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| Baron Bodissey on election results |
| 2014-11-05 |
| As you all know, today was Election Day here in the USA, the midterm elections for Congress. As of this writing it seems that the Republicans have gained control of the Senate, and substantially increased their majority in the House of Representatives. A decade ago I might have found the news exhilarating, but not this time. It's more like: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." I'll venture a few predictions for the next two years under an all-Republican Congress: 1. The first thing the new Republican majority in the Senate will do when they are seated in January will be to "reach across the aisle." 2. For the next two years, anything bad that happens in the United States will be blamed on the Republicans in Congress. 3. President Obama -- or rather, the Marxists on his staff who direct his actions -- will, in classic Cloward-Piven fashion, make sure that plenty of bad things happen as soon as the new Congress convenes. 4. The Republican majority in the Senate will gladly assist in the passage of some form of "amnesty". 5. The Republican-controlled Congress will not repeal ObamaCare. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Republicans I am sure want to pull the country our of all the messes the previous regime has caused. To do this while subject to veto from the president and the real prospect of the president and federal organizations of all kinds actinh unconstitutionally on their own against the will of congress, is an extremely difficult task. You should be suggesting ideas for helping get useful things done, rather than starting immediately to blame the republicans for not succeeding. You sound like a disgruntled Democrat, sneering at the opposition rather than as someone interested in working for the future of us all. Get off your behind and start helping. |
| Posted by: djk 2014-11-05 23:28 |
| #6 Republican elites can't get past their memory of the collegiality of Tip O'Neil and Pat Moynihan. Wishful thinking is hard to move on from. What the 'pubs need to do is push hard on corruption, all the ties between the DC crowd and the Wall Street plutocrats, the revolving door which spins for this regime. No, I don't expect them to do that either. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-11-05 18:53 |
| #5 Sounds about right. |
| Posted by: Omung Snore4606 2014-11-05 17:50 |
| #4 There you go using 'Republican' and 'Smart' in the same sentence again... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-11-05 15:44 |
| #3 Gracias. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-05 15:04 |
| #2 If the Republicans are smart they will introduce popular laws that Obama will be forced to veto (saying they were imperfect or something but making it easy to say Democrats oppose this and that when the next election rolls around). if he doesn't veto then we have some good laws which is what the Congress is supposed to do. Oh, and say all you want about hands across the aisle and cooperating to help some Dems join up if they want but really, who care what they think. They had the country by the balls for six years and screwed up over and over. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-11-05 14:51 |
| #1 Ooops, opinion Moved. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-05 13:51 |