Posted on 12/07/2014 9:01:18 PM PST by PROCON
Republicans will hold at least 246 House seats come January, according to election results on Saturday, giving the GOP a commanding majority that matches the party's post-World War II high during Democratic President Harry S. Truman's administration.
The GOP retained control of two seats in runoffs in Louisiana, expanding the advantage for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who can afford defections from his increasingly conservative caucus and still get legislation passed.
Combined with the Republican takeover of the Senate, Congress will be all-GOP for the final two years of President Barack Obama's second term.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And what will they do with their MANDATE ?
Cave?
There! Fixed it.
We’re a little bit better off than 2010 elections since some patriots are waking up to Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
And if it weren’t for the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the Senate might have kicked House-impeached lawless Obama out of office by now.
Just what we need, more laws passed.
AP hearts John Boner.
Wow! Not only does repealing the 17th ensure all the new Senators will be clones of Patrick Henry, it also magically ensures the House of Representatives (which would still be directly elected by DEMOCRACY anyway... the worst form of government EVER, mind you!!!) will be much more conservative and impeach Obama. Yes sir, the moment the 17th is repealed, all the duly-elected Congressman will have a "come to Jesus" moment and replace Boehner with Speaker of the House Mark Levin, too.
Given that repealing the 17th can magically effect other political bodies that have nothing to do with its passage, we can rest assured that repealing the 17th will also cure cancer, end world hunger, stop broken marriages, and ensure there are rainbows and unicorns around every household in America.
Of course the thing it repealing the 17th would NEVER do is give us the situation we had in the Senate immediately prior to the passage of the 17th, when it was filled with a bunch of corrupt government appointed hacks (several of whom got indicted for attaining their Senate seat through bribery), which happily passed the 16th amendment and didn't give a hoot about "saving our Republic".
247 unless the rats steal a recount in AZ, most since the 1929-30 House which was 270 R.
54 is one off our post depression high in the Senate.
Anyone want to calculate the partisan breakdown of Senate come 2015 if the 17th was repealed 6 years ago?
The 2 houses in each state would vote together I believe. Not bothering to look up who had the overall numerical edge in states with divided control, I come up with 60-40. If the rats poured all their millions into state leg races (as they would have if they chose still Senators), less.
I can tell you this, it’s would 100% be less than 67 R (and the number of true RINOS would be higher with the electorate reduced to a handful of politicians, expect rats and RINOs to combine an elect RINOs in many GOP states), so enough with the impeachment fantasy on top of the repeal the 17th fantasy.
“Cave?”
No CAVE!!!! They are already doing it.
Waiting for Nazi Penutty to say it’s not a rejection of democrats but voter suppression. again.
What?
>> And what will they do with their MANDATE ?
Seemingly getting dicked by Boehner.
Not one dime’s worth of difference ... The Uniparty.
They are caven and craven. 216 of them just voted for the GOP leadership’s loophole to legalize Obama’s amnesty.
So what?
Exclusive: House GOP Leaders Trick 216 House Republicans into Accidentally Supporting Obama's Executive Amnesty
With leadership like Boehner and the RINO from Ky. they’re guaranteed to fumble it right back to a RAT landslide in ‘16.
As far as I can tell, the vague stories concerning bribery and corruption in the Senate before the 17th Amendment (17A) was ratified are what’s left of the propaganda that the Progressive Movement had arguably been using since the 1820s to help kill state sovereignty by giving misguided voters the power to elect federal senators.
And after Progressives won control of the Senate through 17A, the final hurdle to overthrowing the constitutional republic is to take control of the Oval Office by eliminating the electoral college by likewise giving low-information voters the power to vote for president.
The bottom line is that corrupt politicians don’t fight for control of DC because they want to control the US Mail Service (1.8.7), one of the very few powers that the states delegated to the feds which affects intrastate commerce. As evidenced by Justice Marshall’s words below about Congress’s limited power to lay taxes, corrupt politicians fight for control of DC so that they can abuse 10th Amendment-protected state powers and steal state revenues revenue associated with those powers, criminal activity which the corrupt feds have been cheating the voters with for many generations imo.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Regarding the 16th Amendment (16A), the Supreme Court had historically clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
And since one of the likely reasons that the Founding States established the federal Senate was so that senators could defend their states by killing House appropriations bills which wrongly stole 10th Amendment-protected state powers and state revenues associated with those powers as mentioned above, the problem with 16A is this. The 16th Amendment just made it easier for the corrupt senators elected by the popular vote of the 17th Amendment to turn around and help the corrupt House rob the voters who elected them by laying constitutionally indefensible federal taxes on them.
Are we having fun yet?
What a mess! :^P
Want to educate our friend Amendment10 about the "vague" stories about pre-17th amendment bribery that he claims were "propaganda"?
Reminds me of the left claiming stories of dead people voting are just "right-wing propaganda" made up for the purposes of suppressing minority voters.
Repealing the 17th is our only hope now
Either that or splitting up the country into multiple countries.
Or electing Donald Trump.
I’d support the second option long before the first.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.