Posted on 11/04/2014 9:57:59 PM PST by lbryce
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Woo Hoo!!!
Harry, Hope to see you in stripes.
Here & commenting! Historical night, praise God!
The greatest bonus of the night!
--Thomas Paine
Can we run him out of town on a rail?
Tar’n’feather? Or is that racisssssss?
What are they going to do that’s any different?
Wonderful news!! Hoping there will be good changes coming from these historical election wins.
That creepoid is not worth the exalted title of the thread.
Just a toilet flush down the drain.
Tar and Feathers would be good enough for his new suit as he rides a rail out of town, I think.
Was he “present”? < /s >
Where are all the nattering nabobs of negativity that swarmed the political threads for the last months on end, with their “never voting for Pubs” mantra. Now don’t any of you come back to join in the victory dance, one you did nothing to add to, and a lot to subtract from.
Huge night for Republicans both as far as the US Senate is concerned and all the Republican Govenor pickups. This election was fueled by the anger of voters all across this country. Obamas policies have been REJECTED!
1. Staffing the executive branch. For much of the Obama presidency, Republicans in the Senate stymied up literally hundreds of presidential appointments to cabinet slots big and small, as well as nominations to the federal bench. Harry Reid implemented filibuster reform one year ago, and nominations have been handled more quickly—but with Republicans in charge, expect them to grind to a halt. Republicans blocked nominees reflexively under the old filibuster rules, many times without offering a single actual objection, and that’s very likely to resume now.Republicans well understand that failing to staff the executive branch—and particularly the judicial branch—is a great way to slow down Obama’s priorities now, and even affect the trajectory of American jurisprudence long he leaves office. There are still fifty-nine vacancies on federal district and appellate courts, a seven percent vacancy rate, and 35 percent of those empty seats are in areas that have been declared judicial emergency. This problem will get much worse, not better, over the next two years.
2. Filling a Supreme Court vacancy. The old filibuster rules still required sixty votes to confirm a Supreme Court nominee, which was going to be a tough lift anyway. But Obama managed it twice already. With Republicans in charge, it may be impossible.
First the nominee would have to clear the GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be chaired by conservative stalwart Chuck Grassley. Then a Republican Senate has to approve the nominee. In the event Obama sends any kind of discernibly liberal judge to the Senate, it’s easy to imagine the GOP outright blocking him or her. Alternately, Obama could try to avoid that situation by making an opaque nomination with no discernible views on key issues like abortion and money in politics. This might be the more terrifying of the two possibilities.
3. Deregulating carbon emissions. If the GOP’s biggest goal is repealing Obamacare, a close second is blocking the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed limits on carbon emissions. As Senator Sheldon Whitehouse pointed out on All In with Chris Hayes last night, the GOP House has actually passed more bills targeting the EPA than those repealing Obamacare. And unlike with the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have the full and enthusiastic backing of their corporate allies in blocking EPA carbon limits.
When noted climate denier Jim Inhofe takes the gavel of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee from Barbara Boxer in January, there are many ways he could pass legislation stopping the regulation. He could attach riders to any number of bills that deny funding for those regulations. Or he could simply decline to fund the entire EPA, and tell the White House no money would be forthcoming until the regulations are cancelled.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/188057/republicans-just-took-over-senate-heres-why-sucks#
Wrong name. It should read "Barry Soetoro, AKA Barack Hussein Obama"
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