So the GOP has the house and senate. Now what?

[Carlybee]

as long as we get more war and spending, things will be just fine, just fine...

War harder

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I predict mostly the same old saw. I pray I am wrong.

Campaigning inspires the tongue to promise freely. Election inspires regret.

+rep

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

How the script changes for KABUKI THEATER WASHINGTON...

They all want their masters' AMNESTY passed through... Obama will give Amnesty plus whatever else they order on increased quotas for; H-1B, H-2C, Nursing, and any other demands from their campaign donors/bribery partnership planned.

Oh, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell will "Hoop and Holla" about Obama(Lame Duck) executive this or that. There will be calls for his head, impeachment, etc... then it will turn out just like those Unconstitutional Torturing War Criminals; W Bush, Dick Cheney, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, etc... The Show will go on, people poorer, more inflation, less rights and liberties, more spying, more laws, more Fascism.

Same Old Shit... these clowns will be "High Fiven" one another behind closed doors... any political casualties or lame ducks that have bleed the system and max'ed out their government riches, will retire with full retirement, then onto future wealth/spoils in the private sector for serving their masters so well. Dem=Rep=People Lose

 

[torchbearer]

Tunnel vision.

Dismantle the Fed.

I figure one leads to the other.
Find out what they did- then make the case for dismantling.

 

[parocks]

Lip service is one thing but would be real intersting to see how new GOP policy agenda on suspected insider jobs like ISIS would be different from that of Obama's ... considering this poll of very GOP voters who made history yesterday:

Poll: 46% of GOP thinks Obama's Muslim
www.politico.com › Josh Gerstein
But one number that could catch significant attention is this: in the Time poll, 46 percent of Republicans said they believe Obama is a Muslim.

What do you think the percentage of Muslims in the US who think that Obama is a Muslim?

Do you think it would be more than 46 percent or less than 46 percent?

Since Obama was a Muslim, when he was a child, and Muslims believe that if you're born a Muslim, you're a Muslim, I would think that number would be close to 100%.

 

[NIU Students for Liberty]

I think they should send a bill through to repeal Obamacare every day and let Obama veto it every day. Once these 2015 rates come in, we'll see how happy the libs who have to pay feel about it.

Premiums already went up. Last year. Obamacare is not going anywhere.

 

[Brett85]

The only very good thing about the Republicans gaining the majority in the Senate is that it will make it easier for Rand to get his judicial nominees confirmed if he gets elected President.

 

[T.hill]

Hopefully NOTHING. All around gridlock works out really well for me.

Repealing a law or two wouldn't hurt either.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Repealing a law or two wouldn't hurt either.

When was the last time THAT happened?


Law factories create laws, not repeal them.

 

[cajuncocoa]

For all the ranting the GOP does about abortion during every election cycle, I'm always perplexed as to why abortion remained legal all the while they held the majority in the House, Senate and Executive Branch from 2003-2007.

I guess they were too busy sending 18-year olds off to die and murder for a lie.

The GOP talks the talk, but fails to walk the walk time after time. I'll be impressed when they actually overturn something they keep bitching about.

 

[Lucille]

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-...-party-controls-senate-answer-these-questions

Please don't claim anything changes if one party or the other is in the majority. Anyone clinging to that fantasy is delusional.

If you really think it matters which political party controls the U.S. Senate, please answer these questions. Don't worry, they're not that difficult:

1. Will U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast change from being an incoherent pastiche of endless war and Imperial meddling? Please answer with a straight face. We all know the answer is that it doesn't matter who controls the Senate, Presidency or House of Representatives, nothing will change.

2. Will basic civil liberties be returned to the citizenry? You know, like the cops are no longer allowed to steal your cash when they stop you for a broken tail light and claim the cash was going to be used for a drug deal.

Or some limits on domestic spying by Central State agencies. You know, basic civil liberties as defined by the Bill of Rights and the U.S. constitution.

Don't make me laugh--you know darned well that it doesn't matter who controls the Senate, Presidency or House of Representatives, nothing will change.

