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Bucky

(54,013 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 07:15 AM Oct 2013

Alternet: 10 Things Republicans Would Likely Go After Next If Dems Give In

Good read.

http://www.alternet.org/10-things-republicans-hate-and-would-likely-go-after-next-if-dems-give

Here’s the list of things Republicans hate:

  • Social Security.
  • Medicare.
  • Public schools.
  • Environmental Protection.
  • The Food and Drug Administration.
  • The minimum wage.
  • The eight-hour workday and the 40-hour workweek.
  • Unions and the National Labor Relations Board – the right of workers to organize.
  • The 47% of Americans who they say are “takers” and “moochers.”
  • Anything other than fossil fuels to provide energy.
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    Alternet: 10 Things Republicans Would Likely Go After Next If Dems Give In (Original Post) Bucky Oct 2013 OP
    Wouldn't they be inclined to do that regardless? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2013 #1
    They would charge forward with more vigor in their step is all madokie Oct 2013 #3
    Left out: Turbineguy Oct 2013 #2
    I would have thought on that list ...they would demand yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #4
    Yeah, pretty surprising they haven't done that yet. Xyzse Oct 2013 #8
    More vaginas. nt DebJ Oct 2013 #5
    the grand game of chicken Javaman Oct 2013 #6
    What is 'Defunded' Next newsboy Oct 2013 #7
    They constantly go after those, so it won't be new. Xyzse Oct 2013 #9

    yuiyoshida

    (41,831 posts)
    4. I would have thought on that list ...they would demand
    Tue Oct 8, 2013, 07:20 AM
    Oct 2013

    That the President vacate the White House and go back to Chicago while the Highest Ranking Republican would take over as President. Its sounds like something they would seriously consider.

     

    newsboy

    (89 posts)
    7. What is 'Defunded' Next
    Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:36 AM
    Oct 2013

    This is important in bringing attention to what Tea Cruz-and-Friends are attempting. It is one thing to shrug off a strike against all things Obama – as in Obamacare –(he is after all not one of US as a Kenyan, Muslim, Anti American, Anti Gun, Communist, Gay, Chicago Political Machine Gangster, Manchurian President working to bring down USA with a wife that will Mandates we drink water). It is another to see that these same wingers can NEXT demand to defund or strike out ‘your’ government program or ‘your’ rights gained through legitimate legislative processes.

    The speaker and all on message republicans say the President will not ‘negotiate’. That is so absurd as to be laughable. Why would the President ‘negotiate’ with people that seek to standardize the means to tear at the legitimate rights of all Americans about anything they dislike this time or the next. And why is this false ‘negotiate’ narrative not laughed off the airways.

    Xyzse

    (8,217 posts)
    9. They constantly go after those, so it won't be new.
    Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:54 AM
    Oct 2013

    It just means they can add more to their demands, and their strategy of acting like whiny little brats work.

    It would also mean that they can now ask for more.

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