The #1 priority of the Republican Party?

[kentuck]

It is to make Barack Obama a one-term President. Mitch McConnell has stated so in public comments.

Above the economy, above the national defense, above the well-being of the American people. And they are well on their way.

The Repubs took over the House in January of this year and the already weak growth rate has dropped like a rock.

The very worst thing you can do is to make spending cuts during such times. It almost guarantees there will be very few jobs and very little growth in the next year or so. That almost guarantees defeat for Barack Obama. At least, that is what the Republicans are betting on.

They have a psychological profile of this President. He will always put his country over his Party. He will fold if any government program is threatened. Now that the debt limit issue is out of the way, what will be their next target? If the President will extend the Bush taxcuts one more time, they will realease the hostages?

[liberal N proud]

1. That and more - here is an interesting character sketch of the GOP written in January

A Character Sketch: Republican Party Priorities

By: David Dayen Tuesday January 25, 2011

Just so we understand who we’re dealing with – and why it would be worth it to design policies that work instead of ones that cater to the opposition or expectations about public opinion – here’s just a sampling of stories about our new Republican overlords, who only control one branch of government but might as well control three.

First, they don’t want anything to do with job creation. That’s right out.

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Essentially, House Republicans want to keep going programs essentially equal to a year’s worth of the entire budget cuts listed in the RSC document. As Eugene Robinson indicates, “The conservatives want to end funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Energy Star program, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . . . you get the picture. Put together, these expenditures would not begin to pay for, say, the $13 billion Marine Corps landing craft that Gates plans to kill because we are no longer fighting World War II.”

Oh, and if they don’t get their way on spending, they will crash the full faith and credit of the US government.

And among the many enlightening measures that the Republicans are pursuing right from the start of their session in the House include killing all private insurance participation on legal abortions, and trying to stop gay marriage in Washington, DC.

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http://news.firedoglake.com/2011/01/25/a-character-sketch-republican-party-priorities/

They are radicals who will take the country down to achive their goals.

[Tennessee Gal]

2. Precisely right. nt

[Somawas]

3. Their #1` priority is to dismantle the New Deal

and destroy the country they claim to love.