“NEGOTIATING” REPUBLICANAZI STYLE: PART FOUR (OF SIX)
For the postwar Republican party, Adolf Hitler’s my-way-or-else “negotiating” methods would become standard operating procedure. During the summer of 2011, Republicans refused to raise the debt ceiling...
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In April, 2011, the United States government almost shut down over Republican demands about subsidized pap smears. During a late-night White House meeting with President Barack Obama and key...
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In 2011, Republicans threatened to destroy the Nation’s credit rating unless their budgetary demands were met. President Barack Obama could have...
View ArticleCOUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Once again, Republicans are ruthlessly playing “chicken” with the nation’s financial security. During the Presidency of Barack Obama, Republicans threatened to plunge the country into defaulting on...
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President Joseph Biden acts as if he must accept Republican extortion demands or watch the country’s economy collapse. But there are legal remedies for punishing such criminal behavior. Biden needs...
View ArticlePREVENTING THE NEXT REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
In the waning hours of September 30, the United States averted the latest Republican shutdown of the Federal Government. President Joseph Biden signed into law the stopgap bill to avert a government...
View ArticlePREVENTING THE NEXT REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
In facing off against President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proved the embodiment of Niccolo Machiavelli’s “lion and the fox.” Trump couldn’t believe that Pelosi meant it when she...
View ArticlePREVENTING THE NEXT REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
Republicans have repeatedly utilized the same my-way-or-else “negotiating” strategy as Nazi Germany’s Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. And Democrats—out of cowardice or an ignorance of history—have...
View ArticlePREVENTING THE NEXT REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
One reason why a handful of House Republicans threatened to shut down the Federal Government by October 1: Calling themselves “budget deficit hawks,” they demanded huge cuts in non-military spending....
View ArticlePREVENTING THE NEXT SHUTDOWN: PART FIVE (END)
Republicans are already gearing up for their next extortionate threat: Do what we want or we’ll shut down the Federal Government. Among the consequences: “If you don’t send out Social Security...
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