The GOP majority in the House is reaching for new heights of political absurdity this week with its 37th vote to kill all or part of the Affordable Care Act.

Let us briefly turn to political reality. There is absolutely zero chance that ObamaCare will be repealed while Democrats control the Senate and President Obama is in the White House. Reality also compels some mention of the fact that the GOP has never held a vote on any alternative plan for dealing with the nation’s out-of-control healthcare spending.

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But reality is a nuisance to Congressional Republicans intent on a brazen strategy to trip up the healthcare program before it can take its first step. Republicans do not want to give it any chance to be embraced by the public.

The attacks on ObamaCare are of a piece with the Republican strategy of using filibusters to delay and block Obama administration nominees, leaving key posts empty. A quarter of the filibusters in Senate history have been used against Obama’s nominees.

The press has largely snickered at the abusive behavior on Capitol Hill. Reporters treat it as predictable rough play between polarized parties. But the Republicans have taken the fight way beyond hardball.

The GOP is subverting the legitimate, Constitutional function of the government because its dislikes the liberal policies of a president who has been elected twice by the American people.

Just last week the Senate GOP engineered another breakdown. Every Republican member of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee failed to show up for a vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy Regina (Gina) McCarthyOVERNIGHT ENERGY: Energy Department proposes showerhead standards rollback after Trump complaints | Interior memo scaling back bird protections is 'contrary to law,' court rules | Former EPA chiefs call for agency 'reset' Former EPA chiefs call for agency 'reset' Azar arrives in Taiwan amid tensions with China MORE as the administration’s next head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

That sad act came a day after the GOP delayed for a second time any vote on the administration’s nominee for labor secretary, Thomas Perez Thomas Edward PerezClinton’s top five vice presidential picks Government social programs: Triumph of hope over evidence Labor’s 'wasteful spending and mismanagement” at Workers’ Comp MORE. This time, Republicans said the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee could not meet for a vote on Perez due to an arcane rule against panels acting after the Senate has been in session for two hours.

“This pointless obstruction is extremely disturbing,” said Sen. Tom Harkin Thomas (Tom) Richard HarkinThe Memo: Trump attacks on Harris risk backfiring Ernst challenges Greenfield to six debates in Iowa Senate race Biden unveils disability rights plan: 'Your voices must be heard' MORE (D-Iowa), the committee chair in describing the “procedural tricks,” being used to block Perez.

“This type of blanket, partisan obstruction used to be unheard of — now it has become an unacceptable pattern,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Harry Mason ReidSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Mellman: The likely voter sham Bottom line MORE (D-Nev.) of the GOP’s successful effort to block McCarthy.

The latest reminder of the “unacceptable pattern” comes from Republican Sen. David Vitter David Bruce VitterLysol, Charmin keep new consumer brand group lobbyist busy during pandemic Bottom line Bottom line MORE (La.). He promises to impose a silent filibuster threat requiring Perez to get 60 votes — not a simple majority — to win confirmation.

Meanwhile, the GOP is applying its obstruct-and-delay tactic to a bigger target.

The GOP’s top goal now is to throw the biggest possible wrench into the implementation of ObamaCare.

Last week, GOP leaders in the House and Senate announced that they would refuse to nominate any candidate to serve on the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was created as part of ObamaCare to cut Medicare’s reimbursement rates.

The Republican guerilla warfare against ObamaCare has already included charges that the administration is violating freedom of religion by requiring employers to offer insurance that covers contraceptives. Then came claims that the new law’s online application process is an administration ploy to register more Democrats.

Recently, they have trumpeted anxiety among Democrats about how ObamaCare will work.

They are on talk shows telling Americans ObamaCare is so bad even the president admits it will have “glitches and bumps.” They fail to add that the president said any big, new government program has “glitches and bumps.”

The latest GOP front in the war on ObamaCare is the refusal to fund efforts to educate the public about how the new healthcare law works.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Kathleen SebeliusThe Hill's Coronavirus Report: Mike Roman says 3M on track to deliver 2 billion respirators globally and 1 billion in US by end of year; US, Pfizer agree to 100M doses of COVID-19 vaccine that will be free to Americans The Hill's Coronavirus Report: Former HHS Secretary Sebelius gives Trump administration a D in handling pandemic; Oxford, AstraZeneca report positive dual immunity results from early vaccine trial Coronavirus Report: The Hill's Steve Clemons interviews Kathleen Sebelius MORE told the Senate Finance Committee in April that she requested $10 billion in implementation funds but got only $1 billion. Sen. Orrin Hatch Orrin Grant HatchBottom line Bottom line Senate GOP divided over whether they'd fill Supreme Court vacancy MORE (R-Utah.), the ranking Republican on the panel, accused Sebelius of improperly diverting money from other programs to pay for implementation. The secretary countered that, under the law, the administration is required to properly educate the public about its benefits.

Instead of casting more futile votes to repeal ObamaCare, the House GOP could be working on a “doc fix” to increase payments for doctors who serve Medicare patients. They are also wasting an opportunity to confirm a permanent leader for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a job key to the successful implementation of reform.

“Obstructing the successful implementation of the Affordable Care Act has become a priority for House Republicans,” Rep. Steve Israel (NY) head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said recently. “We’ve got to be proactive and not allow them to [bring it down] to serve their partisan goals.”

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Juan Williams is an author and political analyst for Fox News Channel.