The GOP Plan Lives

I've been saying for months now that the GOP Plan is to kill health care reform and destroy Obama.  It turns out our old friend Judd "Sure I'll be your Commerce Guy NOT!" Gregg literally has...The GOP Plan.  Written down. 

"We, the minority party, must use the tools we have under Senate rules to insist on a full, complete and fully informed debate on the health care legislation - as well as all legislation - coming before the Senate," Gregg wrote in a letter to Republican colleagues yesterday. "As laid out in the attached document, we have certain rights before measures are considered on the floor as well as certain rights during the actual consideration of measures. Every Republican senator should be familiar with the scope of these rights, which serve to protect our ability to speak on behalf of the millions of Americans who depend on us to be their voice during this historic debate."

Gregg says Republicans should be prepared to filibuster every motion, "with the exception of Conference Reports and Budget Resolutions, most such motions are fully debatable and 60 votes for cloture is needed to cut off extended debate."

And Republicans, he says, should be prepared to gum up even the most standard operating procedures in the Senate. "[The] Senate operates on a presumptive quorum of 51 senators and quorum calls are routinely dispensed with by unanimous consent. If UC is not granted to dispose of a routine quorum call, then the roll must continue to be called. If a quorum is not present, the only motions the leadership may make are to adjourn, to recess under a previous order, or time-consuming motions to establish a quorum that include requesting, requiring, and then arresting Senators to compel their presence in the Senate chamber."

Filibuster every bill.  Force a quorum for every piece of Senate business. Paralyze the Senate all the time, every time.  Delay. Obstruct.  Blockade.  Bring Washington to a grinding halt.

This is the GOP Plan for America:  To stop our lawmaking process cold because they don't like being in the minority.  Despite the people's will that threw them out of office, they invoke the same will of the people to say that America wants them to stop the elected majority through every means possible, every time, all the time.

It's disgusting bullying.  But what do you expect from the fanatics in the GOP?