Posted on 09/16/2014 7:16:37 PM PDT by SMGFan
For most of the year, it seemed almost certain that Republicans would win the six additional U.S. Senate seats they need to oust the Democrats from their majority and take control of Congress..
But the outlook has turned murkier in recent weeks. While a GOP majority is still the most likely outcome, it's no longer as sure a bet. Endangered Democratic incumbents in North Carolina and Alaska are waging surprisingly strong campaigns, and a Republican incumbent in Kansas is in unexpected trouble. "We don't have a lock on this thing at all," one GOP strategist told me recently.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If the Republicans win they will immediately institute a power sharing agreement with the democrats and reach across the aisle to compromise so they can win praise from the media and “get things done in Washington”. Expect more spending on everything except defense.Amnesty,more HB 1 visas,more campaign finance reform aka speech restrictions,and crony capitalism will be the gifts that the GOP leadership will help bestow.They will also agree Obama Care is settled law and Obama has the right to stack the courts with communists of his choosing..
Smaller government? Religious Liberty? Reagan’s vision?We’ll tell those people to sit down and shut up right Lindsey? Yeah the GOP taking over the Senate is going to do a lot for conservatives!
Sorry - “wrenches” are a fantasy. The only difference would be a wee bit slower jump off the cliff. No thanks.
how many people here think that we should still
be in Iraq and losing 5000 men dead and spending
1$trillion a year.
just curious
Pelosi craps her Depends????
Ah!
The genius of the “stay at home to avoid blame” strategy.
THAT is what built America!
Actually, the GOPe doesn’t mind the Tea Party if it expands their numbers in an election. What the GOPe loathes is the Tea Party’s desire to reign in spending. That’s what the GOPe fears. That’s why filth like pig face Rove and other worthless leeches incapable of holding real jobs dislike the Tea Party.
The GOPe wants to spend as much as the Rats ... They simply have different recipients in mind.
I remember being relieved when Scooter Libby was indicted and not Rove. Boy was I naive back then. What a difference a few years make. Had Rove been the victim of that witch hunt, some of our problems today might not exist.
From the article: “Obama ‘needs to be challenged, and the best way to do that is through the funding process,’ McConnell told Politico last month. ‘We’re going to pass spending bills, and they’re going to have a lot of restrictions on the activities of the bureaucracy.’”
Interesting comment, no? But all I read in here is carping.
Here are my forecasts:
#1: Senator McConnell and the rest of the GOP takes the lead from Senator Reid and dump the filibuster for all legislation. That solves the 60-vote problem and will enable the House and Senate to act as one and send the President some interesting budget bills.
#2: The Continuing Resolution will be no more. Instead, we’ll be back to individual spending bills, and not necessarily department-wide bills either.
#3: All of those rogue agencies that have ignored Congressional investigations will see their budgets severely curtailed with funds appropriated only for essential needs, and even, in some cases, no budget at all, with essential needs transferred to another department.
#4: With the power of the purse in hand, Congressional investigators will meet far less resistance when they call witnesses.
Regardless what most of you naysayers in here think, Senator McConnell is no dummy when it comes to the legislative process. I think some very interesting things are going to happen if the GOP takes over the Senate. Everyone here seems to think the GOP will meekly “go along to get along.” I doubt it very much, and think that Senator McConnell and Repr. Boehner have already come up with plenty of ways to even the score for the way they’ve been treated for the past six years. Payback is a bitch, and it’s coming.
But hey, the GOP leadership is a bunch of wimps and nothing is going to happen, right? If you all say so....
Can the GOP's pragmatists resist their party's swing to the right, strike alliances with centrist Democrats and actually pass important legislation next year?
I pray not.
To quote George Will:
When Americans want something from government, and want it intensely and protractedly, they usually get it. When they don't, they probably shouldn't. But nowadays government, a seismograph trembling to tiny tremors of appetites, is "responsive" to a fault.
Bicameralism is [...] conducive to gridlock. But there are 6 billion people on this planet and about 5.7 billion of them would be better off if they lived under governments more susceptible to gridlock. Gridlock is not an American problem, it is an American achievement.
The best economic times we've had in the last 30 years was when a Republican Congress was spending all its time and energy fighting Clinton, and Congress did next to nothing.
And when Congress does nothing, the people and the country prosper.
You must have read GeronL before. Your insight is amazing. He is not alone.
Anymore most of so called Republicans are just as bad as what they intent to replace.
A wrench? I don't think so. A speed bump, maybe.
The choice is between having a RINO Senate and House basically give Obama and the Democrats what they want, vs. having the RINOs lose to the Democrats (almost the same result) and be forced to recognize that they cannot win by alienating their conservative base, and thus becoming more conservative.
Personally, I favor the latter outcome as the only possible way to save what is left of our benighted country.
I know. Scott Walker is down by 2 points right now in Wisconsin.
“What happens if Republicans win the Senate?”
Mostly nothing. They’ll pass amnesty while calling it “Regularization” and otherwise further a lot of the same things that Obama wants.
Not a word in this article about a Republican majority in both houses governing being frustrated by Democrat president's veto. But that is only keeping with the reporting of the Los Angeles times during the first two years of the Obama administration when every failing of the administration which controlled both houses of Congress was laid at the feet of the Republicans who controlled nothing.
If only. I haven't heard a peep of such plans from the GOPE.
What happens if they don’t?
The GOP will continue to force RomneyCARE/ObamCARE
and Romney polygamy/gaymarriage and beastiality
down every throat of every American — while they
continue to arm al QAeda.
One of the first things they would do is to expel all conservatives from committee leadership roles.
The GOPe hates conservatives.
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