Of course nothing is going to change for the next two years even if the GOP wins a smashing victory this November.
BHO is still POTUS for the next two years. He can still veto anything he doesn’t like or doesn’t want. And I fully expect him to do just that. Stalemate is the best we can hope for right now.
But EVERY election is important. In 2006 the Dems scored a significant victory in the midterm election, taking control of both houses of Congress, which led to an even bigger victory for them in 2008 when the elected their POTUS and increased their margins in both houses of Congress which in turn gave them the support and votes they needed to push through their aggressive domestic agenda which of course included Obamacare.
That is why this midterm is critically important. We have to work with what we have. There is nothing perfect in politics.
He won't have to. The Democrats will filibuster everything in sight.
Stalemate is the best we can hope for right now.
Stalemate is what we have now. So in other words even Orman wouldn't chance a thing.
That is why this midterm is critically important. We have to work with what we have. There is nothing perfect in politics.
I'm sorry but I truly believe that is a very short-sighted viewpoint that will leave us with nothing but McConnells and McCains for election cycles to come. The Tea Party will die out because the establishment will ignore it and belittle it. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee will be marginalized and forced out of the Senate. But hey, we may have Mitch McConnell running things so everything's good.
The GOP will likely lose the Senate in 2016. The numbers are stacked against them. Two years of Mitch McConnell as majority leader will accomplish nothing. But two election cycles where the GOP establishment is brought up short and taught that the Conservative vote is not a given to candidate who pay only lip-service to true Conservative principles may mean that in 2018 we could have a Senate where men like Cruz and Lee are the norm if not the majority. Where there is real leadership. And where a Republican president could get things done. By my way of thinking that longer term goal is worth the risk of a Senator Orman.
The problem is, in 2016, us keeping the Senate is a virtual impossibility. We have too many seats in play. It’s just not going to happen. If we win it this year, WE WILL LOSE it in 2016. Not even a doubt.