At this point the most that a Republican controlled Senate can do is block Obama’s far left wing judicial appointments. That’s important since judges have lifetime appointments and Obama’s will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
A Republican Senate can also pass a lot of conservative bills that have already passed the house but that Harry Reid will not allow a vote on. Sure Obama will veto everything, but in 2016 the Republican Presidential candidate can run on ending Democrat obstruction. The Democrat platform will be “We stopped anything from getting done!”
In 2016 a conservative President with a Republican controlled Congress can undo almost everything that Obama has done.
Winning the war requires winning several battles along the way.
I expect Obama to be vetoing a lot of bills.
Let him. I mean for someone as widely detested as Bush, the Democrats main problem after November is to nominate someone who has nothing to do with Obama.
That means keeping him away from the Democratic National Convention.
GOP presidential candidates were forced to disown Bush. All of this puts to paid Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential run in 2016.
I love it.
Winning the war requires winning several battles along the way.
I wish and hope for what you say, but I also recall that Republicans had both houses of congress as well as the presidency when GW Bush was in office. What we got were illegal incandescent lightbulbs and a whole lot of cooperating with the Ted Kennedy agenda.
I have no reason to believe we'd get anything different the next time around.
Why should Obama move an inch when he can sit back while progressive Republicans and the MSM carpet bomb conservatives? We’ve seen this movie before. It has a bad ending.
With McConnell & Boehner running the GOP the next two years won’t be any different than the last 4.
I agree with you. Judges are very important as is the fact that there are a lot more Pubbies up for Senate re-election in 2016 than Dims (the reverse of this year). IMHO we need to get in what we can this year as 2016 could be challenging. That said, I’d love it if our House elected Gohmert or Gowdy as the Speaker and the Senate elected Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee or Ted Cruz as the Majority Leader (though I’d like to see Cruz as President in 2017, so maybe not him as Senate Leader).