The GOP Gets Redder

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/07/10/the_gop_gets_redder.html

The GOP Gets Redder


Andrew Sullivan: "In the US, after being trounced in the last election, the GOP is actually veering even further right in their nihilism and sabotage. There is no figure in that party able to control the forces daily goosed by Ailes et al. It looks as if the fever hasn't broken but intensified: they are waging war now on every front - from new anti-abortion laws across the country to sabotaging the president's universal healthcare law, to preventing any functioning executive branch, and to go down screaming on immigration reform. Their bet now is the same bet as 2010: total opposition by all nonviolent means on all fronts, using the midterm elections, where their base turns out more reliably, to ratchet up the effect."

[bluestate10]

1. Republicans have mis-calculated.

The actions by republicans in Washington and around the country has turned off many voters and has caused voters that would normally sit out midterm elections to want to come out voting in the races that happen later this year and the races that happen in 2014. The only way to stop republican obstructionism is to defeat them soundly, sweep them aside and have them lording only over blood red states and blood red districts. Republicans are setting the stage for that party no longer being a factor in national, state and local elections.