I'm trying to figure out what exactly is going to change in the next two years if the GOP wins control of the Senate, and I'm drawing a huge blank on this one.
2014 might be remembered as one of the most inconsequential elections of my lifetime.
I assert that the GOPe doesn’t want the Senate because they’ll be expected to oppose Obama.
“I’m trying to figure out what exactly is going to change in the next two years if the GOP wins control of the Senate, and I’m drawing a huge blank on this one. “
Sadly, the same here. Mainly because conservatives tend to be straight shooters (in both senses of the word!). Sure - we don’t all get along all the time, or march in lock step. But we also are perfectly fine with leaving each other alone in most cases. I say most, because there are humdingers of fights when someone gets flicked on the raw, but most of the time it’s at the very least “listen to each other.” May not agree - but listening and thinking about what the others say seems to be reasonably well ingrained. It’s manners, if nothing else.
The Left don’t do that. Have you EVER managed to have a decent conversation about politics with a Leftist? I’m not talking about the old school Liberals here - we tend to have a fair amount of overlap between us. Unfortunately, they are hated by the Left even more than the Tea Party is!
The Leftists have been setting this up for several generations now. About the only way I can see to make any change at all is to tolerate the less squishy RINOs and take a leaf from the Left’s playbook - start local. Take the school boards. The town councils. The state legislatures. The legal and judicial systems.
It took at minimum 130 years to get to this state. Slowly and imperceptibly. Can’t be fixed by a single election, and you are correct that a GOP controlled Senate will show all the spine of a jellyfish next year.
It’s going to get a lot worse, before it gets better. No one is going to swoop in like Superman and save the country in a single bound. With maybe 3 exceptions (Cruz, Palin and (possibly) Walker) I can’t think of a single potential candidate for ‘16 that has the clear sight, guts and stubbornness to put the entire country before their pet projects. Even those three can’t do it alone - not until the culture itself changes.
Figure that’s our job. Change the culture. One mind at a time. One town at a time. One organization at a time.