Posted on 11/04/2014 11:52:56 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Republicans stormed to victory in US midterm elections, thumping rival Democrats to clinch control of both houses of Congress and assuring a fractious final two years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Riding a wave of voter frustration with Washington incumbents and the unpopular policies of the Obama administration, Republicans seized at least seven seats from Senate Democrats to claim total congressional control for the first time since 2006.
"The American people have put their trust in the Republican Party," Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus said shortly after the Democratic implosion.
Mitch McConnell, the Senate's top Republican, brushed aside the toughest challenge to his Kentucky seat in 30 years and was slated to replace Harry Reid as Senate majority leader.
"This experiment in big government has lasted long enough. It's time to go in a new direction," McConnell boomed to supporters in his victory speech.
But he sounded a conciliatory note as well, adding that while he and the president rarely see eye to eye, "we do have an obligation to work together on issues where we can agree."
Reid, stung by losing his powerful leadership role, congratulated McConnell but also called for cooperation.
"The message from voters is clear: they want us to work together," Reid said.
Republicans have held the 435-seat House of Representatives since 2010, and they kept it safely in hand Tuesday.
In a bipartisan achievement, for the first time ever more than 100 women were projected to win House seats.
But compounding Democratic woes, projections showed the GOP could actually gain an impressive 14 to 18 House seats, giving Republicans their largest majority since 1946.
Republicans also cleaned up in key governors' races, earning re-election in Florida, Wisconsin and Kansas and stunning Democrats by winning governorships in blue Maryland and Massachusetts.
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Reverse all those Executive Orders put in place by Obama, and block any others from him over the next two years. You can bet Obama will be busy issuing them in the next two months, because the petulant child still wants to destroy this country. Will the GOP stand firm and not capitulate with their new strength? Hope they don’t snatch defeat from victory by being wusses.
They've been showing hubris for a while. Time to put Reid on my dead-list for 2015.
Pelosi has another 20 years, sheesh that woman is all plastic.
I heard house gains were +13 and still counting.
Pat Caddell is speaking like a Tea Partier tonight.
What are you talking about? He’ll be signing disastrous executive orders, starting with amnesty, left and right.
The Titanic hit another iceberg...
LOL! No Harry, they -we! - want you OUT!
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This is what concerns me. For all these years the excuse has been we can't do anything because the Democrats control the Senate. Now that the Republicans control both houses of congress, will they now have the cajones to flex their muscles and wrench this country from the tyrant in the White House, or will they continue to lie down and let Obama and his accomplices walk all over them?
That's DEEP BLUE Maryland and Massachusetts!
I just love reading this:
“stunning Democrats by winning governorships in blue Maryland and Massachusetts.”
GMTA.
:)
Democrat clones.
They’re as liberal as you can get. I’d never have voted for them.
Obama becomes the lamest of lame ducks as of today.
More time for golf.
And executive orders.
That’s the danger, of course. But I think he may turn out to be a paper tiger and just phone in the next two years. We’ll see soon enough, on the amnesty front.
“The message from voters is clear: they want us to work together,” Reid said.
Horse.
Sh*t.
Two full years of it.
He’s as useless as teats on a boar hog.
Let us hope that Republicans will be smart enough to realize that they did not win the elections by offering people something to vote for, but won because people voted against something. They will have big shoes to fill and all we can do is hope that they dont squander this once in a blue moon chance to put this country back on the right track. From knowing how the Republicans operated in the past it may not pay to be too overly optimistic.
On the other hand it would come as a pleasant surprise if they come to their senses and avoid making the same mistakes what caused them to fall out of favor with the public in the first place. Fate has given this great country another chance, almost like a Gift Horse by handing us a pitiful misguided and poor excuse for a leader in order to show and teach us a lesson where this country shouldnt be going. Only time will tell if we have become any wiser and learned our lesson. If we happen to fail, this time there may not be another wakeup call.
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