If the Republicans win the Senate in 2014 it will be more of a vote signaling dissatisfaction with Obama and the Democrats than a vote “for” the GOP. At this point in the campaign the Republican Party stands for nothing other than being “against” Obama. The party has provided no statement of principles to which all of its candidates adhere. There is no 2014 version of the “contract for America” and apparently there will not be one.
Voting for almost every GOP Senate candidate is like voting for door #2 on Let’s Make a Deal. If the Republicans win the Senate in 2014, they’ll let us see behind the door in January 2015. Based on what we saw behind the House of Representatives door in 2011 I’m not counting on much.
We've already seen the door to hell open so it has to be bettter. I can only hope, a lot better.
The ‘Rats will likely retake the Senate in 2016. What will the GOPe do in the two years they may be given?
It really doesn’t matter if McConnell is Majority Leader. The GOP has signaled there will be no engaged opposition to the Obama agenda.
The Dems will go to their GOP bench for the big votes if needed. We’ll get more of the cloture vote shenanigans from the GOP to avoid confrontation with the kenyan. Nothing will change as long as the current GOP leadership is running the show in DC.