GOPe strategery: Lie low, don’t make waves, wait for 2016.
Or is that 2018? 2020?
Republicans win in 2016 if they put up a candidate that can excite the base. It doesn’t HAVE to be a perfect conservative. It has to be someone that provides a superior vision and gets everyone motivated to work, donate, campaign and vote. Short list: Walker, Cruz, Pence, Kasich (?).
Obama will go quietly into the night so as not to rock the boat for the hideous Hildabeast of Arkansas.
Bet the house on it!
We can get a glimpse of the GOP’s intentions here in VA. Do they let the Rats continue to profit from fraud and deceit? Or do they insist on integrity?
And remember, Alinsky wasn’t in it for the end game, himself. He just developed a shake down technique a la Frank Nitty. His technique just was not as blatantly illegal as Nitty’s. Think Jesse Jackson. There is no money to shake down if the “goals” are ever actually achieved.
Nice job. I particularly liked the quote “...so that they retain support of The Tea Party and Rino wings of the party.”
At some point both sides (and I mean both, not just one side) should realize that the other side might have a point and start working from there.
I don't think Obama would fight very hard to defend ObamaCare except for political reasons. Heck, he has already capitulated to almost every Republican objection on his own through questionable executive orders delaying various provisions of it.
He had Nineteen, on September 27, 2013, who joined him in refusing Harry Reid's cloture vote on the spending bill. This was the vote that McConnell & McCain said would 'lose the Senate in 2014' [wrong Mitch] and what prompted him and the gOpE to declare open war on the Tea Party movement and conservatism.
Sure, Senator Cruz will lose a few of these (Roberts, Portman, Paul(?)) nineteen to the Mitch Establishment. But he also gains another nine possible (Sullivan, Cotton, Gardner, Ernst, Daines, Sasse, Lankford, Rounds, Capito) to make a very formidible 25 or so coalition to challenge for the Majority Leader spot and setting the agenda to roll back what the Dem socialists have inflicted upon the Country.
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I assume you are referring to elected Democrats in your first point. If so, I disagree. I think the Rats have been totally highjacked by far left liberals. They are great company for Obama. The Blue Dogs are extinct. Manchin might be the only semi-moderate Rat left in D.C.
Regarding your second point, Obama goes govern against Rat fortunes, but he has plenty of allies or he wouldn't have gotten this far. There's only so much you can do unilaterally and now that the GOP has a clear mandate, they can cut him off at the knees by refusing funding for his hare brained schemes and I truly hope they do.
After 2010 and last night, I am more convinced than ever that Obama, the persona, was the reason why the Rats won in 2008 and 2012. It had nothing to do with their policies, even though they think it did. That concept heartens me and bodes well for 2016 when the slate will be wiped clean.
The Republicans won the seats but the Democrats will still control at a lower level so long as McConnell and Boehner and McCarthy are still in position.
The Republicans had to hang on through this election. Now, let the Benghazi Committee start turning over the stones.