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Not content to trash a sequester mechanism House Republicans themselves voted for, Congressional Republicans are now taking their obstruction a step further, with their ludicrous attempts to pin the pending “fiscal cliff” squarely on Democrats, even as they refuse to yield an inch in their drive to protect tax cuts for the wealthy at all costs.

One look at the news this afternoon shows who is to blame for the impending fiscal crisis, no matter the rhetorical knots Republicans are tying themselves into:

Recently, several states across the country have made unprecedented attempts to undermine voters’ rights across the country.  We knew these policies will keep many voters from being able to cast their constitutional right to vote, and according to a report released today by the Brennan Center for Justice, several obstacles, including transportation, office hours, and costs, make compliance with Voter ID laws a challenge:

We’ve been saying it all along: Republicans should work with us on a deficit reduction plan that prevents sequestration from occurring through a balanced mix of spending cuts and revenues. And today, defense firm Pratt & Whitney President David Hess agreed, urging Republicans to put everything – including revenues – on the table.  

The Hill reports:

Republicans have already wasted $50 million of taxpayer money, but don’t let that stop them from wasting even more time and taxpayer dollars attempting to roll back patient protections and put insurance companies back in control of health care.

From Politico:

“Next up in the summer ‘Obamacare’ reruns: more votes to defund the law.”

Just in case you missed it yesterday (or you wanted to read about the law House Republicans have wasted $50 million of taxpayer money in fruitless attempts to repeal), we here in the Democratic Whip Press Office wanted to pass along this op-ed from the New York Times entitled “Five Obamacare Myths.”

Looks like another high profile Republican is speaking out against Grover Norquist’s tax pledge.  According to the preview of the Parade magazine article coming out this Sunday, former President George H.W. Bush doesn’t believe the Americans for Tax Reform’s pledge is the answer to bringing down our deficit:

A look at the morning news highlights what we’ve been saying all along: Republicans spent yet another week on a political show vote to take away health care benefits and patient protections – wasting taxpayer dollars and time that could have been spent on growing the economy and putting Americans back to work.

Roll Call: Stop Us if You’ve Heard This One Before

After more than 30 votes to repeal the Affordable Care Act, you begin to hear a repeat of the same arguments.  So tonight, after two days of debate, we're going to leave you with the craziest one we heard this time around, courtesy of Majority Leader Eric Cantor.  Of all the claims Republicans have made against health care reform, this is one of the more remarkable ones:

“More and more Americans are going to go without health care because of this law.”