The Campaign Against GOP ‘Obstructionists’
August 3, 2007, 9:08pm
Congress is set to begin its annual congressional break this weekend, but a dozen Republican senators being tagged as obstructionists may not find it to be a relaxing vacation.
Americans United for Change and the Campaign for America’s Future today announced plans for a campaign aimed at calling attention to the tactics of those senators in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia. An online video titled “The Plot To Bury Progress,” featuring actor Jason Alexander (George Costanza of “Seinfeld” fame), is part of the effort.
The campaign targets Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as “Senate Obstruction Leader” and lists 10 specific “obstruction votes.” The broader numbers for the year: 43 “filibusters” in seven months and 31 vetoes threatened by President Bush between May 1 and Aug. 1.
“The Republican minority in the Congress is now planning to use this August recess to rail against the ‘do-nothing’ Congress,” Campaign for America’s Future co-Director Robert Borsage wrote on the group’s blog. “Already the House and Senate minority leaders are trotting out laugh lines about the ‘post-office Congress’ that does nothing but name post offices and launch divisive witch hunts against the administration.
“This is akin to someone mugging the postman and then complaining that the mail isn’t delivered on time. In fact, the Bush White House and Republican minority have pursued a systematic and openly admitted strategy of obstruction.”
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August 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
I have written both Senator Lugar and Congressman Mike Pence and expressed my dismay at what is blatant obstruction of legislation such as that regarding Oil and commodity speculation and the Production Tax Credit. Lugar joined his party and voted against cloture on this legislation. Oil speculation by all accounts if brought under control give us the earliest opportunity to burst the oil price bubble. All being held hostage by big oil to open more land. It’s a sad day, when Senators like Lugar disregard the plight of the American people for party loyalty. This is an obvious organized attempt by the minority party to play the blame game. They have their fingers in the air regarding Drilling the OCS and elsewhere and are going to use the issue for political gain. They see the dismal outlook for the fall election and look at this as some kind of saving tactic.