Terry Jeffrey Recommend this article  "Nope. Zero."  According
to a story in Sunday's New York Times, that is what President
Barack Obama told House Speaker John Boehner last week when
Boehner, as the Times put it, "was demanding a provision to
restrict financing to Planned Parenthood and other groups that
provide abortions."  Boehner asked again, the Times reported,
and Obama again said: "Nope. Zero."  The bottom line: Boehner
agreed to a deal to fund the government for the rest of fiscal
2011 that will permit continued federal funding for Planned
Parenthood, a group that says it did 332,278 abortions in 2009
-- or about 910 per day.  This is despite the fact that the
House voted 240 to 185 in February for an amendment to prohibit
Planned Parenthood funding in the bill they initially passed to
fund the government for the rest of this fiscal year.  Boehner
had a massive bipartisan majority of the House behind him on
defunding Planned Parenthood -- but he still caved.  He did win
a farcical face-saving concess