There has been an ongoing repugican crusade to eradicate any
legislative accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers
took control of the House after the 2010 midterms.…
In August 2012, teabagger Steve King (r-IA) told
an audience he would “introduce one all-encompassing bill to repeal
everything Obama has signed into law.” King was not just intent on
deleting the Affordable Care Act and the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (stimulus) out of existence, but everything the
President supported to erase the President’s agenda from the history
books. The repugicans lust for a veritable reset to reassert what they
perceive as legitimate and legal American governance (white repugican
dominance). Although King never followed through on his threat, there
has been an ongoing repugican crusade to eradicate any legislative
accomplish this President supported since the Koch brothers took control
of the House after the 2010 midterms.
By now, only comatose Americans are unaware that repugicans lied through their collective teeth throughout the 2010
campaign that their entire focus would be creating jobs or governing for
the people. Instead they immediately voted to repeal the President’s
health law, railed against the stimulus, decried financial reform,
attacked women’s rights, became fervent job killers, and violated one of
their most solemn pledges to the American people. In their phony
“Pledge to America” of 2010, repugicans swore they would put an abrupt
end to packing must-pass government funding legislation with esoteric
provisions for special interests that had nothing whatsoever to do with
funding the government. That solemn oath, like their pledge to create
jobs, has been regularly violated as long as they have controlled the
House and at least repugicans admitted that was the case in the
so-called CRomnibus funding bill.
The repugican, Bill Flores (TX), said it is true
that repugican leadership certainly broke their 2010 Pledge to America
in the CRomnibus, but he justified violating the people’s trust because
an African American man is President. The idiot repugican said,
like mormon’s who justify lying if it is for dog, that it is worth breaking an oath to the American people if the ends justify the means.
According to Flores, deleting legislation the
President signed justifies breaking the Pledge to America. Flores did
not vote for the CRomnibus because “an unlawful (Black) President” issued the same executive orders as white repugican pretenders. In the “Pledge,” it says, “We
will end the practice of packaging unpopular bills with ‘must-pass’
legislation to circumvent the will of the American people. Instead, we
will advance major legislation one issue at a time.” However,
breaking the pledge is the price repugicans are more than willing to
pay to undo President Obama’s agenda; starting with legislation that
passed during the two years that Democrats controlled the White House
and both branches of Congress after the 2008 election.
“Of course it is a violation,” Flores said. “But
it’s one of the byproducts of having to clean up really bad legislation
(legislation Wall Street and the Kochs hate) and it’s really one of the
few ways we can have to delete bad policy. The ends justified the
means; I hate to say that, but yes.” Flores is still a liar; he
does not hate to say it and he knows it. The only thing remarkable about
anything Flores says is that he admitted repugicans are liars in a
public forum even though it is common knowledge the dirty lying liars
only raison d’être is eradicating anything President Obama signed into
law during his first two years in office, or has supported since then.
For example, repugicans began their votes to repeal
the Affordable Care Act immediately on taking control of the House in
2011 and have attempted to insert riders in other budgets and
legislation to defund the health law. The rider to give Wall Street free
reign to decimate the economy again with phony derivatives is a result
of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation that repugicans have
tried to eliminate
since taking control of the House. This time, they may have succeeded
with the valuable assistance of 57 Democrats whose fealty is not to the
people. One wonders how those Democrats, many who voted for Dodd-Frank,
sleep at night knowing they are complicit in deleting a law they likely
helped pass.
While most Democrats actually stood strong with
President Obama’s efforts to address climate change by blocking a Koch
rider restricting the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, 57 of them
voted for the Koch brothers’ cuts to the EPA’s budget. Republicans have
done their due diligence to block the President’s environmental efforts
over the past six years and boasted they slashed the EPA budget by 21%
since the brothers bought the House in 2010. Apparently 57 Democrats
want some of the Koch credit now and going forward. The Kochs have
bigger aspirations in the next session of Congress as evidenced by the
rider they attached prohibiting enforcement of the Clean Water Act; a bill 57 Democrats voted for.
The repugicans are still incensed at the President for
pushing to end the shrub-era tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy, and because
they cannot reinstate the insane tax cuts unilaterally, the Kochs and
Grover Norquist directed them to make more drastic cuts
to the IRS enforcement budget. Because the President has criticized the
Supreme Court’s Citizen United ruling, repugicans inserted a rider
eliminating the IRS’s authority to investigate, enforce compliance, or
reject applications of 501(c) social welfare campaign organizations with
“wingnut” in their name.
Because President Obama has not allowed Israel set
American Middle East policy, repugicans included a rider acknowledging
Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu’s authority by cutting all assistance to the
Palestinian Authority if members of United Nations, or any of its
agencies, dared to make it a member. Netanyahu has already made it
abundantly clear that President Obama is not acquiescing to Israel’s
supremacy, or recognizing that Israel controls American Middle East
assistance. The repugicans gave that authority to Israel based on its
authority to decide which nation is allowed membership into the world
organization. It is just another means to eliminate the President’s
record on Middle East policy because he does not acknowledge that Israel
controls who receives American assistance.
The repugicans even added a rider
in the CRomnibus to keep the phony “Benghazi” scandal going throughout
the rest of the President’s tenure in the White House. The rider
prohibits any assistance to Libya until Republicans are satisfied that
the country is cooperating with criminal Darrel Issa’s investigation
into the attack on the U.S. consulate. This is despite the House
already putting any scandalous machinations, cover ups, or wrongdoing by
the Obama Administration or former Sec of State Hillary Clinton to
rest.
To show how serious, and petty, the repugican
effort to delete anything this President accomplished, they put a rider
in an appropriations budget banning the President from transferring
detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States or elsewhere. They
also prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars to fund Obama Administration
executive branch portraits. They even dealt a blow to First Lady
Michelle Obama’s school lunch standards by giving red state school
districts authority to allow students to eat unhealthy school lunches.
The CRomnibus, on its own, although not an ideal
budget according to President Obama or any reasonable American, is
likely as good as it can be considering repugicans control the House.
However, those Koch brother and Wall Street riders, all esoteric to
funding the government, are a direct assault on President Obama’s agenda
and an attempt to eliminate anything he has signed, supported, or
accomplished since he has been President.
Now that the Senate passed the CRomnibus, Americans
can rest easy repugicans cannot shutter the government for a little
over nine months, but they have taken a big step toward deleting this
President’s accomplishments. It is a big step they could not have made
without the valuable assistance of 57 Democrats who are obviously more
terrified of crossing the Koch brothers than supporting their party’s
President and for that they deserve the same outrage decent Americans
have for dirty lying racist repugicans.
