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What the Roadblock Republicans Are All About

The Roadblock Republicans have a very simple strategy: obstruct, obstruct, obstruct.

For the sake of only a few, they obstruct the passage of laws that would benefit everyone — such as affordable healthcare, clean energy legislation, tax reform, government accountability, a sane foreign policy, and protection of civil liberties for all.

By manipulating rules and procedures in Congress, they obstruct the passage of legislation to pursue their own partisan political agenda at the expense of our country’s common goals.

Using filibusters as a weapon and vetoes as a final solution, they obstruct the flow of legislation through the Senate in a deliberate plan to keep the Democratic majority from pursuing the public policies its members were elected to enact.

Their agenda is clear: block the passage of any and all progressive legislation until the current President has left the White House and the current Congress has made it through another election cycle.

The problem is that as long as they have at least 41 Senators who are willing to march along in lock-step, the Roadblock Republicans can keep right on filibustering until they’re red (not blue) in the face.

And as long as they have at least 34 Senators and 146 Representatives who are unwilling to stand up to the White House, the Roadblock Republicans can keep right on vetoing until the cows (but not the troops) come home.

And they’re not going to stop until they’re forced to. The only way to undo the damage of the Bush II years and get America back on track again is to get rid of those roadblocks and clear the way for progress.

And the only way to do that is by changing the counts in Congress. The Democrats might be in the majority on paper, but the minority on the Hill is still big enough to obstruct anything and everything it wants to.

The problem is obvious. The math is simple. So is the solution.

In order to defeat the Roadblock Republican agenda, we have to replace enough incumbent obstructionists with incoming Democrats to overcome their filibustering, vetoing, dog-in-the-manger tactics.

Some of them have already seen the writing on the wall and have announced that they would not be running for re-election in 2008. Others are stubbornly insisting on staying the course, and they won’t stand down unless they’re forced to.

And that’s the reason we built this website and launched this campaign to clear the Republican Roadblocks in Congress — to help people like you work together with people like us to get rid of people like them.