Republicans already plotting to obstruct Clinton Administration

[RandySF]

Hillary Clinton has managed to win support from Republicans without conceding any part of the progressive economic agenda she outlined during the Democratic primary.

But with fall approaching and momentum on Clinton’s side, Democrats and Republicans alike are looking over the horizon to a thornier reality: if elected, Clinton would likely become the first Democrat since Grover Cleveland to enter office without control of both houses of Congress.

That means the bipartisan show of support she has now -- thanks to Donald Trump and the “alt-right,” conspiracy-driven campaign Clinton attacked Thursday in Reno -- is likely to evaporate as soon as the race is called. If she wins the presidency, Clinton would likely enjoy the shortest honeymoon period of any incoming commander-in-chief in recent history, according to Washington strategists, confronting major roadblocks to enacting her ambitious agenda, as well as Republican attacks that have been muted courtesy of the GOP nominee.

“It will be the defining fact of her presidency,” Jonathan Cowan, president of the moderate think tank Third Way, said of Clinton's problem of entering office with a divided Congress. “It’s unprecedented."


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-presidency-gop-plan-227427#ixzz4IYRWuvRR

[chillfactor]

1. that depends

if we regain control of the Senate....McConnell will once again have to take a back seat and Hillary can get some justices through the Senate.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. When Hillary is elected, much depends on whether she has a House and/or Senate.

If she has both, then she needs to go full-steam ahead on attacking and killing gerrymandering. Redistricting must be put permanently into the hands of independent commissions who district on the basis of sound geographical divisions.

If she has neither, then she must continually make clear that the obstruction of the last 8 years by Republicans continues and that it is false and [font size="+1"]a lie to blame "Congress" when the Republican members are the cause.[/font]

Of course GOtV is key to the preferred alternative.

[mopinko]

3. faulty assumption, imo.

i dont think she will go in w neither house. i think this election will be a major realignment. the gop as we know it will be dead come nov.

[greymattermom]

4. If she gets the Senate but not the House

She will figure out a way to make the obstructionists pay. She will figure out a way to reduce any federal projects, contracts, etc. in their districts, explaining to them that they voted for reduced spending, etc. All of us who have been moms know how to do this. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?

[MineralMan]

5. Of course they are. All the more reason to GOTV!

[bullimiami]

6. Let's make the campaign about obstruction.

Why is Washington broken.

One word

Republicans.

[Peacetrain]

7. You can almost count on that one!

[politicaljunkie41910]

8. So McConnell has already reserved the room at the Washington steakhouse where they met on the eve of

Obama's inauguration to plot their plan to return to power. Surprise, Surprise.

[madville]

9. The Senate seems about 50/50 right now and the House majority unlikely

Plus figure that the Senate goes back or stays Republican in 2018 and the GOP will get back some House additional House seats since midterms are typically not good for the sitting President (look at 2006, 2010, and 2014).

Nothing really big gets done without 60 votes in the Senate anyway and Clinton will never see that, not in her first term anyway. Under the current rules, Supreme Court nominations also still need 60 votes while all other federal judges currently only need 51.

[TeamPooka]

10. If you expected anything less you should be ashamed. nt