1. If your only goal is to obstruct the President and not have an agenda of your own.
Republicans continue to obstruct the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, while having no plan of their own to cover approximately 35,000,000 American citizens.
In Georgia, Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens boasted in a speech two months ago about a new state law that requires navigators to be icensed by his office. “Let me tell you what we’re doing: Everything in our power to be an obstructionist,” Hudgens said to cheers. National Journal Navigators help people through the Health Care enrollment process.
2. If you are waging a war against the rights of women
In 2012, John Boehner, pushed through a House bill that would weaken the Violence Against Women Act.
What is The Violence Against Women Act:
A sweeping response to the perception of increased violence against women in America, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 1994 was a broad-based law that created everything from funding of domestic-violence programs to new Civil Rights remedies for women who were victims of gender-based attacks. The scope of the law made it somewhat controversial, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that at least one provision of the act was unconstitutional. But VAWA still managed to have a far-reaching effect on gender-based crime,
And 168 Republicans also opposed a provision adding certain groups such as Native Americans. “Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who joined 10 other GOP women in voting against the measure, and said: ” I didn’t like the way it was expanded to include other different groups.” usnews.com As it turns out, the different groups, included not only native Americans, but also gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, and undocumented women who have been victims of domestic violence.