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Vote with a vengeance to thwart GOP
Carroll County Times - Maryland ^ | October 24, 2014 | Katrina vanden Heuvel

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?

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And beyond her menagerie of grievance groups and beloved social issues, she's terrified that "without Reid in the way" the progressive movement's boot on the U.S. economy will be lifted.

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).

1 posted on 10/27/2014 2:15:45 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
catastrophic for the environment, workers, women and minorities.

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN

2 posted on 10/27/2014 2:19:06 AM PDT by palmer (Thank you for your patience.)
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catastrophic for the environment, workers, women and minorities.

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN

3 posted on 10/27/2014 2:20:34 AM PDT by palmer (Thank you for your patience.)
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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


4 posted on 10/27/2014 2:21:30 AM PDT by icwhatudo (Low taxes and less spending in Sodom and Gomorrah is not my idea of a conservative victory)
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This is one sneering leftist b**** that I just can't stand - even for a single moment.

Every time she opens that hole in her face it makes me wish we'd bring back the dunking stool:


5 posted on 10/27/2014 2:23:00 AM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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And beyond her menagerie of grievance groups and beloved social issues, she's terrified that "without Reid in the way" the progressive movement's boot on the U.S. economy will be lifted.

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.

6 posted on 10/27/2014 2:28:10 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Ah, the ever-constipated Katrina vanden Heuvel.


7 posted on 10/27/2014 2:33:23 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("Your apathy is their power." - Sarah Palin Jul 19, 2014)
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Katrina Vanden Heuvel... In the Carroll County Times? How she has fallen....


8 posted on 10/27/2014 2:33:34 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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Vanden Heuvel is a trust fund baby, a true communist, who uses her inheritance to publish The Nation, among other things.
9 posted on 10/27/2014 2:35:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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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.


10 posted on 10/27/2014 2:36:10 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Katrina Vanden Heuvel... In the Carroll County Times? How she has fallen....

This piece is making the rounds at the to-be-expected progressive MSM outlets.

11 posted on 10/27/2014 2:38:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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As I began reading this, I thought it was witty satire.


12 posted on 10/27/2014 2:54:18 AM PDT by Artie (We are surrounded by MORONS)
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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.”


13 posted on 10/27/2014 3:23:33 AM PDT by Slambat
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she’s not just constipated, she is Satan


14 posted on 10/27/2014 3:27:23 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hurricane Katrina, hateful leftist Harpy.


15 posted on 10/27/2014 3:42:57 AM PDT by windsorknot
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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!


16 posted on 10/27/2014 3:47:14 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

ANY Freeper who follows her advice is not worthy of being called a Freeper!!!


17 posted on 10/27/2014 3:47:40 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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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.

Bestill my heart!

From your lips, Katrina, to God's ears!

18 posted on 10/27/2014 3:48:31 AM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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On first glance I thought this was a vanity post by one of the many freepers who encourages killing off the GOP (figuratively, I think) so we can go out and form a Free Republic Party and get maybe 3-4 percent of the vote.

Instead, it's by van den Heuvel, another person who just happens to share the same goal.

Sorry about the confusion.

19 posted on 10/27/2014 3:55:41 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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Katrina vanden Heuvel is the author of The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama (Nation Books, 2011). She is also the editor of Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover and co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right.
20 posted on 10/27/2014 4:09:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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