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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Reich on that one-week extension for DHS
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich?fref=nfRobert Reich
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Congress passed a one-week extension of funding for the Department of Homeland Security just hours before the deadline on Friday night, but the right-wing Republicans in the House (some of whom were swept in after the 2014 midterms) are determined the next extension will include a ban on the Presidents immigration enforcement priorities. And if Boehner doesnt play along, theyre threatening to oust him as Speaker.
America has a long tradition of white mostly-southern radicals whod stop at nothing to get their way seceding from the Union in 1861, repudiating federal laws during Reconstruction, enacting Jim Crow laws, resisting desegregation orders in the 1950s, refusing to obey civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Fast forward to Newt Gingrich's takeover of the House in 1995, and the Gingrich-led government shutdown at the end of 1995. And then the 2011 showdown over raising the debt ceiling. On top of this, Republican-controlled states gerrymandered their districts and repressed the votes of minorities -- giving electoral advantage to the most radical right-wingers they could recruit. And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hating, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denying, science-denying, anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.
randys1
(16,286 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)"now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hating, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denying, science-denying, anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century."
Indeed !!!
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)question is how to get people to quit voting for the knuckle draggers because the situation will not improve until that issue is favorably resolved. They are a cancer on the country and only radical surgery to remove them will effect any change.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)How do we rid ourselves of these destructive lunatics and move on?
Gerrymandered districts make individual votes not count, lets a minority of crazy people have control.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)hahaha, I hope to see him live in Berkeley sometime.
moondust
(20,014 posts)probably figured the despotic authoritarians and their voters would eventually see the error of their ways and grow more reasonable over time.
I wouldn't bet on it.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)lastlib
(23,314 posts)(At least for the 99% of us)
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)LOL