If Republicans take the House – which they won’t succeed in doing – they’ll be fighting among themselves over which to do first: Undo everything Democrats have done or impeach Obama. And they will impeach him, the damn fools, as their last hurrah before the whole country slaps them down in 2012.
In the absence of any tangible or new policy solutions, Republicans are promising one concrete action should they win a majority in Congress: government shutdown. Picking up on former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s two-tiered strategy, many Republicans are supporting Gingrich’s call to defund “every radical bill passed by the [Democratic] machine,” particularly the health care reform law.
Government shutdown would seriously jeopardize aid to vulnerable populations like veterans, Social Security and Medicare recipients, and 33 million Americans in need of health insurance. To defend such a disastrous strategy, Republicans are now shifting the blame on to President Obama.