Except the senate and the whitehouse would “insist” on an omnibus spending bill. No single appropriations are allowed.
Nothing will get done until after January. And even then Obama will just veto everything that comes his way.
Nothing will change until something changes.
>>Nothing will get done until after January. And even then Obama will just veto everything that comes his way.<<
I know people in here have a pretty low opinion of Representative Boehner and Senator McConnell, but one thing they do have is a good grasp of the mechanics of their offices.
As I said in the extended post above, it will be possible to structure spending bills in such a way that it will put both President Obama and Congressional Democrats in a very uncomfortable position should he consider vetoing them. And with control of both the House and Senate, they could do it.
With one caveat: The Senate GOP should follow Reid’s lead and scrap the current filibuster rule altogether. Australia just dropped its carbon tax, a tremendous turnaround of policy, but only 55% of its Senate voted to do so. If they’d have had our Senate filibuster policy, the turnaround wouldn’t have been possible.