3. Will the predatory, parasitic policies of the Federal Reserve that virtually everyone from the Wall Street Journal to what little remains of the authentic Left understands has greatly increased income and wealth inequality be reined in? Please don't claim either party has any will or interest in limiting the Fed's rapacious financialization. There is absolutely no evidence to support such a claim--it is pure wishful thinking.

4. Will the steaming pile of profiteering, corruption, waste, fraud and ineptitude that is Sickcare in the U.S. be truly reformed so its costs drop by 50% to match what every other developed democracy spends per person on universal healthcare? It doesn't matter if ObamaCare is repealed or not; that monstrosity was simply another layer of bureaucratic waste on an already hopelessly dysfunctional system.

If you answer "yes," please run a body scan on yourself to detect the biochips that were implanted while you voted Demopublican.

5. Will the influence of Big Money be well and truly banned from politics? If you answer yes, please pick up your tin-foil hat at the door.

6. Will the incentives in the Status Quo be reset to punish rapacious financialization and gaming the system and reward productive investment and labor? Before you answer, check out who's buttering the Senators' bread. Hint: Wall Street does not qualify as productive unless we're talking about the production of life-draining parasites. Virtually none of the vast armies of skimmers and scammers, from those pursuing bogus disability claims to lobbyist leeches, will suffer any consequence.

Moral hazard is the Status Quo's Prime Directive.

7. Will anything be done to dismantle the Neofeudal Debt-Serfdom known as student loans? You are delusional if you think either party has any interest in limiting the predation of an academic Upper Caste that came to do good and stayed to do well.

8. Will any prudent assessment be made of unaffordable weapons systems like the F-35 Lightning--$1.5 trillion and counting for aircraft that will soon be matched by drones that cost a fraction of the F-35's $200 million a piece price tag? No way--parts of those insanely costly jets are made in dozens of states, so the pork is well-distributed. Never mind the plane is lemon, built to fight the wars of the past. It's jobs, Baby--that's all that counts. Never mind the $1.5 trillion--we can always borrow another couple trillion--the Fed promised us.

Do you really think the Senate controlled by either party will ask why the F-35's price tag dropped to $120 million from $200 million? That's easy--the revised estimate left out the engine and avionics. They'll be added back in after the Senate approves open-ended funding.

If none of these key dynamics will change, you got nothing. Please don't claim anything changes if one party or the other is in the majority. Anyone clinging to that fantasy is delusional.

If you doubt this, please take the above quiz again.

Republicans will do their worst with their new majority: TPP, CISPA, incomprehensible immigration reform, and boots on the ground (to name a few) while doing nothing to stop any of the above.

 

[osan]

I'm hearing Mitch & others say they'll finally be able to pass a budget. Maybe Rand's 5 years to a balanced budget plan can be implemented.

Not sure I can get excited about this. The debt is so high that we will never pay it off, so a balanced budget seems to me like wishful thinking and window dressing.

But please illuminate me if I am wrong.

 

[pcosmar]

I'm hearing Mitch & others say they'll finally be able to pass a budget.

That is not a very funny joke.

 

[pcosmar]

The only very good thing about the Republicans gaining the majority in the Senate is that it will make it easier for Rand to get his judicial nominees confirmed if he gets elected President.

or Jeb Bush.

 

[CPUd]

 

[THX 1138]

So the GOP has the house and senate. Now what?

Even if every single office throughout the entire country was filled by a Republican...well, that might be a good start, but ultimately even THAT wouldn't be enough.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Call for Obama to be arrested and indicted!

Then what? Have an Republican whose can be a lot worse as Obama?

 

[jclay2]

Even if every single office throughout the entire country was filled by a Republican...well, that might be a good start, but ultimately even THAT wouldn't be enough.

It wouldn't do a thing! They still wouldn't balance the budget and ultimately, they would divide into two groups of conservative and moderate bringing back the two party system.

 

[TheTexan]

So the GOP has the house and senate. Now what?

Now, with most of the voting done for now, I can pursue my other passions such as my campaign to get Honey Boo Boo back on the air.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]

"So the GOP has the house and senate. Now what?"

Now the sheeple can go back to sleep...