[livius]

I think that if we get a GOP majority in the Senate in 2014 and preserve our House majority, the US won’t collapse. Otherwise, I’m not sure.

That is, I don’t think the GOP has any great ideas, but at least they wouldn’t be supporting the bizarre universalist, populist plans of the Great Divider.

However, that means they’ve got to get elected, and without a plan and a positive approach, they haven’t got a chance.

People want to know how they’re going to get jobs again, whether they should buy property, whether things are going up or on the downhill slide. We need to tell them how we’re going to revitalize the economy...not through wasted “stimulus” largesse to mega-companies who have been attached to the government teat for a long time now, but through regulatory simplification, lower taxes and similar things that promote companies large and small.

[henkster]

If the GOP wins the Senate in 2014 it merely slows the countdown to the day of reckoning. I only hope it delays it enough so that it doesn’t happen in my lifetime.

[Defiant]

If Republicans had the Senate, and McConnell was in charge, wouldn't they still surrender to Obama? All he has to do to get them to give him what he wants is to threaten to shut the government down. If we get the Senate, he can still do that.

It may be a good start, but unless we elect conservatives who put some backbone in the Congress, and who know how to say no, and get a conservative in the White House in 2016, then we are pretty much done. There's only so much the system can take, and at some point, there's no going back.

[ryan71]

“I think that if we get a GOP majority in the Senate in 2014 and preserve our House majority, the US won’t collapse.”

Laughing. That’s EXACTLY when the progressives will want it to collapse then blame Republicans.