"GOP madness on display" by Katrina vanden Heuvel

[applegrove]

GOP madness on display

by Katrina vanden Heuvel at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-gop-madness-on-display/2013/09/17/00a9c274-1efd-11e3-94a2-6c66b668ea55_story.html?tid=rssfeed

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The House and Senate Republican leaders want more deep cuts in spending that will cost jobs, and cut investments vital to our future in everything from education to R&D. For the tea-party right led by Texas freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, that’s not sufficient. Backed by deep-pocket outside groups like the Club for Growth, they are calling for shutting down the government unless Obamacare is defunded.

This is simple madness. President Obama once again laid out out a common sense, modest agenda on the budget. Make investments in education and infrastructure vital to our competitiveness. Don’t let immediate cuts sabotage our faltering recovery. Get our books in order with a balanced plan that combines asking corporations and the rich to pay their fair share with cutting wasteful programs and bloat.

House Republicans spurn these proposals out-of-hand. They want deeper cuts, all from domestic programs like education and clean water. They want more, not less money for the military. They oppose any increase in taxes, even objecting to closing down the tax dodges that reward companies for stashing money and reporting profits abroad. They want to repeal Obamacare without replacing it. They even are moving a bill to cut billions out of food stamps, a program that protects families in trouble from going hungry. And they are so divided among themselves that they have rejected their own leadership’s proposals to keep government open.

To date, Republicans have gotten the best of each of the budget crises they have manufactured. They’ve succeeded in slashing government spending at a time when the economy needs a boost. They preserved most of the Bush tax cuts, still skewed to the affluent. They’ve protected the subsidies and tax dodges of the rich and corporations, insuring a continued flow of money to their coffers.


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[Blue Owl]

1. Next show 30 minutes

Unlike the Coasta Concordia, Carnival Cruz is unsalvageable.

[mindwalker_i]

2. Damn, reading through the comments sectionmade me depressed

The "conservative" people there are just, friggin, incredible. In one case, there was a side discussion about something, and one person essentially said, "so why do you liberals all want to make single moms?" I suppose when one makes it their policy to completely demonize and deligitimize those who don't agree with them, this is what you get. Unfortunately it seems to be the way the entire Republican party works. Or most of it.

[Iliyah]

3. Because they think that single moms are the death of the American society

that women should make lots of babies and do household chores like that movie "The Step-ford Wives" which is soooo ideal for the GOPer man. Conservatives blame Liberals for their shortcomings and shortsightedness.

Over all they claim they are the chosen ones by their GAWD.

[Snake Plissken]

4. The Republicans main goal had not changed, they are punishing American citizens for electing Obama.

This insanity isn't suddenly going to change, they need to be voted out of office

[Populist_Prole]

5. Within a half-dozen years most of their base will have died off or not lucid enough to be relevant

And the back fill rate of replacement of homeschooled fundy nutjobs are less than the loss at the higher age end. Ergo, their big "now or never" push to solidify whatever gains they think they've made.