cecile Richards was apologizing to everybody because of all these new Planned Parenthood videos that have broken.

00:04:40.000 These Planned Parenthood videos are really interesting and shocking, and what they show is all these Planned Parenthood doctors, doctor after doctor after doctor, talking about how they had violated the law in order to sell baby body parts to research facilities.

00:04:55.000 And by selling baby body parts to research facilities, they hope to

00:04:58.000 Jack up the amount of profit that they were making.

00:05:00.000 They'd even kill the babies in specific ways so as to maintain the baby body parts in a particular way, making it easier to sell them.

00:05:07.000 Well, Jim Jordan, who is a high-ranking Republican, he was considered by many a possible frontrunner for the speakership of the House, if he had declared.

00:05:15.000 Well, he asked Cecile Richards, so why are you coming here and why are you apologizing if the videos are doctored?

00:05:20.000 Let's take a listen to Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio questioning Cecile Richards.

00:05:27.000 Ms.

00:05:27.000 Richards, if the videos were selectively edited, heavily edited, if this was entrapment, if this was all untrue, then why did you apologize?

00:05:38.000 Well, Congressman, first, I think everyone has agreed they were heavily edited and that certainly I think even the perpetrator has agreed they were done undercover.

00:05:52.000 I spoke with Dr. Nukatola, who was featured in one of the videos, and I thought it was important, in my opinion, in my opinion, in my opinion,

00:06:04.000 It was inappropriate to have a clinical discussion in a non-confidential, non-clinical setting.

00:06:14.000 What were you apologizing for?

00:06:17.000 That she used, I think, in my judgment, it was bad judgment to have a clinical discussion in a non-clinical setting.

00:06:26.000 I mean, the first video comes out July 14th.

00:06:28.000 Two days later, you go and issue an apology.

00:06:33.000 And you said this, it's unacceptable.

00:06:35.000 I personally apologize for the tone and statements.

00:06:41.000 Here's the question.

00:06:43.000 Which statements were you apologizing for?

00:06:45.000 It was really the situation that she was in, and I believe that... That's not what you said.

00:06:52.000 Cecile Richards isn't going to answer the question, obviously.

00:06:55.000 And you can hear from the tone of Jim Jordan's questions that he's very frustrated with her, as he ought to be, because she originally apologized after these videos came out.

00:07:04.000 Dr. Nukatola was seen on video specifically talking about how she would

00:07:09.000 Pursue certain procedures in order to maintain the baby body parts at a certain level so that they could be sold.

00:07:16.000 I believe that Nakatola, this is the video where she talked about how she would eventually buy a Lamborghini based on the amount of profit that they would make off of these baby body parts. 0.79

00:07:23.000 And Cecile Richards is now going out and saying that it really is just about the tone.

00:07:26.000 It's really they were joking that they were at lunch when they did all of this.

00:07:29.000 If they had done it in the private office, and if she had said the same things, it wouldn't have been offensive.

00:07:34.000 And the assault on Cecile Richards, the rhetorical assault on Cecile Richards continues in this way.

00:07:39.000 Representative Cynthia Loomis, a Republican from Wyoming, and she went after Cecile Richards. 0.67

00:07:43.000 She says, you keep saying that 3% of your services are abortion services.

00:07:47.000 Well, that's not where your money's coming from.

00:07:49.000 Here is Representative Cynthia Loomis.

00:07:54.000 Let's talk about Planned Parenthood revenue from abortions.

00:07:59.000 If you look at the 2013 statistics that you report, abortions from revenue would have been over 86% of your non-government revenue.

00:08:14.000 How do you explain this massive disparity between the amount of revenue you collect from abortion and the fact that you only

00:08:22.000 Report 3% of your services being abortion.

00:08:26.000 Well, I think there's two questions you've sort of mixed in there, so let me try to address both.

00:08:31.000 One is, as we've already stated, federal money does not go for abortion, so the federal portion that we were discussing is reimbursement for preventive care services.

