Why do you believe Republicans can “shut Obama down” if they control the House and Senate?
The House controls the purse strings, but we still run $1 Trillion deficits. His appointments get through the Senate with little effort, as do his treaties (New START 2011), but Obama has evaded Senate ‘advice and consent’ authority without consequence for three and a half years through the use of czars, unofficial appointments, administrative regulations and Executive Orders. Friday, April 13, he created a new agency vis-s-vis Executive Order to regulate the US Domestic Natural Gas industry - not a peep from Congress. The EPA creates a bureaucratic ‘cap and trade’ since Congress won’t, and 535 church mice respond with submission. We have 40? phantom departments now run by czars and no one says a word.
I don’t believe Obama is acting as an American President. I believe his is preparing the way as an insurgent revolutionary. 2016 elections will not occur unless we stop him here and now, IMHO.
We can’t shut down Obama with control of only the House. There’s little reason to try. The House vote to repeal/defund Obamacare was nothing more than symbolic. Nothing we pass gets through the Senate. If we control both houses of Congress by a large majority, we can “run the table” on Obama and his thugs. We can even put some of them in jail where they belong.
The reason Holder refuses to answer for Fast & Furious, does nothing about the NBPP’s 10k bounty on GZ and turns a blind eye to ACORN/SEIU voter fraud is because we can’t impeach AND convict him without control of the Senate.