GOP Legislators Exposing Themselves

Carl Herrera · Feb 12, 2011

Republican state lawmakers, emboldened by their swollen ranks, have a message for minorities, women, immigrants and the poor: It’s on!
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Charles M. Blow
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In the first month of the new legislative season, they have introduced a dizzying number of measures on hot-button issues in statehouses around the country as part of what amounts to a full-throttle mission to repeal, restrict and repress.

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this.

As Reuters pointed out this week, in the midterms, “Republicans gained nearly 700 state legislative seats and now have their largest numbers since the Great Depression, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.”

Judging by the lead-up to those elections, one could have easily concluded that the first order of business on Republicans’ agendas would be a laserlike focus on job creation and deficit reductions to the exclusion of all else. Not the case.
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Shows you where the Teabaggers' priorities are. "Forcible Rape" bill in the House is just tip of the iceberg. It's the same damn "culture war" issues again-- immigrants making life worse, welfare queen taking my money, gays destroying families, abortion, blah blah blah...

I don't actually think it's a wise thing to do. For example, while Jan Brewer might gain popularity scaring people about immigrants in Arizona (cuz it's Arizona), trying to do in other states won't do any favors for the GOP's 2012 chances. Also, if the economy does show some improvement by then, it'll be hard for the party that spend most its time working on fighting the culture war to get credit.

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