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Here’s What Happens When the GOP Takes Over the Senate (Crying Liberal Alert)
Daily Beast ^ | 04.30.14 | Michael Tomasky

Posted on 04/30/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by kingattax

From abortion bans to Obamacare cuts to, maybe, an empty Supreme Court chair, the Republicans already know exactly what they’ll do if they get control of both houses of Congress.

Passing a federal law banning almost all abortions after 20 weeks. Defunding parts of Obamacare. Weakening the Environmental Protection Agency. Kneecapping the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Elizabeth Warren’s baby, the new agency within the Fed to police consumer fraud. And—maybe, just maybe—letting a Supreme Court seat sit vacant until after the next presidential election.

That’s just the start of what happens if the Republicans win back the Senate this November. Imagine, posits a top aide to Mitch McConnell, a steady stream of legislation, much of it conservative, that will force Barack Obama to start vetoing bills for essentially the first time in his presidency.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2014senaterace; dailybeast; dnctalkingpoints; newsweak
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1 posted on 04/30/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

John Cornyn won’t let that happen.


2 posted on 04/30/2014 6:02:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: kingattax

All good things


3 posted on 04/30/2014 6:05:19 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: kingattax

How about impeaching Obama and Holder, repealing Obamacare and eliminating the EPA, BLM and IRS?


4 posted on 04/30/2014 6:05:57 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: kingattax

History has already shown us what will happen, they will roll over on their backs like a submissive dog.


5 posted on 04/30/2014 6:06:25 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Junk Silver

Don’t forget the Education Dept.!!!!!!!


6 posted on 04/30/2014 6:08:52 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: kingattax

If the GOPE takes over the senate, they will do nothing but collect their pay, play golf, make speeches and attend fundraisers.


7 posted on 04/30/2014 6:08:52 PM PDT by Texas resident (The democrat party is now the CPUSA)
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To: nickcarraway
"John Cornyn won’t let that happen."

And Ditch Mitch will be at his side...

8 posted on 04/30/2014 6:09:15 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: kingattax

If Republicans take over the Senate, I bet the first thing that gets passed is the most comprehensive immigration bill ever imagined.


9 posted on 04/30/2014 6:10:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Mastador1

My dog LOVES rubby tummies; Too bad the GOPe Senate leaders don’t feel the same way...


10 posted on 04/30/2014 6:10:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Mastador1

.....and then hump Obama’s leg.


11 posted on 04/30/2014 6:11:09 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

LOL, U R BAD!


12 posted on 04/30/2014 6:13:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Texas resident

Don’t forget praise their friends on the other side of the aisle.


13 posted on 04/30/2014 6:16:36 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: kingattax

Michael Tomasky (born 1960) is a liberal American columnist, journalist and author. He is the editor in chief of Democracy, a special correspondent for Newsweek / The Daily Beast, a contributing editor for The American Prospect, and a contributor to The New York Review of Books.

14 posted on 04/30/2014 6:18:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Paladin2

Well, it’s true! :)


15 posted on 04/30/2014 6:19:05 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Paladin2

The Republicans didn’t do that when they had all three branches of government. What makes anyone think they would start now with a more liberal Senate?


16 posted on 04/30/2014 6:21:02 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: kcvl

Boy, I bet he got a lot of dates in HS. /s. (Which, ultimately, folks, is the mentality we’re dealing with.)


17 posted on 04/30/2014 6:21:32 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: kcvl

Looks like he’d lick a snake.


18 posted on 04/30/2014 6:22:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: kingattax

Daily Beast’s Tomasky: ‘Democrat’ Racism is a ‘Fantasy;’ Minimizes Sharpton, Reid’s Remark

“This is something conservatives don’t understand. Or rather, they understand it—but they can’t acknowledge it. They can’t acknowledge this larger context of Democratic support for the things that have mostly improved black people’s lives and Republicans’ almost total opposition to them since at least the 1980s....”

While Tomasky cited Biden, Reid, and Clinton, the Daily Beast columnist brushed them aside as not “real, seriously racist.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2014/04/28/daily-beasts-tomasky-democrat-racism-fantasy-minimizes-sharpton-reids#ixzz30QGZbPaf


19 posted on 04/30/2014 6:22:08 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kingattax

What changes when the GOP takes over? Nothing, absolutely nothing that the D’s wouldn’t do.


20 posted on 04/30/2014 6:22:11 PM PDT by zek157
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