00:08:42.000 I think the other, so that's why they're not, those numbers don't, aren't connected.

00:08:47.000 How many, can you tell me how many of your affiliates receive the majority of their revenue from abortion?

00:08:56.000 I don't know that answer.

00:08:57.000 Could you get it for me?

00:08:59.000 I'll talk to my team.

00:09:00.000 Thanks.

00:09:01.000 But I do think it's important to understand that abortion procedures are probably more expensive than some other procedures.

00:09:08.000 And here we stop it.

00:09:09.000 This is correct of course.

00:09:10.000 Abortion procedures are more expensive which is why Planned Parenthood makes an enormous amount of money off the abortion procedures.

00:09:15.000 Now Cecile Richards would later say

00:09:17.000 that this was just the GOP being sexist, that Republicans were only asking her these questions because they don't like women. 0.93

00:09:22.000 She was on MSNBC, and she thought that it was necessary to explain that the reason that she was interrupted so much is because Republicans hate women or some such nonsense. 0.80

00:09:31.000 This, of course, is the line. 0.97

00:09:31.000 Whenever it comes to abortion, the lie is that Republicans must hate women because they oppose abortion, which is asinine given that when you're talking about sex-selective abortion, typically, 0.97

00:09:41.000 We're good to go. 0.98

00:10:02.000 We're good to go.

00:10:20.000 One of the things that Republican members of Congress really did badger you about today was your salary.

00:10:26.000 And Democrats on the panel sort of sprung to your defense, said that it was sexist of them to go after you for that, since they never do the same for male CEOs, for example.

00:10:37.000 Do you share their take on it?

00:10:39.000 Do you think that's what was going on there?

00:10:41.000 I don't really know.

00:10:42.000 I mean, I do think some of the comments were pretty sexist.

00:10:46.000 But actually, I think it was because they didn't have anything else to talk about.

00:10:50.000 Oh, okay.

00:10:51.000 So they had nothing else to talk about, which is why they talked about her salary, which, by the way, is well in excess of $300,000 a year for running an organization that is a mass abortion clinic. 0.96

00:11:00.000 It's all about sexism, and this has become the party line now.

00:11:03.000 Jerry Connolly, who's a Democrat from Virginia, he also said this.

00:11:07.000 He said that the GOP is sexist as well.

00:11:08.000 He actually said this during the hearing.

00:11:10.000 He said that the GOP was sexist, which is why the hearings were taking place in the first place.

00:11:13.000 Here's Representative Jerry Connolly of Virginia.

00:11:23.000 I hope every American woman is watching today's hearing.

00:11:27.000 Oh, no you don't.

00:11:28.000 Because just the visuals, as well as the audios, tell you a lot.

00:11:37.000 My colleagues like to say, there's no war on women. 1.00

00:11:41.000 Look at how you've been treated as a witness.

00:11:44.000 Oh.

00:11:46.000 Intimidation.

00:11:47.000 Talking over, interrupting, cutting off sentences, criticizing you because of your salary.

00:11:54.000 How dare you?

00:11:56.000 Who do you think you are?

00:11:59.000 Okay, we don't have to listen to Monopoly Man anymore.

00:12:05.000 But this is how these hearings usually go.

00:12:07.000 The way that they usually go is that you have somebody on one side going after the witness, somebody on the other side coming out in defense of the witness, because this is what our government has become.

00:12:15.000 And the Democrats are, of course, a paid

00:12:17.000 Contributor to the Planned Parenthood Fund.

00:12:20.000 I mean, it really isn't the reverse.

00:12:21.000 It's not that Democrats get paid by Planned Parenthood, it's really that Democrats pay Planned Parenthood, and then they go out and they use the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, millions and millions of dollars every single year, in order to get Democrats elected.

00:12:31.000 Now here is the big problem.

00:12:33.000 Here's the big problem for Republicans.

