This past six weeks of war-on-women flogging is just the overture. Next, we're going to show the public how the GOP is aiming straight for their wallets, holding their tax cuts hostage while defending the wealthiest, obstructing recovery from the Second Bush Depression, attempting to gut services to veterans and the impoverished while fighting tooth and nail for defense contractors--all the awful shit they do and get away with every year without the scrutiny they're about to get.
The tax-cut legislation which was passed in December, 2010 was specifically constructed so that tax cuts would be the major issue of debate in the general election season of 2012, which unofficially arrived with the withdrawal of Rick Santorum. And sure enough, the President just kicked it into the public debate today. That alone is going to kill the reelection hopes of dozens of House Republicans and two or three Senators.
What comes along with that is going to be a train-wreck of spin and double-talk which will further erode public confidence in the GOP. If the President stays true to form, he and Harry Reid will game the legislative calendar so that Republican stonewalling now ensures that the budget debate spills into the August recess, preventing House Republicans from campaigning in their home districts at that critical time. Every asshole thing we expect them to do in Congress has already been set up to damage them in coming months, thanks to their highly predictable behavior (greed is quite predictable).
President Obama isn't just trying to win this election for himself. He's trying to take the Republican Party completely out of the game before the last two years of his second term, so that he can make sweeping policy changes with Congressional support, flush the Supreme Court, and ratchet down a series of reforms that will take decades for the other side to unravel.
His plan, which is clearly telegraphed in the legislation he has managed to extract through clever negotiation over the past two years, has been working astonishingly well. Now it's time to open the can of whoop-ass.
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