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Originally Posted by Guest
Do you think with Boehner leaving things are going to get better in Congress? The Republicans have to get more aggressive, and do what tear up the Constitution? The Republican House can't deal with the Senate, which has rules, and not the Hastert rule.
The filibuster, which was used by McConnell to stop almost everything, is going to be used against them. What goes around comes around. Who gives a damn how aggressive the Republican House is going to be? Boehner tried to find the grey area, and his biggest enemy was his own party. Nobody but nobody will be able to deal with the extreme in the Republican House. The more aggressive the House becomes, the more frustrated they will become, because they want things to be black and white, and never give in on anything.
With Boehner leaving office, things just took a turn for the worse. The biggest assumption is that the Republicans will retain the Senate. There are 25+ Republican seats in the Senate up in the next election, and less than 10 Democratic seats. If the forces that have the outsiders leading in the polls for the Republican nomination, take aim at their own Republican senators up for reelection, and push Tea Party hopefuls, you can guarantee the Republicans will lose control of the Senate.
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I think it will be worse, much worse for a bit.
The Democrats have plied their trade very well in the halls of congress. In the senate would not allow any ammendments at all, disallowed discussion and NOT one bill from the house would ever leave the desk of Harry Reid.
Pelosi riegned supreme in the house and controlled every movement. Nothing the President wanted was denied him
Then in 2014, the Republicans took over both the Senate and the House and guess what....NOTHING CHANGED. NOTHING.
Democrats still manipulate the rules in both places....Iran a good example. The Democrats do not want a vote for the deal on their record so they simply stopped the voting. See, Harry Reid used the nuclear option to get any nominations the President wanted, but the Republicans did not use this option to insure that the Democrats had to vote on Iran.
And so it has gone. I think the entire Republican party is wondering what control over both bodies has gotten them if nothing has changed. As Bobby Jindal, for one, says he admires how Reid and Pelosi have used both houses and made sure they got what they want and wonders why the Republicans will not do the same.
I think Boehner with the best possible intentions just worried about it because it would tie up the government and the Democrats have become so good at blaming the Republicans, he would nt do it.
Now, I think that Republicans get more agressive and more Reid and Pelosi like in how they react.