Republicans Around The Country Are On A Law breaking Rampage - PoliticusUSA

[Bill USA]

http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/09/republicans-country-law-breaking-rampage.html

The concept of law lacks a universally accepted definition, but it is safe to say that in the construct of society it is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior and maintain order. Obviously there are members of any society that find fault with specific laws for a variety of reasons, but because laws are for the common good, most people are inclined to follow them as responsible citizens; unless they are conservatives and specifically Republicans. The past four-and-a-half years have demonstrated that Republicans have no respect for the law on myriad levels, and it is in part based on the premise they are destined by god to rule America, and in part because they believe they are fundamentally above the law like common criminals. It is not a new development for Republicans, and conservatives in general, to disregard laws that are contrary to their ideological bent they have spent decades ignoring, circumventing, and blatantly subverting to impose their despotic ideology and rule America.

There is a definite pattern among Republicans of finding some means to ignore, break, and subvert laws by spending millions of dollars to fear-monger, pose legal challenges, change terminology, or insert unrelated, and constitutionally aberrant items into legislation unrelated to their original intent. Unsurprisingly, many laws Republicans undermine have been settled time and again in the courts, and yet they blatantly violate even decades-old Supreme Court rulings with impunity. Even though Republicans’ practice of undermining the law has been going on for decades, they ramped up their efforts since Barack Obama has been President to take advantage of racial animus permeating American society. What makes their efforts all the more despicable is that nearly all the laws of the land they are undermining or violating have little to no effect on their existence or rights as Americans; it is all about control.

For example, the Supreme Court ruled forty years ago that it is a woman’s Constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy up until the time a fetus is viable outside the womb, and for forty years Republicans and the religious right have used every means possible to violate the Court’s ruling. In just the past two weeks, Republicans redefined pregnancy with a personhood law in Ohio’s budget, inserted abortion bans into anti-Sharia legislation in North Carolina, devised disgraceful means to prevent physicians from having access to medical facilities in Texas, and mandated forced transvaginal ultrasounds to dissuade women for exercising their Constitutional rights. The Roe v. Wade decision has no impact on any woman, or man, who is not making a personal reproductive health choice, but Republicans are violating the law with impunity to force their ideology on every woman in America.

Conservative groups could not comport a campaign law requiring them to reveal their donors, so they illegally used social welfare designation to conceal dark money in campaigns, and to circumvent the law they committed perjury and then had the temerity to complain when the IRS followed the letter of the law governing tax exempt organizations. Religious tax-exempt organizations cannot tolerate a law that prohibits them from campaigning from the pulpit and still keep their tax-exempt status, so they videotape themselves violating the law daring the IRS to revoke their tax-exempt status. Their goal is overturning the Separation Clause in the Constitution’s First Amendment they have been violating for the past three decades.

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[pinto]

1. +1

Thanks for the snag.

[railsback]

2. Seems like the clear and present danger energies should be focused on right now

instead of rifling through NSA documents in Latin, trying to look for evidence that your porn activities are being monitored.

2014 is coming up fast. The GOP need to be buried before they can do even more damage that actually affects people in real time.

[Avalux]

3. Yep. Guerilla politics.

It's absolutely insane what they're doing, and they're getting away with it. For those of us who are logical and law-abiding, the chaos is difficult to process let alone combat, but we'd better figure out how, and fast.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Agreed

this is not to even mention their deliberate sabotage of how Congress functions, especially in the Senate, where they can tie up Cabinet and judicial nominees and legislation indefinitely unless their supporters manage to cobble (and hold) together a 60-vote supermajority at all times. Additionally, and what should be even more concerning, is that they are basically using extortion tactics to get laws passed or policies implemented outside the ordinary legislative process such as their refusal to approve ANY nominee to the CFPB unless certain changes are made to that law despite the absence of any genuine objection to the nominee President Obama presented to Congress and their previous (and current) refusal to raise the debt ceiling unless cuts and other changes are made to spending policies that are, once again, not being pushed through the normal legislative process. I don't know the historical precedent for it and maybe the Democrats did it too but I don't think that the Republicans' "Hastert Rule" (majority of the majority) is very democratic either. I thought that laws should be passed if the majority of the public supports them, not whether or not the majority of the majority party supports them.

[PeppinoImpastato]

4. politics is broken in the west

a revolution is required to fix things

[Corruption Inc]

6. Laws are only meaningful if there are consequences for not following them.

As there are few consequences in our corrupt nation, it's actually much more widespread and not limited to any 1 corrupt political party.

Banks are corrupt, war criminals are free, WMD conspirators still get appointed to government positions, the courts are corrupt, regulators are corrupt, tax codes are corrupt, real estate is corrupt, Wall Street speculation is corrupt, torturers are still in government as are their contractors, most police depts are corrupt, the national security complex is corrupt, and the list goes on and on.

Yes, (R)s are corrupt as a whole but the bigger question is why are they allowed to be corrupt?

[annabanana]

7. They are no longer a political party.

They are gangsters.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Suburban gangs in my area.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. It's what I've been say'n.

[Coyotl]

10. Houston, Austin, Ohio, NC, WI, we have a problem.