Posted: 01 May 2011 07:43 PM PDT
By Wayne Bomgaars
The Republican Party has been working overtime since their midterm electoral takeover of the US House and many state legislatures, and governorships. What they’ve been fighting for however is pretty shocking to most Americans, resulting in recall elections in key districts around the country. Below is a mega list of what the GOP has been up to along with multiple citations.
- Fighting their #1 goal to make sure President Obama does not get a second term
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- Fighting non-existent death panels
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- Fighting non-existent threat of Sharia law in the US
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- Fighting to let woman die if an abortion would save her life
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- Fighting in SD & NE to make murder of abortion doctor be justifiable homicide
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- Fighting to reduce and/or get rid of Social Security
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- Fighting to destroy Medicare
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- Fighting to get rid of NPR
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- Fighting to destroy the non-existent Acorn
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- Fighting to prove our president is a non-citizen
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- Fighting to prove our president is a Muslim
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- Fighting to repeal the healthcare bill
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- Fighting to redefine rape
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- Fighting to support Mubarak
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- Fighting to give tax breaks to the rich
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- Fighting in South Dakota to require people to have guns
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- Fighting to discredit the first lady
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- Fighting against improving infrastructure
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- Fighting against programs for the poor
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- Fighting against saving the auto industry
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- Fighting to allow pollution
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- Fighting for Big Oil & Big Oil fights for them
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- Fighting against funding science
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- Fighting to ignore global warming
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- Fighting against gay marriage
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- Fighting against gays in the military
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- Fighting against allowing gays to adopt
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- Fighting against gay hate crime legislation
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- Fighting to block any legislation proposed by democrats, regardless of content
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- Fighting to stop extended benefits for the unemployed
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- Fighting Net Neutrality
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- Fighting to kill Big Bird
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- Fighting to allow racial profiling
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- Fighting to keep $40 billion in oil company subsidies
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- Fighting to prevent judges and cabinet members being confirmed for no other reason than because President Obama nominated them
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- Fighting to allow guns in church in Arkansas and Louisiana
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- Fighting against women’s right to choose
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- Fighting to reduce funding for education
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- Fighting to get rid of the Department of Education
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- Fighting to make the Patriot Act permanent
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- Fighting against high speed rail
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- Fighting against Veteran’s benefits
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- Fighting against healthcare for 9/11 responders
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- Fighting to deny life-saving transplants resulting in deaths(Arizona)
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- If jobs are lost, “…so be it”
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- Fighting to kill Head Start
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- Fighting in Wisconsin to use National Guard against protesters
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- Fighting to defund healthcare reform
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- Fighting to break unions
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- Fighting in Texas to pass a bill to allow students to have concealed weapons on campus
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- Fighting in Iowa to refuse services to people in a marriage that violates their religious beliefs (On the other hand, gays)
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- Fighting in Georgia to require gold or silver to pay state debts
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- Fighting in Montana to declare global warming a natural occurrence which is beneficial to welfare and business climate
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- Fought to allow torture
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- Fighting to end foreclosure aid programs
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- Fighting to repeal laws giving equal pay for women
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- Fighting to eliminate or limit the Securities Exchange Commission
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- Fighting to kill last year’s Wall Street reform law by cutting off funds to agencies in charge of enforcing it
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- Fighting to save incandescent light bulbs
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- Fighting to save styrofoam
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- Fighting to cut $600 million from IRS tax enforcement (Mike Huckabee wants to abolish the IRS entirely)
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- Fighting in Wisconsin to ban crank calls
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- Fighting to restrict certain people from voting
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- Fighting in Michigan to be able to impose Financial Marshal Law
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- Fighting to defund poison control centers
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- Fighting to take voting away from college students
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- Fighting to Weaken Financial Reform
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- Fighting in Maine to undo child labor laws
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- Fighting for huge tax cuts for corporations
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- Fighting to reduce funding to life saving tsunami warning systems
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- Fighting to repeal the 14th Amendment
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- Fighting to repeal the 17th Amendment
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- Fighting (GOP rep. Paul Broun) to repeal both the 16th & 17th amendment
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- Fighting to create and pass a bill that says the House doesn’t need the senate or the president to pass a budget. Basically about as unconstitutional as you can get.
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Editor’s note – this is the second contribution to News Junkie Post by Wayne Bomgaars. The first was a collaborative projectwith others documenting the thousands of accomplishments of President Barack Obama and the Democrats from January 2009-November 2010. Wayne is a power house on Reddit under the code name backpackwayne, where he originally compiled this compendium.
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