00:12:35.000 The same Republicans who are out there bashing Planned Parenthood and saying that this is all perfectly legitimate, this entire investigation is perfectly legitimate, when it comes time to actually defund Planned Parenthood, then all of a sudden their courage goes completely out the window.

00:12:48.000 When it comes time for them to sit down and finally say, no, enough, we're done here.

00:12:52.000 Then all of a sudden, the courage is gone.

00:12:53.000 All of a sudden, we're done here.

00:12:55.000 We're going to sign over a continuing resolution to keep the government funded.

00:12:59.000 And there are all these Republicans, supposed conservatives, establishment Republicans, who do this routine.

00:13:05.000 Where they suggest that the great Republican success story would be to continue to fund the government, and then to use issues like this in order to run for electoral office.

00:13:15.000 The idea being that all we can really do here is just whine about things until we win.

00:13:19.000 It's the Donald Trump strategy.

00:13:20.000 Trump says, we whine until we win.

00:13:22.000 Well, according to Republicans, we all have to whine until we win, until we will continue to sign over funding to President Obama, because who knows?

00:13:28.000 The government shutdown could go really badly, the media would get very upset, the media would get super duper angry, and then what would happen?

00:13:34.000 Republicans would lose seat.

00:13:36.000 Okay, there's a problem with this.

00:13:37.000 Government shutdowns don't hurt Republicans because when it comes to government shutdowns, Democrats are the ones who want the government to run.

00:13:44.000 Republicans are supposed to be the people standing in favor of a small government.

00:13:48.000 Republicans are supposed to stand in favor of a government that only provides specified services

00:13:54.000 And that is only there to do certain things.

00:13:56.000 So the idea the government shuts down unless it does the things we want it to do, that's perfectly in line with Republican thinking.

00:14:02.000 And if Republicans continue to say the government can't shut down, we'll even fund Planned Parenthood to prevent the government from shutting down, it looks like sexism to attack Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood. 0.98

00:14:10.000 If you're not willing to man up, if you're not willing to grow a set, then you shouldn't be surprised when everybody assumes that you're just being a jerk to attack Planned Parenthood and Cecile Richards. 0.96

00:14:21.000 You know how far this has gone now with the Republicans? 0.97

00:14:22.000 Here's how far this has gone with the Republicans.

00:14:24.000 This is from The Hill today.

00:14:30.000 is urging Speaker John Boehner to go big in his last month on Capitol Hill.

00:14:35.000 Lamenting the congressional dysfunction that's left undone the people's work, Hoyer pointed to a series of proposals deemed must-pass by the end of the year, including new highway funding, reauthorization of export-import, and a long-term budget deal.

00:14:47.000 He says he wants Boehner to tackle as many of these items as possible before stepping out of Congress October 30th.

00:14:53.000 Steine Hoyer, he said, I'm hopeful that as Speaker Boehner serves out the last month of his term in the Congress of the United States, he will work with his Republican colleagues and with his Democratic colleagues to effect some progress on important things we need to be doing.

00:15:07.000 How bad is the establishment Republican Party, in other words?

00:15:09.000 The House Minority Whip, one of the Democratic leaders in the House, is now calling on the Speaker of the House to do what he wants him to do.

00:15:18.000 So in other words, conservatives, the people who voted John Boehner into office, the people who fund John Boehner, the people who want John Boehner to be Speaker of the House until he betrayed them, the people who want more Republicans in office, those people are telling John Boehner to slow down.

00:15:30.000 And Steny Hoyer, the Democrat, is telling John Boehner to speed up.

00:15:33.000 And who is John Boehner listening to?

00:15:35.000 He's listening to Steny Hoyer.

00:15:37.000 He's listening to the Democrat.

