Conservatives' Ahab-like determination to destroy Obamacare is actually obliterating their own party
WEDNESDAY, SEP 11, 2013 08:30 AM -0400
The rights Obamacare obsession is destroying the Republican Party
Conservatives' Ahab-like determination to destroy Obamacare is actually obliterating their own party
BY BRIAN BEUTLER
The rights Ahab-like determination to destroy Obamacare has so thoroughly overtaken the conservative wing of the GOP that its loyalists in Congress are about to squander an opportunity to hand Democrats a huge defeat in the fight over sequestration, and hasten the Republican crackup in the process.
Conservatives are poised once again! to align with progressives in temporarily handing control of the House of Representatives over to Nancy Pelosi, and protecting the poor from deep government spending cuts. All because GOP leaders dont think suicide is a wise political strategy.
You know the backstory. Over the past few months, but most intensely during this Augusts Congressional recess, the right organized itself around an impossible demand: no funding for the government unless President Obama agrees to defund his own health care law.
House GOP leaders correctly concluded that demand would earn the party a one-way ticket to complete blame for a government shutdown, followed by a swift, humiliating defeat in the fight over Obamacare. But the rights not really known for its openness to persuasion. So GOP leaders decided theyd try to hoodwink everyone instead. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor devised a strategy of pairing a symbolic vote to defund the health care law with a sub rosa effort to force semi-permanent austerity on the country.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/09/11/conservatives_are_screwing_over_the_gop_leadership_again/