6 Ways Rabid Republicans Are Declaring War On America

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/6-ways-rabid-republicans-are-declaring-war-america



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1. The latest House budget. There is no single federal budget bill, but a series of bills for combinations of different agencies. In 2013, House Appropriations Committee has been approving budgets that present some of the most draconian cuts seen in a generation. This week saw the panel pass a budget bill cutting the Environmental Protection Agency by 34 percent, including cuts to clean water programs by 60 percent. It gave the White House a quarter of what it sought for renewable energy and energy efficiency, and cut National Park funds by 10 percent and cuts national arts and humanities funding in half.

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2. Holding Obamacare hostage. The October 1 implementation date for individuals to start enrolling in Obamacare (the first day of the 2014 federal fiscal year) has become another line in the sand for surly Republicans. Despite passage in 2010, a Supreme Court decision upholding most of it, a presidential election where the healthcare reform was an issue and voters re-elected Obama, top Senate Republicans are now saying that they will not pass any budget bill that includes funding to implement the law.

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3. Stonewalling federal judgeships. This summer’s budget battles only add to the already toxic atmosphere in Washington. Senate’s Republicans have also abused their power by delaying the appointment of federal judges nominated by the White House. The American Bar Association’s president recently wrote an editorial complaining about the large number of federal judge vacancies, calling it a worsening “emergency.”

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4. Stopping immigration reform. The GOP, and especially the House majority, knows their power will be diluted if more immigrants become citizens and vote. They also know that many industries rely on low wages for immigrant laborers, including people that pay more in taxes than they receive in government services. But the House GOP will not take up a Senate immigration bill with amnesty and a decade-long path to citizenship. Even Fox News contributor, Republican Juan Williams, has derided House GOP leaders as racist. He should not be surprised, because today’s Republicans are bent on retaining their power by any means, instead of persuading voters in open and fair elections.

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1. Not to mention about a million other things too. . .

[GRAMPADAVIE]

2. FLUSH THE REPUBLICANS

I am sick and tired of wasting $180,000 salaries on a bunch of republicans who act like petulant grade school children who hate their teacher. They spend all their time disrupting the class so no one else can learn anything either.

Whenever a democrat is president, republicans try to impeach him, make him fail, or prevent him from accomplishing anything. Apparently, us voters just don’t know what we want.

Filibustering everything isn’t good enough. Republicans waste billions of our tax dollars investigating exaggerated “scandals” they scream about made up "scandals" like sleazy checkout counter tabloids. In 1997, republicans tied up congress for weeks and demanded more than 40,000 documents about (gasp!) Clinton’s Christmas card list. Of course, like nearly all silly republican “investigations,” it was all baloney.

Under Obama there have been 2 embassy attacks and 4 deaths (Horrors!). Under Bush there were 11 embassy attacks and 52 deaths (yawn). The one defining characteristic of republican McCarthyism is the stench of hypocrisy (yes, Joe McCarthy was a republican). They make elaborate excuses for the massive malfeasance of their own members while attacking democrats for far smaller mistakes.

They’ve cried wolf far too many times. It’s time to flush the republican blockage down the drain to follow all our tax money they wasted.

Check out my video on You tube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcnNnK8rvhFiQGj7IULK13g

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3. It looks to me like what the house republicons are doing is criminal

No two ways about it.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Kick and Rec