1. Get rid of McConnell.
2. Reinstate filibusters of Obama appointments so that any 40 Senators can block them.
3. Eliminate filibusters of legislation or require Democrats to use Mr. Smith Goes to Washington style talk till you drop filibusters. Playback is a bitch.
4. Immediately start passing conservative legislation through the House and Senate and make Obama spend the last two years of his term vetoing everything.
This would start earning the Republicans some respect back.
Immediately start passing conservative legislation through the House and Senate and make Obama spend the last two years of his term vetoing everything.
That’s not enough. McConnell is planning a beltway GOP kabuki dance. First fund the govt through nearly all of 2015 neutering the power of Congress. Then he intends to pass some “conservative” bills that the Kenyan will veto. It will be a charade. No substantive engagement against the obama agenda at all because they will have already preemptively surrendered by funding it.
Come 2016 campaign season the GOP will say to the goobers on the GOP plantation: “See we tried. Really, we tried. But we need the White House to get anything done.”