Friday, September 27, 2013

GOP Ransom America for Right Wing Agenda Yet Again

A budget standoff, a threat by the GOP to shut down government unless they get their way and a President trying to find a reasonable compromise with a petulant child who doesn’t really believe in compromise, or democracy for that matter. Sound familiar? Of course! Continuing to employ a strategy first used after Clinton’s election, the GOP are at it again, this time demanding:
-         A one-year delay to implementation of “Obamacare”
-         Concessions to drill fossil fuels on public land
-         Tort reform (remember that popular yesterday girl?)
-         Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid
And unless they get their big business agenda passed, they will let the government shut down. This comes on the heels of a vote to cut food stamps while providing additional benefits to corporations and big agribusiness.


Essentially, as Salon columnist Andrew O’Hehir recently argued, we are entering the GOP “Hunger Games” era (Salon) – where any attempt to cloak their agenda is subsumed under their relentless push to give America, its resources and its citizens to the new corporate and Wall Street plutocracy to use and abuse as they please. One wonders if the rest of us will ever wake up in time to stop them, or just ask for sleeping pills to complement our metaphoric executioner’s song. 

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