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This seems like a good reference to keep around.
The Dirty Thirty Politicus
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It seems conservatives have descended into madness, a sort of group psychosis, a collective desire to leap off the cliff in a form of ritual mass suicide, taking the rest of us with them. Rather than legislation to resolve any of our real problems, they have dedicated themselves to grid locking government so that nothing at all gets one outside of their social agenda.
What is an American to do?
Well, we can fight back against the propaganda and misinformation. On March 14, 2011 we first published a list of thirty pieces of Republican legislation that Republicans are using to destroy America and called it The Dirty Thirty.
That original list has been updated several times and grown significantly although the list is incomplete, given there have been a thousand bills alone restricting a womans right to abortion. If most of the laws directed toward Womens Reproductive Rights seem petty and punitive, well
they are.
Some readers have objected to the use of the term war in this series of articles but I believe in calling things for what they are and there is no other way to describe the sustained legislative attack on womens reproductive rights, marriage equality, the environment, education, children, the poor and unemployed and the middle class.
The War on Womens Reproductive Rights...............
Anti-abortion Laws....................
War on Birth Control/Contraception......................
The War on Divorce.....................
The War on the Girl Scouts....................
The War on Church and State........................
The War on Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)....................
The War on National Public Radio (NPR)......
The War on Desegregation..................
The War on High-Speed Rail...................
o Gas prices are rising and President Obama wants to improve the nations infrastructure through the introduction of high-speed rail corridors in areas where they would be particularly effective, and linking the Midwests population centers with those of the East Coast. The Republicans and Tea Party are opposed.
In Wisconsin, Governor Walker rejected an $810 million federal grant for a high-speed rail line between Milwaukee and Madison, declaring the project dead.
In Ohio, Governor John Kasich turned down nearly $400 million from the Department of Transportation for a high-speed rail line between Cleveland and Cincinnati.
In Florida, Governor Rick Scottsiding with his backers in the Tea Partyrejected $2.4 billion in Department of Transportation funds for a rail line between Tampa and Orlando
The War on Marriage Equality and the Anti-Gay Agenda
The War on Net Neutrality
The War on Obama: Birthers and Anti-Obama Legislation
The War on Unions and Collective Bargaining/War on Middle Class
o Class Warfare
o Right to Work Laws
o Attacking Unions/Collective Bargaining
o Deregulating Wall Street The Great Recession Part Two Plan
o The War on Lunch Breaks
The War on Child Labor Laws
The War on Islam/Islamophobia
The War on the Federal Government (Tentherism)
The War on Gun Control
The War on Consumers
The War on Democracy
Michigan passed a Financial Martial Law bill, which essentially established a Republican dictatorship in place of democracy by turning over to unelected emergency managers the powers to supersede legally elected local governments without oversight from those legally constituted local governments. Noami Kleinidentifies Michigans policies as an example of shock doctrine put into practice.
Michigan republicans have also to explain how they get 73 votes when there arent 73 Republicans to vote and no Democrats voted for the measure and how they manage to actually count 73 votes in three seconds and why they then refuse a perfectly reasonable Democratic request for a recount. Obviously, democracy is not something Michigan Republicans are interested in.
The War on Jobs
o House Democrats have demonstrated that in their first 202+ days in office, House Republicans have not only failed to deliver even one job creation bill, they have passed legislation to kill 1.9 million jobs.
H.R. 1. According to Mark Zandi this legislation amounts to -700,000 jobs
H.R. 2. According to the Council of Economic Advisors this legislation amounts to -300,000 jobs
H.Con.Res. 34. According to Mark Zandi, this legislation amounts to -900,000 jobs
The War on Science, the Environment and Health
The War on Hungry Children and Families
The War on Education/Historical Revisionism
o War on Evolution/Creationism/Intelligent Design
Shutting Down the Government
The War on Anti-Bullying Laws
Doomsday Legislation
The War on Freedom of Expression
Youve pushed us white folks too far!
This piece of legislation deserved a category of its own. If youve ever doubted that Republicans and Tea Partiers are wasting everyones time and money rather than trying to fix whats wrong with America, doubt no longer:
o Never happy with political correctness the Republicans in the North Dakota legislature passed a piece of legislation, House Bill 1263, which was signed into law Gov. Jack Dalrymple, which prohibits the University of North Dakota from changing their 90-year-old Native American nickname the Fighting Sioux in compliance with the NCAAs policy on mascots deemed hostile or abusive toward Native Americans.
The War on Privacy
o From RawStory: H.R. 3523, introduced last year by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), purports to help safeguard American corporations from espionage and cyber crime by allowing the NSA and other federal spy agencies to work directly with large corporate players, funneling them classified information on threat assessments to enable companies to defend themselves. While the bill is openly supported by companies like AT&T, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Facebook, Boeing and Intel. The bill, now being considered by the House Select Committee on Intelligence, warns the ACLU, would allow corporations to share personal and private data with the government and without oversight.
The War on the New World Order? Really?
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KansDem
(28,498 posts)If it's a noun, chances are Republicans oppose it. Both concrete and abstract.