Dispatch from the fever swamp
by digby
I thought you’d want to know what their demands are:
Open Letter to House and Senate Republican Leaders
Defund Obama’s Disastrous Policies or be Complicit in the Destruction of Your Country
Due to the disastrous policies of President Barack Obama America is at a tipping point.
Illegal aliens are flooding our country, swamping our schools and emergency services and destroying the quality of life for millions of American families by inflating the labor pool, depressing wages and driving the crime rate ever upward.
We demand you defund Obama’s de facto amnesty program in this year’s Continuing Resolution (CR) and use the power of the purse to reestablish the rule of law in this great country. We won’t be fooled by another “show vote,” anyone who votes for the Rule to bring to the Floor a Continuing Resolution that funds Obama’s de facto amnesty for illegal aliens is just as guilty as one who votes for the bill itself.
The resettlement of hundreds of thousands of alleged refugees from radical Muslim terrorist hotspots represents an existential threat to our national security. Through this program Obama is importing jihad directly into the American heartland – and forcing taxpayers to fund it.
We demand you use this year’s CR to withhold funds from Obama’s “refugee” resettlement program until such time as air tight security investigations of any alleged refugee from a Muslim terrorist hotspot are in place that will guarantee that the safety of American citizens will not be compromised by this threat. We won’t be fooled by another “show vote,” anyone who votes for the Rule to bring to the Floor a Continuing Resolution that funds importing jihad to America is just as guilty as one who votes for the bill itself.
Obamacare is in a long-predicted death spiral. The socialist health insurance co-ops that Obama and the Democrats imposed upon America are going bankrupt or closing and now Democrats want to use taxpayer funds to bail them out. Republicans have been promising that they would defund Obamacare ever since the Tea Party wave swept them back into the House majority in 2010, now is the time to fulfill that promise or face the wrath of conservative voters.
We demand you defund Obamacare in this year’s CR and that the CR include an absolute prohibition on any taxpayer funds going to bailout a failed or failing Obamacare co-op or other health insurance provider. We won’t be fooled by another “show vote,” anyone who votes for the Rule to bring to the Floor a Continuing Resolution that funds an Obamacare bailout is just as guilty as one who votes for the bill itself.
Finally, for many years by funding Planned Parenthood, Republicans have been complicit in the moral sewer that is the American abortion industry. Billions of dollars have gone to kill millions of babies, and even more reprehensibly, the Center for Medical Progress undercover videos have demonstrated that Planned Parenthood traffics in the dismembered bodies of human babies.
We demand that you defund Planned Parenthood and that the use of federal taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions under the guise of “women’s health care” be ended once and for all. Murdering babies is not health care and anyone who votes for the Rule to bring to the Floor a Continuing Resolution that funds Planned Parenthood is just as guilty as one who votes for the bill itself.
We refuse to accept another “show vote” where Republican leaders give political cover to those Republican Members of Congress who refuse to stand for conservative principles. We are watching and we will remember when it comes time to vote in the 2016 Republican Congressional Primary.
The fact that their representatives have failed to do all this already is why they are so angry.
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