GOP war on ..everything Obama

This is just the opening page of an article about today's GOP and their ruthless strategy ..you really should read the entire article ..and to think these people may increase their power after the next election is really both sicking and freighting...

Ways Rabid Republicans Are Declaring War On America
Some of the biggest political fights in a generation are taking shape.
July 25, 2013 |

The GOP, the party led by angry white men and libertarian corporatists, is ratcheting up its political warfare against everyday Americans with unmatched brazenness.

In Congress, Republicans in both chambers have launched sweeping attacks on long-held centrist priorities and have renewed threats to block Obamacare. These attacks are seen in House bills slashing spending in almost every federal program except for the military and domestic policing for the federal fiscal year starting October 1. Anti-poverty, education, human services, environmental protection, energy, labor, Wall St. oversight—all face cuts averaging 20 percent, although some areas face cuts by a third or more.

These budget bills are part of an escalating fight over funding federal government and raising the debt ceiling. In 2011, the GOP used the debt limit fight to nearly shut down the government, creating chaos that undermined the weak economy. In 2013, House ideologues have delayed adopting budgets with the most draconian cuts until the last weeks, creating a crisis atmosphere to try to ram through their horrendous bills.

On Thursday, for example, the Appropriations Committee delayed its scheduled release of what GOP staffers said would be the details of $40 billion in cuts to next year’s federal human services, labor and education budgets. Two weeks ago, the House passed a farm bill with zero funds for anti-poverty food stamps. In contrast, the House’s FY2014 military and police budgets were on par with 2013 funding levels.

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Rabid Republicans are also acting with renewed zeal to roll back voting rights in key Southern states. In North Carolina and Texas, GOP-led legislatures are resurrecting a catalogue of Jim Crow-era barriers to minority voting, in response to the U.S. Supreme Court overturning of the 1965 Voting Right Act’s toughest enforcement provision. In North Carolina, the GOP wants to repeal 20 years of best practices that made North Carolina a model of fair and accessible elections. In Texas, the GOP wants to revise political districts to dilute minority representation and pass tougher voter ID laws.

The White House is not sitting still. On Wednesday, the president began a nationwide tour to tout an economic agenda favoring the middle class. He attacked Republicans for “an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals.” On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department would use the still-standing sections of the Voting Rights Act to try to stop the GOP in Texas and North Carolina, although election law experts say that is a risky “ go for broke” strategy based on the conclusion that this Congress will do nothing to restore the Voting Rights Act.

Stepping back, the country seems poised on the brink of a new era of political warfare, with the GOP following Niccolò Machiavelli’s advice in The Prince that one’s enemies must be annihilated so they cannot fight back.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/6-ways-rabid-republicans-are-declaring-war-america?page=0%2C0