The Tea-o-Cratic Party is made up of radical religious people who are not secular and don't believe in Separation of Church and State. As a result, they believe that government as it stands now should be destroyed and replaced by a Christian Theocracy. This is the real basis for their opposing any legislation that Obama is offering. The Republicans have been taken over by these theocrats and that explains their obstinate adherence to a totally phony "austerity" program which is calculated to destroy the Obama presidency and castigate Democrats. Both the Democrats and Republicans are in denial and this issue doesn't get mentioned as a result. There are some libertarians who are opposed on philosophical ratrher than religious grounds and followers of Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand but they are in the minority when it comes to the Tea-o-Cratic Party. In the meantime, the Koch Brothers and Karl Rove are playing the religious card for all it's worth by supporting it as a means to their ends.

It's not only an economic war that governs Republican policy but a Culture War as well.