But how do Republicans in congress shut down the government when they’re the minority in both the House and the Senate? We don’t have enough votes in congress to block all the outrageous stuff that this administration is doing. This is the result of so many dumbed-down voters being fooled by the mainstream media in 2006 and 2008 and voting for democrats. People just did not listen to the facts about Obama either in 2008 and got caught up in the media hysteria about his candidacy, and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and resulting financial turmoil. When I heard that Obama was the most liberal senator in the US Senate, that one fact immediately ruled out any possibility that I would vote for him. Anyone who’s to the left of John Kerry is automatically unqualified to be President.
The GOP has a problem, which is that it’s very tough to fight this administration effectively from a minority position in congress. First we have to win a lot more seats in the House and Senate in November.
I don't know for a fact, but I believe that in both houses, particularly the Senate, the minority party can be extremely obstructive using all the the parliamentary procedures available to them.
The Republicans won't go to the extremes available to them because they are *afraid* of being called names by the Dems and the media. "Cringe" is the middle name of most GOPers in congress.
Beyond that, I believe the illegality of the Dem's actions is to the degree that the Republicans should be resorting to physically disruptive tactics. Shouting down debate, literally obstructing the ability to hold a vote. Block the halways, the floor, things of that nature.
We are witnessing a virtual ongoing coup here. IMO, nearly anything is justified in this fight. It's fight or die. In a real street fight you better not worrying about playing fair or you will end up in the hospital, or dead.
Finally, the Republicans are so squeamish that any of the few objections they vocalize are so "proper" it's disgusting. They need to be filing lawsuits and legal objections to everything Hussein does. I mean every little trivial thing.
If the press is going to excoriate you for a polite objection to an unconstitutional act, then quit being a pussy. Object in loud and vehement terms. Call O a Marxist, do it every time you talk to the press. Never let up.
It makes me livid that Republicans use all sorts of weenie terms for LIAR, but are too chicken$hit to say it. Then if one does, he is bludgeoned into apologizing by the rest of the weak sisters in the party.