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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DUH!! Yes!! Holy Moly THINK!!! I am so disappointed in my fellow Freeper’s thinking.
Stepping into the cesspool of the leftist mind,
it’s more about whether those in power “care”, or claim to, about those groups/issues - not whether they benefit them in actuality.
The “true evil” is when people “don’t care” about those issues.
Ironically, in the “don’t care” environment, those issues actually tend to do better.
You may want to read my post more closely.
Yeah, me too! (however she may mean Marylanders, cause a vast majority still vote Dem, but I doubt they were FReepers)
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