The Trifecta predictions are gloomy, but not necessarily correct if we get enough conservatives — who say what they mean and mean what they say — into both houses of the Congress. We need to try.
Beyond that, and also beyond whether the apparently archaic word “integrity” has been removed from the congressional dictionary, even RINOs might reject a few of Obama’s left-wing judicial appointees, and that’s important. Spending reductions? Maybe. Perhaps a Senate majority might even agree with a Republican controlled House.
I was graduated from Yale University in 1963 with a B.A. in economics and from the University of Virginia School of law, where I was the notes editor of the Virginia Law Review in 1966. Following four years of active duty with the Army JAG Corps, with two tours in Korea, I entered private practice in Washington, D.C. specializing in communications law. I retired in 1996 to sail with my wife, Jeanie, on our sailboat Namaste to and in the Caribbean. In 2002, we settled in the Republic of Panama and live in a very rural area up in the mountains.
I have contributed to Pajamas Media and Pajamas Tatler. In addition to my own blog, Dan Miller in Panama, I an an editor of Warsclerotic and contribute to China Daily Mail when I have something to write about North Korea.
If the Republicans win the Senate, even with just 50-something seats plus a few Democrats who will vote with them sometimes, they can make progress toward setting the stage for 2016. Granted, Obama will veto any legislation he doesn’t like (unless he can be pushed hard enough), but by consistently passing laws that the public likes, only to have Obama shoot them down, a strong point will be made.
This, of course, assumes that the Republicans can get their act together, and that may not happen.
If they do get the Senate, I hope they will keep Reid’s procedural devices to avoid “unwarranted, politically-biased” opposition ploys by the minority.
That’s an easy question to answer: Obama will simply do what he pleases (as if he doesn’t already) & dare the Republicans to impeach him. As long as the GOP doesn’t have a 2/3+ majority in the Senate, there is little they can do other than getting the House to fund his various projects, & they don’t have the balls for that.
I’m sad to say it, but the truth needs to be told: the GOP is utterly worthless & weak. The GOP leadership is as much of a friend to Obama as his biggest $ bundlers are.
I was graduated from Yale University in 1963 with a B.A. in economics and from the University of Virginia School of law, where I was the notes editor of the Virginia Law Review in 1966. Following four years of active duty with the Army JAG Corps, with two tours in Korea, I entered private practice in Washington, D.C. specializing in communications law. I retired in 1996 to sail with my wife, Jeanie, on our sailboat Namaste to and in the Caribbean. In 2002, we settled in the Republic of Panama and live in a very rural area up in the mountains.
I have contributed to Pajamas Media and Pajamas Tatler. In addition to my own blog, Dan Miller in Panama, I an an editor of Warsclerotic and contribute to China Daily Mail when I have something to write about North Korea.
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If the Republicans win the Senate, even with just 50-something seats plus a few Democrats who will vote with them sometimes, they can make progress toward setting the stage for 2016. Granted, Obama will veto any legislation he doesn’t like (unless he can be pushed hard enough), but by consistently passing laws that the public likes, only to have Obama shoot them down, a strong point will be made.
This, of course, assumes that the Republicans can get their act together, and that may not happen.
If they do get the Senate, I hope they will keep Reid’s procedural devices to avoid “unwarranted, politically-biased” opposition ploys by the minority.
What will happen if the GOP wins the Senate?
That’s an easy question to answer: Obama will simply do what he pleases (as if he doesn’t already) & dare the Republicans to impeach him. As long as the GOP doesn’t have a 2/3+ majority in the Senate, there is little they can do other than getting the House to fund his various projects, & they don’t have the balls for that.
I’m sad to say it, but the truth needs to be told: the GOP is utterly worthless & weak. The GOP leadership is as much of a friend to Obama as his biggest $ bundlers are.
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