Deliberate Sabotage by the Republican Party

[UCmeNdc]

The evidence of this deliberate sabotage is everywhere. Record numbers of filibusters in the Senate. Time-wasting passage of bills in the House purposely deigned to fail (including not just the food stamp-free Farm Bill but 38 separate votes to overturn the Affordable Care Act). A ramped-up media circus that's focused not on pressing forward with any issue, but on pressing down on the whole idea of government action.

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If the signs of the fix are not clear enough, Republican sabotage is also delivered via an astounding level of self-proclaimed incompetence. This takes the form of GOP Congressmen and senators who ensure you that, despite every opportunity and dozens of staffers, they have not read the bills that cross their desks. Despite months in committees and weeks of floor debate, they will dismiss major bills as "passed in the middle of the night." Despite a preponderance of legal training, and despite the fact that it's their job they will also rush forward to tell you that they certainly don't understand all those big words and long sentences in the legislation before them. Why, how can you count on Congress to pass any of this stuff when it's just so, so ... wordy.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/21/1224717/-Washington-is-not-broken?showAll=yes

[n2doc]

1. Excellent article n/t

[Grateful for Hope]

2. Great article.

K&R

[msongs]

3. demolratic leadership should be using this gift against republicans but we must be bipartisan nt

[UCmeNdc]

4. Another example is

the intentional sabotage of Obamacare by GOP governors. They know the program will help their voters but hope to kill the program before the red state voters recognize the benefits of good health care within the Obamacare program.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Why be so ... partisan? Just roll over and take it, like a good bipartisan fellow. Find the "middle"

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. this should be spelled out to the electorate

[4butchie]

7. Deliberate Sabotage by the Republican Party

So, I think that the reason for this non stop Republican Party obstruction and sabotage is 3 fold:

1. It was a way to punish the country for electing B. Obama.

2. Right from the gate the GOP could not allow the President to have a successful 1st term, if they were going to have any chance of beating him in 2012. They knew that the only way to beat him was for the voters to be jobless, homeless, hungry, and ANGRY!
Their big mistake: Mitt "Donut Man" Romney".

3. Now, it's about the President's legacy and how it affects upcoming elections.

...Enter Hilary

[jmowreader]

9. It would be very, very hard to point out one reason why the GOP lost in 2012

Let's see...they picked a standardbearer no one likes and a running mate that scares people.

Their platform had three planks: undo everything Obama managed to slip past the GOP, ban abortion and cut taxes.

Their plan to fix the problems caused by tax cuts, deregulation and starting wars was to cut taxes more, deregulate more and start more wars.

Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result each time. He would say the same thing about the GOP's 2012 platform.

[Drunken Irishman]

10. 2012 might've been the biggest littlest landslide in presidential history...

You know, like Reno.

The overall election was close, or at least felt close, but at the end of the day, it was almost as unwinnable for Republicans as '96 was and '84 was for the Democrats. It was more than Romney and Ryan - it was the entire brand and the demographic shifts that changed the dynamics of the election. It's why the Democrats are the favorites heading into 2016.

[UCmeNdc]

8. Anarchists of the House

The Republican Congress is testing a new frontier of radicalism—governmental sabotage.

http://nymag.com/news/features/republican-congress-2013-7/

[4butchie]

11. Can someone help me understand !

What I just don't get about the GOP is their blind ignorance !!??!!

I'm a Progressive and proud of it. But the truth is that there are Blacks, Gays, Latinos, and Women who want to vote Republican, but how can you vote for a party that says that your lazy and shiftless, that your life and love is an abomination, that at the first chance we're gonna deport your Grandmother, and that theres NO SUCH THING AS RAPE, so go home and bake something!

????!!!!!