Republicans Are In Charge Now

[BeFree]

The republicans have won. They have the house again, and control the senate.

They have beaten Obama and made him eat his words.

From now on, let it be known far and wide, that if there is a problem with government, it is the republicans who are to blame.

[emulatorloo]

1. The USA is about to get a quick refresher course on Republican Crazy with Boehner's House of Reps

[Lucky 13]

20. What are they gonna do? Give tax breaks to the uber-wealthy? oh... wait...

[emulatorloo]

25. LOL! True. I'm talking more about House Energy and Commerce Committee

for example. The new head? Joe Barton. Yeah, that guy who "apologized" to BP.

Kooky investigations, batshit insane bills, you name it.

[BeFree]

26. Nothing but trouble

The House is what kept hope alive for the last 4 years, and now it's gone.

We'll have nothing but troubles. Obama had best work up an appetite for his words, eh?

[Lucky 13]

29. He'll be conceding shit left and right.

He's not capable of fighting them off. Of holding a line.

Or he doesn't want to.

Either way, we're in trouble.

[emulatorloo]

32. Boehner just named Michele Bachmann to House Intelligence Committee

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x31406

[dennis4868]

2. they have been in control of the senate...

for the past 2 years because of the fillubuster....the rules allow the minority party to be the majority party...really screwed up.

[BlueDemKev]

8. Filibuster....

...believe me, when the Republicans control the Senate again you will be VERY HAPPY the filibuster is there. From 2002-2006, it was the only thing that prevented the total packing of the entire federal judiciary with Scalia-Thomas type judges, the decimation of Social Security, and theocratic-type "Christian" laws from being enacted. Given how even much FURTHER to the right the Republicans have gone since losing the White House two years ago (which is apparently bringing them success), I wouldn't touch the filibuster.

[dennis4868]

14. But the dems never...

used the Fillubuster to break the senate completely where you could not get anything through that might make the president look good, even help for 911 responders and nutrition for children....I like the fillubuster but it needs to be changed so that it cannot be ABUSED by the minority party.....this is what the senate dems are discussing now.

[Better Believe It]

18. When the Republicans take control of the Senate they will defeat any serious Democratic filibusters

They will play hardball and will not adopt the Democratic Senate leaderships capitulate and surrender strategy.

Under current Senate rules Republicans will either force Democrats to engage in actual filibusters by not accepting Democratic phantom "procedural filibusters" or they could change Senate rules in January 2013 that will make Democratic filibusters almost impossible or they just use the Constitutional Option just like they did in 2005. In response to that Republican "threat", Democrats voluntarily gave up the right to filibuster against Bush's extreme right-wing Supreme Court nominations!

[Poboy]

3. Um, the republicans were never NOT in charge. They wear the pants.

It seems I cannot post what the Dems wear. Censored.

[HopeHoops]

6. Fuck that "wear the pants" thing. My wife wears pants all the time and.......

.... is a 3rd degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, less than 4'11" and all of 95 lbs, but she can kick the shit out of damn near everyone except for her seniors in the school. "Wears the pants" is as lame as "has balls".

[Poboy]

10. You go ahead and continue arguing over garment-calling.

I have bigger concerns. Namely corporate sell-outs who behave as servants and supplicants to the elite.

[HopeHoops]

12. I call those "Congress Critters"

On Edit: "wears the pants" is sexist, no matter how you look at it. No different from "get some balls".

Disclaimer: I've got balls, but I had the tubes cut after our third daughter was born.

[HopeHoops]

4. Oh bullshit. Let them fuck up for two years. That's to our advantage.

Obviously it is to the detriment of our country, but we really can't change that. Just let them fuck up. The attention span of the average idiot is about ten minutes. Some can remember a month or so ago. The Republicans will keep fucking up well into the next election cycle. The "throw the bums out" meme they champion will work against them then.

[PhillySane]

5. It's time for Democrats

to agressively defend the small advantage they still have. And we must all keep up the pressure on them.

[HopeHoops]

7. That would be nice if they actually tried it.

[Occam Bandage]

9. We own the White House. If things don't improve, we'll be the ones to get blamed.

Fair? No. That's politics.

[Lucky 13]

21. We own the White House that is implementing Republican policies.

It doesn't matter. It's all different sides of the same coin.

[BeFree]

28. Occam, where ya been, dude?

What do you mean ""we""? You got an Obama in your pocket?

[quinnox]

11. From the way things have gone the past two years

it feels like the republicans have always been in charge.

[FrancisTreptoe]

17. It just seems like no matter what we do or who we elect the same douchebags rule.

[Stargazer99]

13. It amazes me how many self-centered ignorant citizens

live in this country....that is how the Repubs got control....now the ignorant will learn the hard way.

[BeFree]

31. The ignorant almost never learn

But we learn, again, how the ignorant cause us big problems like we're fixing to live through.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. When weren't they in charge?

[Lucky 13]

22. For approximately 10 minutes in early 2009. If you blinked, you missed it.

[piratefish08]

16. sadly, they were never out of power. we were just deluded into thinking otherwise.

[Lucky 13]

19. +1

[spanone]

23. they may be in charge, but they will bear no burden of blame

[old mark]

24. They have evidently been in charge for some time, but I am sure

it will get much worse very soon...


mark

[RedCloud]

27. They had the SC-5 and created secret corporate overlords to rule elections.

[HughBeaumont]

30. Reagan has been president for 30 years.

His cabinet's been running shit into the ground for 30 years. We've always been at war with someone or something. The Wealthy have been conducting a turkey-shoot on the middle-working-poor and the Eternal Reagan White House gives them whatever weapons they need.

Never mind that some of the people who were the original architects of "Trickle Down" are now slinking away from that stenchy pile.

Just like the military continued to believe a liar like Rudolph Gehlen (even though his intelligence on the supposed military might of the Soviets had been proven false), American economists believed a snake-oil salesman like Milton Friedman even though his grand experiments in South America resulted in widespread chaos, joblessness and poverty.

We, the People, have been paying a grave price ever since.

[Marr]

33. Sorry, but NO. Were the Democrats "in charge" for the last two years of Bush's tenure?

The Republicans have the House and that is ALL. Anything that passes is Obama's and the Democratic Party's-- and that's who will take the blame.

They'd love to convince you that they just can't do anything, that they're helpless before the Republicans' control of the government, but that is bullshit. When they push conservative, big business legislation, it's because they *want* to.

[lonestarnot]

34. No party in charge only corporate warmongering richie riches.