Hopefully not but I havent seen House Republicans do much good with their majority, except a couple of investigations.
Otherwise getting control just allowed Obama to make ‘the Republican congress’ the bad guy, something that couldnt work for him last year. Now he has all the magic fixes that will fix everything, he just didnt have didnt think of them last year yet.
Republicans better :
A) start fighting back
or
B) convince voters Obama controls congress, much like Pelosi did with Bush in 2007 and 2008.
1. It's not quite possibel to score the 2012 House races yeat, because several states have yet to finish redistricting. Preliminary analysis indicates that dem gerrymandering, primarily in California and Illinois, may yeild the Dems 10+ seats. This is more than offset by the increases in electoral votes that red states received after the 2010 census. Two key states, Florida (+2 seats) and Texas (+4 seats) are still in the mix, but should yield 4-5 new GOP seats. Several blue dog Dems are in serious trouble, so it's probably more likely that the GOP majority in the House will INCREASE.
2. As many here have pointed out, it's not the fact of a GOP House that's important, it's what they actually DO with their majority. I think that the 2012 GOP Hoiuse caucus will be considrably MORE conservative than the current one, and able to exert greater pressure on the leadership. We shall see.
Yea. I wouldn’t role anything out. If we lose the House, things are going to get worse then they where during Pelosi’s first rein of power.
You are right in what you say.
But getting them to do your points A and B, well, you know.
Thanks sickoflibs.
Zero and his fellow criminals can and should be beaten with the following (for starters):
1) undermining employment, particularly in the energy sector
2) Fast and Furious (Holder needs to go to prison over this)
3) foreign drug cartels invading US territory from Mexico
4) undermining US interests abroad
5) failure to support democracy in Zimbabwe, Somalia, elsewhere in Africa
6) rolling over for every tinpot Muzzie despot and gang of jihadist murderers
7) price of oil
8) cost of living
9) deficits, constant push for more taxes, Obamacare