I thought the numbers for 2017 were 10 and 24 but agree that the Republicans have a big number to defend.
The Republicans need to show ‘something’ — that they can lead — and not just sink into a status quo/compromise/go along to get along mentality.
If they push amnesty through, that could be their ‘obamacare’ [Affordable Care] disaster that sinks them in 2016. Some 70% of the nation oppose amnesty, regardless of what cute title they come up with or how they try to redefine amnesty. If they push through other legislation or big spending, that could sink them. Most in 2014 ran on ‘the opposition candidate is too attached to Obama’.
I went down the list, so I could have missed some.
Someone last night was adamant — Byron York maybe — that one of the lesson’s of ObamaCare was that you don’t push through these huge comprehensive bills. Period. He included immigration...which really surprised me.
I hear the current comprehensive immigration bill is 1200 pages long. Why in the world 1200 pages?
It’s insane. It says so much that any passable lawyer could make it mean nothing...or whatever he wanted it to mean.