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:
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A one-year delay
to implementation of “Obamacare”
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Concessions to
drill fossil fuels on public land
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Tort reform
(remember that popular yesterday girl?)
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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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