Mike Malloy blasts Tea Party freaks in Congress for their anti Obama austerity agenda

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Final segment of the July 24, 2013 "Mike Malloy Show":

OPENING BUMPER MUSIC: "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A Man After Midnight" by ABBA

Mike reads and comments on a New York Times report "House G.O.P. Sets New Offensive on Obama Goals" (making sure to substitute harsher words when warranted) and blasts Tea Party Republicans for their austerity plans like defunding ObamaCare and the EPA:

" On Tuesday, a House Appropriations subcommittee formally drafted legislation that would cut the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by 34 percent and eliminate his newly announced greenhouse gas regulations. The bill cuts financing for the national endowments for the arts and the humanities in half and the Fish and Wildlife Service by 27 percent.

For the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, Mr. Obama requested nearly $3 billion for renewable energy and energy efficiency programs — a mainstay of his economic agenda since he was first elected. The House approved $826 million. Senate Democrats want to give $380 million to ARPA-E, an advanced research program for energy. The House allocated $70 million.

A House bill to finance labor and health programs, expected to be unveiled Wednesday, makes good on Republican threats to eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The labor and health measure — for years the most contentious spending bill — will protect some of the White House's priorities, like Head Start, special education and the National Institutes of Health, but to do so education grants for poor students will be cut by 16 percent and the Labor Department by 13 percent, according to House Republican aides. "