00:15:38.000 And attacking Ted Cruz, by the way. 0.99

00:15:40.000 Last Sunday, John Boehner, tool that he is, drunken, ridiculous human being that he is, John Boehner went on the Sunday shows and he called Ted Cruz a jackass. 1.00

00:15:50.000 Ted Cruz is the jackass. 0.99

00:15:51.000 Ted Cruz is the jackass because he says that President Obama should be forced to put his money where his mouth is and veto legislation funding the government if he wants to save Planned Parenthood. 1.00

00:16:00.000 But John Boehner says that Cruz is the jackass. 1.00

00:16:02.000 Meanwhile, 0.99

00:16:04.000 Meanwhile, John Boehner is the guy who's basically getting ousted from his position.

00:16:08.000 But before he leaves, he's going to make sure that the government continues to be funded in line with President Obama's spending priorities.

00:16:14.000 Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell is going to Politico and chortling over Ted Cruz being unable to shut down the government.

00:16:21.000 Senator John Thune of South Dakota, who's the number three Senate Republican, one of McConnell's deputies, he said about Ted Cruz, they stopped Ted Cruz from speaking and shutting down the government, he said, Let's focus in on that last line for one second.

00:16:33.000 We've got to fund the government every year.

00:16:44.000 Question, why?

00:16:45.000 Why?

00:16:46.000 Turns out that government spending is mandatory.

00:16:49.000 80% of government spending is mandatory.

00:16:50.000 Whenever there's a government shutdown, the government continues to operate at 80% of what it normally operates at.

00:16:56.000 So why do you have to fund the government every year?

00:16:57.000 Why is that a top priority for Republicans?

00:17:00.000 And if it is a top priority for Republicans to keep the government funded at current rates, or maybe slightly below, then they're just Democrats alight.

00:17:08.000 When you have Mitch McConnell going out there and ripping—seriously, folks, when you have Mitch McConnell ripping Ted Cruz harder than he rips President Obama or Planned Parenthood, you know that the Republican Party is not a good vehicle.

00:17:18.000 You want to know why Donald Trump is succeeding, folks?

00:17:21.000 The reason Donald Trump is succeeding today and will continue to succeed—and if it's not him, it'll be Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina or Ted Cruz—is because people hate the Republican Party, and they should.

00:17:30.000 It's been a terrible vehicle for conservatives.

00:17:33.000 You want to know why Bernie Sanders, an open socialist, is running inside the Democratic Party?

00:17:36.000 The answer is that Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist, is running inside the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party is the party of the left, and the Republican Party is the party of the center-left. 0.96

00:17:47.000 And the fact that Ted Cruz is being seen as the enemy by people like Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, that you got- When was the last time that John Boehner called President Obama a jackass?

00:17:56.000 President Obama signed the worst Iran deal in the history of the United States. 0.88

00:18:00.000 President Obama

00:18:02.000 has pushed forward Obamacare with zero Republican votes. 0.98

00:18:04.000 John Boehner never called him a jackass, but Ted Cruz is a jackass for wanting to defund all of this. 0.86

00:18:10.000 Now I gotta tell you folks, I personally, I personally was not a fan of Ted Cruz's shutdown strategy over Obamacare back a couple of years ago. 0.96

00:18:19.000 I thought that it was likely to end disastrously, problematically because he didn't have enough allies.

00:18:24.000 But you know what?

00:18:24.000 I gotta say, maybe I was wrong.

00:18:26.000 Maybe I was wrong because Cruz at least was trying to hold his own party's feet to the fire.

00:18:31.000 McConnell and company?

00:18:32.000 They just won't do it. 1.00

00:18:33.000 It's absolutely pathetic. 1.00

00:18:35.000 It is pathetic. 0.99

00:18:36.000 And meanwhile, you got Rand Paul out there, and you got Marco Rubio out there ripping Trump and ripping Cruz and saying that Cruz doesn't know what he's doing. 0.98

00:18:43.000 Rand Paul came out yesterday, and he said that Ted Cruz

00:18:46.000 is done in the Senate, that basically his influence is finished.

