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(19,537 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)that any budget he passes will require the President's signature to become law.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)but the Republicans will control nowhere near 2/3 of the Senate in their wildest dreams.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)much for that.
They may not control 2/3, but that doesn't mean they can't get the votes, especially if they have the majority in both houses - because other people will want things done too, and will have to ask them pretty please.
Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)to support, for instance, a budget that would defund the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), which McConnel has threatened to do, might as well change their affiliation to Republican, because they would never see another dime from the DNC when election time comes around. It would be political suicide.
What we are in for is two years of nothing being done with the Republicans showing the country the ridiculous things they would do if they took the White House.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Kablooie
(18,634 posts)And the Republicans can point directly to Obama as being the only thing preventing it.
And they will use all this power of misdirection to muddy up the Democratic party so we may not win anything back in 2016.
It will be bad, very bad.
And from all the media reports it sounds like it is our future, like it or not.
Everything says the chances that Republicans grab the Senate are very rosy.
Rosy just like a freshly whipped bottom.
MontyPow
(285 posts)This kind of thinking by Democrats is why apathy reigns supreme.
Mr.Bill
(24,304 posts)And those have not gone well for the Republicans lately. Public opinion polls showed most blaming them.
MontyPow
(285 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Really great record.
malaise
(269,079 posts)Dems will maintain control of the Senate
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)They wouldn't have enough votes to override a veto, and they're a bunch of lazy-asses anyway.