What do Republicans want America to become?  From their recent actions, it appears they envision a polluted country where mercury and other pollutants are a daily hazard, threatening human health.  It’s not clear why Republicans want a country full of dangerous pollution, under constant threat of growing storm frequency due to climate change. They seem to believe that corporate profits will make our lives better than anything else, and clean air and water are secondary to corporate profits.  It’s hard to imagine such backwards, anti-health thinking.  The GOP legacy from this Congress is becoming more and more threatening to everyone in the U.S.  Think Progress sums this up well in this article below, but they blame the Tea Party, when it’s really the entire GOP doing this, not just the Tea Party faction. We really have to fight back against the right-wing attitude that the environment and our health are secondary to corporate profits, because our very lives depend on it. “The rise of the Tea Party in Congress has inspired an all-out assault on public health and a clean environment. Several freshman Republicans have joined Newt Gingrich’s call to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency. Republicans in the House Energy Committee unanimously [...]