Posted on 10/27/2014 2:15:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
With days to go until the midterms, and with polls pointing to the prospect that Republicans could take control of the Senate, the stakes are high not just for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats, but for the United States. The consequences of Republican control of both the House and Senate could be catastrophic for the environment, workers, women and minorities.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has promised a gathering of donors hosted by the Koch brothers that "we're not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals things like raising the minimum wage extending unemployment the student loan package."
And it won't just be progressive proposals that are stymied. Consider the judges who will never make it to the bench, including the highest, when it is Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and not Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who is in charge of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Consider the destabilizing political circus Republicans will create for the Obama administration and the nation when California Rep. Darrell Issa's hyper-partisan investigations into fake scandals spread from the House to the Senate.
If Republicans take charge of key Senate committees, they will restrict and remake the range of debate. What happens, for example, when Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., formerly president of the right-wing Club for Growth, takes over Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown's subcommittee that oversees financial institutions and consumer protection? What happens to the Iran nuclear negotiations if McConnell, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., are deciding when to bring up a sanctions bill?
(Excerpt) Read more at carrollcountytimes.com ...
Read it all - all the deliciously wonderful things that could happen with a GOP controlled House and Senate (and toss in those close governors' races).
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN
WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN
Keeping men out of little girls rooms and only allowing the killing of unborn babies under 20 weeks old.
Wow-what an extreme right wing agenda. We should all be afraid. /s
Every time she opens that hole in her face it makes me wish we'd bring back the dunking stool:
No, without Reid in the way, the GOP agenda will be dumped on Obama's desk in the form of bills to sign or veto. It will get in the way of golf.
Whichever he does, it's a good way to lay out a 2016 platform.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel... In the Carroll County Times? How she has fallen....
Gee whiz, this vacuous twit thinks the Senate will actually be Conservative under a GOP majority. You’d have to go back to the 1920s for that.
This piece is making the rounds at the to-be-expected progressive MSM outlets.
As I began reading this, I thought it was witty satire.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has promised a gathering of donors hosted by the Koch brothers that “we’re not going to be debating all these gosh darn proposals
things like raising the minimum wage
extending unemployment
the student loan package, abolishing
Obamacare, cutting taxes, impeaching the Obama, holding
the administration accountable for its many crimes, no
we are going to set there and sit on our hands and cluck
like a bunch of ignorant chickens.”
she’s not just constipated, she is Satan
Hurricane Katrina, hateful leftist Harpy.
Katrina Vanden Shovel is (or was) the publisher or editor-in-chief of the blood-red Nation magazine.
She also used to make regular appearances on TV.
Blecch!
ANY Freeper who follows her advice is not worthy of being called a Freeper!!!
Bestill my heart!
From your lips, Katrina, to God's ears!
Instead, it's by van den Heuvel, another person who just happens to share the same goal.
Sorry about the confusion.
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