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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat are the odds that the Republican Majority will almost immediately overreach?
by almost immediately i mean within the first 6 months of taking power.
Bryant
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100% - it's a lock | |
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50% to 74% it's somewhat likely | |
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25% to 49% it's somewhat unlikely | |
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1% to 24% it's very unlikely | |
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0% it's not gonna happen | |
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What are the odds that the Republican Majority will almost immediately overreach? (Original Post)
el_bryanto
Nov 2014
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well - i thought that it was generous too - but decided to give it a few months anyway nt
el_bryanto
Nov 2014
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Six months is awfully generous. I give them 6 hours.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. well - i thought that it was generous too - but decided to give it a few months anyway nt
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,412 posts)3. It's a certainty IMHO
It's just a matter of when and how.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)4. It's been working for them so far, so why wouldn't they?
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)10. The point to overreaching though is to reach past what you can get
In otherwords to push their agenda so much or so harshly it proves an embarrassment. Like when Gingrich shut down the government.
Bryant
Peacetrain
(22,876 posts)5. You can take it to the bank on that one!
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)6. I give them 6 minutes.
They are working on crazy legislation right now.
rock
(13,218 posts)7. How fast can they get anything done?
I'd say 6 months is a fair number to give them.
madokie
(51,076 posts)8. 100%
nothing less for those bastids
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)9. They have paid NO political penalty for overreach, so of course they will.
Until the Democrats can figure out how to make republicans' antics cost them, the pubs won't stop. Why should they?
In the past election, did one Democrat even bother to run an ad about the republicans' government shutdown?
Perhaps what we consider overreach is something the voters have no problem with?
rug
(82,333 posts)11. Have you seen the little piggies
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)12. Poll needs a choice "200%"...nt
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)13. Yes. Will they get away with it? Probably.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)14. Is it "ovverreach" if you get away with it? nt
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)15. This is the reason I hit pass