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GOP-controlled Senate -- GOP ready to govern?
Topic Started: Oct 1 2014, 08:04 PM (127 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Article:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/09/good-news-democrats-youre-going-to-lose-111467.html

The article acknowledges that the GOP will very likely win control of the Senate in this year's mid-term election, then it proceeds to argue that the GOP would not be able to govern, and how that might turn out to be good news for the Democrats in 2016.

Agree or disagree? What do you wish to see the GOP accomplish by winning control of both the House and the Senate? Are you optimistic about the GOP actually accomplishing it if it indeed controls both the House and the Senate? :blink:
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Larry
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I think just getting rid of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, the two biggest mentally deficient morons in Congress, will be enough to ensure a better run congress than we have now.
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Axtremus
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Larry
Oct 1 2014, 09:11 PM
... better run congress ...
Kindly elaborate, if you will:

What do you mean by "better run"?
Better run to do what, exactly?
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Mikhailoh
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It is difficult to say, but the premise of the article has a point. There is a rift in the GOP between the more centrist and the Tea Party factions. If they don't get together it could be a bloodbath in 2016.
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jon-nyc
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Right, inter-party gridlock has mostly masked intra-party gridlock. (With some notable exceptions). The GOP winning the Senate will make intra-party disfunction more visible, and will also more closely associate congressional unpopularity with the GOP. Both of those could help the Democrats in 2016, at the very least there would be something for the Democrats to run against, like the GOP will have the obama record to run against.
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Copper
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Following the trend of the last couple years I don't see how the democrat party could have any members left by 2016.
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Copper
Oct 2 2014, 05:13 AM
Following the trend of the last couple years I don't see how the democrat party could have any members left by 2016.
Shhhhhh... don't jinx it.

The Repub's are notorious for shooting themselves in the foot at the last minute.
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