[Repeal The 17th]

There are a lot of defeatist posts to this thread.

If the republicans take control of the senate (highly likely),
it would still not be enough to push back the federal behemoth.
But, it would be enough to stop the beast’s advance.

Even (wishful thinking) with 60 votes in the Senate,
no, it would not be enough votes for impeachment, and
no, it would not be enough votes to override a presidential veto.

Budget bills would likely result in another government shutdown,
and it would sit squarely on the head of the executive branch.

Unqualified judges appointed?
fahgettaboudit

[Luke21]

Item number one would be to give Harry back the fillibuster.

[AFreeBird]

Give up? Surrender? Continue the ‘fundamental transformation of America’ that Barry started, but maybe ease up on the gas a teeny tinny bit?

[MUDDOG]

What they SHOULDN’T do is roll back the nuclear option. At least not until they’ve rubbed the Democrats’ faces in it.

[Candor7]

Unless the GOP fully embraces the TP, they have NO hope of taking the Senate....NONE!

[molson209]

power sharing just like the last time they controlled it

[Secret Agent Man]

they can control and work in sync with the house.

obama will veto everything.

if both have veto-proof majorities they can override the vetoes.

they can begin impeachment and vote on removal after impeachment and succeed if they had the balls.

[WePledge]

Unfortunately we've already seen what the GOP does when in control of all 3 branches of govt. during the Bush years. They spent like drunken democrats and kowtowed to business interests like kept women. I hold little hope for substantial change if they do regain the Senate.

[StormEye]

The Republicans would feel terribly guilty so they would share power with Obama, Reid and their Democrat Party colleagues. It would be the ultimate "reach across the aisle" moment in Republican Party history. The media would praise them (after a relentless period of public bashing & psychological warfare.) The Republicans would feel proud and believe that the Democrats and their Media Establishment finally would love them.

What a beautiful time it will be. Peace, love and harmony! Just watch those Republicans sit up on the hind legs for the Democrats and beg for a bone.

[Nifster]

The same thing they did last time.... nothing but bow and scrape ....just ask Mitch

[faithhopecharity]

hopefully, convict on an impeachment resolution
(but the House will need a Speaker with some cajones, first)

[Teacher317]

post turtles

[Timber Rattler]

Nothing.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

What would the RINOpublicans do??

Easy:

1. NOT repeal Obamacare, but spend a decade trying to fix it.
2. Approve Obama’s Supreme Court picks.
3. Milk the lobbyists for as much cash as they can, while lining up future jobs and sweetheart investments.
4. Approve any liberal former Senator for any position Obama nominates him for.
5. NOT vote to impeach Obama.
6. Do everything demoncrats would do, but slower...

[GeronL]

They will continue much the same. They will make rules to share power with the Democrats

[Logical me]

Absolutely nothing will be accomplished as usual.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

... “If the Republicans win the Senate,” says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, “the conclusion they’re going to draw is ‘obstruction works [emphasis added],’ ...

I recently ranted in a recent thread concerning Sarah Palin and the Senate that Palin is overlooking the following concerning winning the Senate in 2014. If patriots and former Obama supporters can get their acts together for the 2014 elections and win 2/3 conservative majority control of both Houses of Congress, then Congress will be positioned to do the following.

In stark contrast to the tunnel-vision comment by Norman Ornstein concerning obstructionism, and the likewise uninspiring comments by Thomas Mann and Neera Tanden, if patriots were to aim their sights high enough, a conservative-controlled Congress coming out of the 2014 elections might just have the power, under the Constitution's Clause 2 of Section 7 of Article I, to override presidential vetoes. In other words, Congress would be able to repeal constitutionally indefensible Obamacare Democratcare, for example, without Obama's signature. That's a far cry from obstructionism.

But since conservative leaders like Palin, Orstein, Mann and Tanden are evidently not as familiar with the Constitution as they should be, the blind are once again leading the blind and conservatives are going to lose two more years in their misguided effort to win the Constitution back.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

They’ll try to pass amnesty to pander to hispanics and alienate non-Hispanics in midwestern swing states.

They might block some of his appointments.

Obama won’t cave or try to sign a good bill. He will leave office the same way he entered, as a victim of racist whites.

[mrsmith]

Elect Susan Collins Majority Leader “to put a woman’s face on the Party”.
Then pressure the House to go along with the destructive policies she believes in.

So support conservatives for the House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Iron Munro]

They would do the same as they did when the had the majority in the Bush administration.

Connect the dots.

Pigs, Pig Trough.