Posted on 11/05/2014 2:52:23 AM PST by SkyPilot
Voters demanded change from Washington on Tuesday, and Republicans say its now up to President Barack Obama to deliver it.
But dont count on that happening.
The White House that emerges after the midterm elections wont look, act or sound drastically different than the one battered for months by Republicans and abandoned by Democrats desperate to hang onto power. The president will seek some common ground with Republicans, but there are limits to how far Obama wants to go and Senate Democrats will let him go.
Despite losing the Senate, Obama doesnt think too much should be read into election results from a handful of states that never approved of his job performance in the first place. Obama acknowledges that he needs to do better, and he will make modest adjustments to his staffing, messaging and legislative strategy in response. But he wont pivot to the right, as he did after his self-proclaimed shellacking in 2010, White House officials said in interviews this week.
Obama will strike a tone of compromise and accountability during his public remarks Wednesday, promising to work with Republicans who are interested in working with him. Hes gone almost two years without a major legislative achievement, leaving him very willing to start cutting deals, a senior administration official said, possibly on trade, corporate taxes and patent reform. Still, this posture isnt much different than the one hes projected for years.
At the same time, Obama wont back down from using his administrative powers, including plans to issue an executive order on immigration that could be the most aggressive unilateral action of his presidency.
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The GOP promised to move nominees faster than the Democrats did
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“Hold on folks. Hillary’s election depends on the democrats throwing this country into a recession or worse in the next year. In time to pin it on the GOP and run against the GOP controlled Congress”
Hillary’s success depends on if voters will look at the GOP candidate then look at Hillary and ask “What difference does it make???”
morphing libertarian wrote:
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The republicans will not do anything. LOL. The fact that there is no discussion about removing McC from the senate leadership position indicates how wrong it is for conservatives to keep wasting their votes on the GOP.
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Sadly, I fear you’re right. There’s at least some speculation that Ted Cruz may help lead a charge against McConnell being nominated as the new Senate Majority Leader. That likely wouldn’t succeed, but at least the Tea Party wing can put the establishment leadership on notice that there will be ongoing accountability within the party.
I have known little girls that comported themselves better than Obola.
There’s a lot of talk about what the triumphant Republicans will do during the next two years. I will be interested in seeing what the surviving Democrats do. What motivation do they have to support Obama anymore? Too many of them have already committed seppuku on behalf of the Dear Leader with no quid pro quo from him.
I think both parties should be leery of nominating an “untouchable” for their candidate. The dems were happy to see no repub dared criticize Obama but then the same handicap applied to them as they fought for and lost their political careers.
we might as well wait for Obama to overreact on something major. We know he will, Obama simply cant control himself ideologically so its only a matter of time before he does something that will get a large share of the public to support impeachment.
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