Republicans and the Tea Party of No

[babsbunny]

Republicans and the Tea Party of No

http://www.truthout.org/republicans-and-tea-party-no59519

As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the Republicans have been labeled the “Party of No.” For decades, the party’s kneejerk stance has been to oppose any legislation or policy involving social, economic or political progress.

You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women’s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in the end-of-family-free-enterprise-God-America on the one hand, and the imposition of atheism-socialism-Nazism on the other.

[MIprogressive1]

1. I agree.

Not that im saying what they are doing is right under these conditions, but wouldn't you say no to something you didn't want? If the repukes had a majority in both houses and the executive branch, I would say HELL NO to everything they were doing!