I would rather the Republicans have a large Senate minority- say 47 or 48- and Snow and Collins and McCain(if he is still there) switched to be Social Democrats. Republicans do their best work when in minority. As a majority they don’t feel they have any principles to prove and they set about the serious business of grabbing as much goodies as they can. As for repealing Obamacare, it won’t happen, even with vetoproof majorities in both houses. The Republicans will never vote to cause government employees to lose their jobs and the Kenyan has been hiring hordes of new bureaucrats to staff the IRS’s new mandates and the Obamacare bureaucracy.
I disagree. When we get a majority, we can block the Elena Kagans and Sonia Sotomayors. And there are two more layers of lifetime judicial appointments below them. We can also block socialist legislation and the ratification of abysmally stupid treaties, like the Kyoto Protocol, that would cost millions of jobs and surrender our sovereignty one piece at a time. Even if a GOP majority does nothing for us, it's better than a Dem majority, which wouldn't hesitate to do whatever it can against us (as we've already seen).
As for repealing Obamacare, it won’t happen, even with vetoproof majorities in both houses. The Republicans will never vote to cause government employees to lose their jobs and the Kenyan has been hiring hordes of new bureaucrats to staff the IRS’s new mandates and the Obamacare bureaucracy.
Most people don't even know this, but buried in those 2000+ pages is authorization for 70 new government agencies and they'll all have their own enormous budgets. However, I think Republicans will respond to the will of the people, and repeal it. (I could be unpleasantly surprised ...)