00:18:49.000 By the way, Ted Cruz will be in the Senate as long as he wants to be in the Senate.

00:18:52.000 He's from Texas.

00:18:52.000 Okay, no one is going to get rid of Ted Cruz in Texas.

00:18:56.000 Rand Paul is going to run in a very contested Senate race, and he may very well lose that race, which is why Rand Paul is probably going to drop out of the presidential race pretty soon.

00:19:03.000 But the battle lines are being drawn right here, and people are saying that it's grandstanding by Cruz, this is all just pyrotechnics, it's all for the presidential race.

00:19:11.000 So here's the question.

00:19:12.000 If Ted Cruz is doing this to win Republican primaries, if the goal here for Ted Cruz is to please the base to win Republican primaries, why isn't the rest of the Republican Party following Ted Cruz to please the Republican base?

00:19:23.000 Why are they seeking to please Steny Hoyer and the Democrats and Barack Obama and the Democrats and all of this hypocrisy in which they go out and they rip on Planned Parenthood?

00:19:33.000 All of this ridiculous nonsense where they go out and they yell at Cecile Richards, or they go out and they question them.

00:19:38.000 They go out and they say that Planned Parenthood is a great evil and they're complicit in a great moral evil, and then they go ahead and they sign the check. 0.69

00:19:45.000 John Boehner's name is on every check that President Obama's name is on to Planned Parenthood.

00:19:50.000 They are co-signatories of those checks.

00:19:53.000 So John Boehner doesn't claim to—he doesn't get to claim that he's anti-Planned Parenthood.

00:19:57.000 He doesn't get to claim that he is staunchly pro-life when he continues to sign those checks because he's too cowardly to shut down the government.

00:20:03.000 And it wouldn't even be him shutting down the government.

00:20:05.000 This is the role of Congress.

00:20:07.000 The role of Congress is to regulate the purse strings.

00:20:10.000 And if Congress won't do it, President Obama will get to do what he wants.

00:20:12.000 We now live in an elected dictatorship.

00:20:14.000 So, look, I'm glad that the Republicans are having these hearings on Planned Parenthood.

00:20:17.000 I just want to see some actual effect.

00:20:33.000 All I want to see is something beyond, elect us and we'll do something.

00:20:37.000 Guess what?

00:20:37.000 Electing you?

00:20:38.000 We did it.

00:20:39.000 And you're not doing anything.

00:20:40.000 So why would we continue to spend our money and our time electing you?

00:20:43.000 How about you do something now?

00:20:45.000 How about you stand tall?

00:20:46.000 And if you stand tall, I don't think Republicans will lose from a government shutdown.

00:20:51.000 In fact, President Clinton shifted from the guy who proposed Obamacare originally back in 1992 to the guy who signed welfare reform after Newt Gingrich shut down the government.

00:20:59.000 Bob Dole, who was the Senate Majority Leader in 1996 during the government shutdown, he wanted to run for president. 0.99

00:21:04.000 And Bob Dole did run for president, and as you remember, he got his ass kicked. 0.99

00:21:07.000 Royally. 0.99

00:21:08.000 Bob Dole got destroyed.

00:21:10.000 And he's a footnote in history.

00:21:12.000 I'll tell you what's not a footnote in history.

00:21:13.000 That move that Clinton made to the right because of the government shutdown.

00:21:16.000 Democrats fear government shutdowns.

00:21:18.000 Democrats require government spending in order to grease the wheels of their machinery.

00:21:22.000 Republicans don't.

00:21:23.000 Republicans don't.

00:21:24.000 And if Republicans fail to recognize this, if they play the Democrat game where the government has to be open in order for everybody to be happy, they don't have the moral credibility to come out against organizations, evil organizations, like Planned Parenthood.

00:21:36.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

The Ben Shapiro Show - September 30, 2015

Ep. 3 - Cruz in the Crosshairs

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