Schumer can’t wait for Harry Reid to die so he can take over as leader. He will undoubtedly push Reid aside if and when the Republicans win the majority, but he will then be just the MINORITY Leader.
“Schumer can’t wait for Harry Reid to die so he can take over as leader. He will undoubtedly push Reid aside if and when the Republicans win the majority, but he will then be just the MINORITY Leader.”
It may be the 2014 elections are a setup for a Democrat landslide in 2016. The Dems may be content to allow the Republicans to gain the Senate in 2014. With control of both houses of Congress, the Republicans will then be positioned to be pounded by the Obama and the media for everything wrong in America. If the Republicans actually muster up enough backbone to pass legislation the president doesn’t like he will veto it with gusto. Essentially we’ll see more of the same we’ve endured the last 6 years with the Republicans caving, giving Obama everything he wants, and then being blamed when something Obama has done goes wrong.
By 2016 the White House propaganda machine and the media will have convinced the American people the Republicans are dangerous obstructionists whose goal is to line the pockets of the 1% while destroying minorities and women. Conservatives will be completely disgusted by the GOP minority caving and being slapped around by Obama. This sets the stage for Hillary to win the White House as the champion of women and assuming office with comfortable Democrat House and Senate majorities like Obama did in 2008. Hillary will come prepared with a leftist agenda to ram through Congress during her first two years - stringent gun control, destroy talk radio through reimposition of the fairness doctrine, control of “hate speech” on the internet, strict campaign finance rules that cut off corporate money to Republicans while allowing union money to flow, and possible single payer health care.
Unless the Republicans are prepared to assume control of both Houses of Congress in the 2014 elections, and aggressively reassert oversight of the bureaucracy and control of the budget, they will be toast in 2016. Somehow I don’t see a party led by John McCain, Karl Rove, the Bush family, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Eric Cantor doing anything but making noise and caving. They just have no stomach for a fight.