We are entering a very dangerous time.
With an uncooperative Republican Congress, 0bama will call them “rogue.” He used that term against the House shut-down of government. Sadly, very sadly few reacted appropriately to his vindictive, tyrant orders to close things like war memorials, national parkways, sent troops to shut-down vendors, and prevented people from stopping at overlooks, or the Blue Angels from performing that Sept.
I said last week I honestly worry about taking the Senate. Listening, if one can stand to listen to him, at the few campaign stops has him throwing his own party under the bus. But, that is really not what he is doing, the appearances are deceiving. He is already projecting his radical agenda to the base. If the democrats can’t hold their elected seats (and he hopes they won’t), then he thinks he can rule the country by executive fiat.
We, as a country, won’t have the courage to stop the man. Any attempt will be categorized as racist, any opposition will taint the 2016 elections for whoever the Republican candidate is. The “rogue Republicans” won’t act to stop him for fear of the media ginning up hostilities.
He has pulled off his agenda nearly flawlessly and now those who would stop him are backed into the corner. Ideally they’d bring impeachment charges against him...lord knows there’s more than enough there to actually prove treason...but no one will act. Instead we’ll see the Republican party “submit” more than we have ever before, all in an effort to get to elections 2016.
It was not a House shutdown of the government.
The House sent clean bill after clean bill to the Senate
where Reid in collusion with Obama refused to allow them to come to the floor.
It was Senate/Reid/Obama shutdown of the government.
Obama and his minions have repeatedly attacked the House as illegitimate, even though, in the system he wishes to overthrow, the House is supposed to reflect, and in fact does most closely reflect, the will of the people. A GOP Senate, if it happens, will not improve this behavior, it will worsen it. In order to understand this, you have to understand the differences between the American and French revolutions, and you especially have to understand the general will.
Obama believe that he and his comrades embody the general will. As such, elections, with their imperfections, serve only to further the general will (when they win), never to retard it (when they lose).
This argument was further developed by Lenin in 1902 in his What Is to Be Done?, and was plagiarized and popularized by Thomas Frank in 2004 in What's the Matter With Kansas?.
The essence of Marxism-Leninism, which is simply a development of the ideology of the French Revolution, is that simple arithmetical counting of votes cannot confer legitimacy on a government, because as part of class struggle, the workers are beset by false consciousness such that they do not and cannot vote in their own interests. A revolutionary vanguard is required, and has more legitimacy than structures created by elections, because the vanguard knows and works for the interests of the workers, when the workers themselves do not.
Because Obama, Jarrett, and many others that he surrounds himself with are Marxist-Leninists, they won't take a GOP Senate capture as evidence that their ideas are not working - oh, no, they will take it as evidence that the Crisis of Capitalism is culminating and they the revolutionary moment (the time for the vanguard to sweep away the rotten old system) has arrived.
You are correct that the time after a Republican election win is very dangerous. Just how dangerous, we'll have to wait and see.
Rouge when refusing to grant amnesty to 34 million illegals will be a good thing.