Posted on 12/07/2014 6:25:43 PM PST by Olog-hai
When Louisiana Democrat Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election runoff on Saturday it put Barack Obama in the record books as the two-term president with the most midterm losses for his party.
The record previously was held by Harry Truman.
Truman’s Democratic Party lost 74 seats in 1946 and 1950, while under Obama the Democrats have lost a total of 75 seats in 2010 and 2014. He could lose one more if Republican Martha McSally beats Democratic Rep. Ron Barber in Arizona in an election recount, Breitbart News reports. McSally is currently ahead by only 200 votes. …
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Ignoring the political reality of Presidential veto power they will whine and complain about the GOP no matter what it does!
A liberal party winning is not, by definition, a good thing. The GOP establishment has a history of cooperation with the hard left, even more openly so under Obama. It is not a case of “no matter what it does” but the history of what it does.
And vetoes can be overridden with the Democrats’ help—if the GOP were indeed concerned about the country and worked on the blue-dog tendencies that some of the Dems would possess still. Remember, it is the establishment GOP types themselves claiming that they cannot act because of a presidential veto.
Yep. Lots of talk about shutting him down and zero plan to actually do it.
Sometimes we have to be patient.
The recent elections have removed most Democrats who would compromise with the GOP.
I am not saying it is impossible, but we can't overreact if we can't get everything we want right now.
For now, it is important just to have stopped Obama and to have taken back the initiative.
The WH has power, and we need to recognize that power and the limits to Congress.
We are dealing with a Leftwing ideologue who was willing to destroy his own Party to get what he wanted.
We need to deal with him with wisdom and patience, knowing we hold all the cards, we just need to play them correctly.
What Democrats would compromise with “the GOP” (their favorite Emmanuel Goldstein) much less conservatives? All I’ve seen over the past few decades is the compromise going the other way, as in liberal party compromising with radical-left party.
Have we stopped Obama? Why are so many establishment GOP types talking just like Obama?
The GOP Congress hasn't even been seated yet!
Have we? How?
We’ll see what the GOP establishment does. Right now, I’m watching them backpedal on their Obamacare promises and talking up amnesty.
Issuing an executive order for 5 million illegals not to be deported isn't 'amnesty'.
It is an temporary reprive, which can be undone with a GOP President.
So the pen and the phone suddenly stopped working?
Issuing an executive order for any number of illegals to not be deported is de facto amnesty.
The Congress has already surrendered the power of the purse to the executive branch and violated the Constitution itself. Pre-2008 thinking will not serve here.
You do know that executive orders can be undone by the next President?
No, Congress hasn’t surrenderd the power of the purse to the executive branch.
. . . and the sun rises in the west.
Guys like you would have griped under the Washington adminstration.
You don’t understand the George Washington administration, I think. Washington would not have put up with such blackguards as Boehner, McConnell, ad nauseam, who are of the type to have sold us back out to George III, and who are also very far removed from the spirit of “No king but King Jesus”.
You can't make everyone happy.
Who said anything about making everyone happy? The point is to not make your political opposition happy, but your electorate.
Sometimes it takes compromise, you don't get all you want in the first bite.
Where did Democrats compromise on Obamacare?
Conservatives have continuously lost ground. That’s reality. That’s because the GOP is a liberal party who pander to conservatives and stab them in the back once in office.
There are ways that Bills can be passed without doing that.
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