Posted on 07/07/2016 9:37:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is only one thing certain about the outcome of the 2016 election – it will produce more gridlock. On January 20, 2017 Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will assume the office and the nation will have either a divided government or one-party rule – neither of which are likely to create a bipartisan surge. One outcome will look quite familiar: a divided government led by a Democrat in the White House. Another possibility: One-party rule by a Republican Party in the midst of serious fractures under the leadership of a very nominal Republican. The least likely scenario also involves one-party rule, but instead by the Democrats.
In the first scenario, Clinton would likely be able to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. But it's also possible that Republican Senate leaders, arguing that Merrick Garland will be less liberal than a Clinton pick, will allow a vote on President Barack Obama's nominee to the seat in a lame duck session. It's also possible that Garland could get a vote even earlier if Senate Republicans are feeling desperate after Labor Day and believe a vote on Garland would improve their odds to hold the Senate. Still, Republicans in the minority could also filibuster a Clinton Supreme Court selection for an indefinite amount of time.
A President Clinton might be more adept at cultivating personal relationships with congressional leaders than President Obama was, which some observers believe hurt Obama's presidency. But the larger problem – that of two diametrically-opposed partisan camps each holding power in Washington – would remain, and it's doubtful that a GOP House majority would go along with any big-ticket Clinton proposals....
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The government will not run long under Hillary.
There most definitely will be a revolt.
Hopefully, our military will stick to their pledge to defend the constitution. Believe it or not, you will find that most members of the military have a far, far, FAR greater understanding of it than our so-called legal profession. (You listening, supreme clowns?)
All in favor of amnesty, open borders, gun control, big big government, and the liberal elite of both parties. That way they get their perks. So short sighted that it makes you want to puke.
My guess it will be running amok under Clinton,or walking amok under Trump
Accuracy in vocabulary.
I’ve never become dismayed at gridlock. With the absolute trash laws this admin has enacted, there is nothing improved nor served by having Congress “get things done”. It’s like “reaching across the aisle” and “bipartisanship”. What Congress wants to get done is to crush our freedoms and future potentials. I am much happier with Congress not getting anything done. Their investigations also yield nothing. As long as the exec branch can sidestep laws and create the laws they want out of thin air, there is essentially no purpose for a “lawmaking” body except to grant shallow legitimacy to creeping tyranny and Fabian socialist moves that are both entirely negative, and this has been proven 100 times.
I’m watching the washington dc 2 step right now. What a load of CRAP! There really is 2 levels of justice, 1 for those who are wealthy,well connected, & powerful and then for the rest of us, with the boot heel coming down on our throat/s before we get to see a court room to enter our plea/s. Just more theater for us peasants, so we do NOT rise up against our masters!
From where I sit, I would say that under Trump, considering his background America will be so much better off...jobs; health care; military; economy; taxes; safety of American citizens....
Under Clinton, we would be thrown back into the 90’s again, scandals, creating a scandal to hid the previous scandal, selling more, if there is more, of Our Country to foreign governments, cheating, lying, stealing....do we really WANT to go back there AGAIN? Haven’t we all had enough of Clintons? Haven’t we all had enough of the Bushes? Haven’t we all had enough of Barky and the Muslim Brotherhood?
GO.TRUMP.GO!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
Congress has made itself irrelevant to governing by their own accord. Obama has shown us the future and it truly is an imperial presidency. Whether the Republican wing on the uniparty embraces this fact is the $64 trillion dollar in debt question.
1) Republicans will occasionally bluster about stopping various Clinton policies, but any opposition will be token. The usual gang of idiots will GO ALONG with Hillary and she, like Obama, will get everything she wants.
2) Democrats will squeal loudly about nearly everything Trump tries to do. A significant number of spineless Republicans will agree with them, and he will not be able to achieve much in the way of meaningful conservative reform.
We’re screwed...
On January 20, 2017 Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will assume the office and the nation will have either a divided government or one-party rule – neither of which are likely to create a bipartisan surge. One outcome will look quite familiar: a divided government led by a Democrat in the White House. Another possibility: One-party rule by a Republican Party in the midst of serious fractures under the leadership of a very nominal Republican. The least likely scenario also involves one-party rule, but instead by the Democrats.Trump will win; the Pubbies will hold the Senate, but won't pick up the House until the 2018 midterm elections. As usually happens, the new President will get a honeymoon period, but the first year of a POTUS' term is spent adminstering the last year of the previous Congress', and the second year is an election year, so, watch for a nonstop agenda-driven Trump administration, with a lot of phone-and-a-pen removing what he can of the Kenyan's legacy.
Executive Orders action, and thumb his nose at Congress, just like Obama did. But before doing so he will go to the American public and get their blessing, unlike Obama didn’t do.
For me, the most important issue is;
Clinton=Islam
Trump=No Islam
Supreme court justice appointments are a big one too.
IOW, Trump will be a despot.
Is that what you believe?
I thought I made that perfectly clear.
Are you a #NeverTrumper by any chance? You sure sound like one.
The party in the White House almost always loses seats in Congress in the first midterm election. So, most likely no picking up the House in 2018 if it's lost this year.
No honeymoon for Trump from the Democrats either. They hate the guy and don't want to give any Republican president a break.
Maybe Trump's administration will be "non-stop agenda-driven," maybe not. You may also find that he's not as keen on removing Obama's legacy (whatever that is) than you think.
Democrats do hate Trump, but Trump may not actually hate them that much.
I’m a constitutionalist, and a Lockean one at that.
Article I is gone. Congress is the president’s rubber-stamp. The president’s agencies write the regulations we live under, with scotus filling in the social justice gaps as necessary.
From the rhetoric of this campaign season, one would suspect the office of the American President has more in common with that in an authoritarian banana republic than the office held by George Washington.
Whoever is elected this November, he/she will have the despotic powers accumulated by Obama.
There have been numerous Presidential elections that were far worse than this. History even tells us so.
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