Republicans, heading for big gains, ready agenda

Started by walkstall, October 27, 2010, 09:12:07 PM

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walkstall

 8) But I think they are talking more then they should right now.   :-\

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders, ever more confident of their chances of winning control of the House and possibly even the Senate, have begun plotting a 2011 agenda topped by a push for more than $100 billion in spending cuts, tax reductions and attempts to undo key parts of President Barack Obama's health care and financial regulation laws.

The question is how much of the GOP's government-shrinking, tax-cutting agenda to advance, and how fast.

It's certain that Republicans want to capitalize quickly on tea party-fueled anger and the antiestablishment fervor that they believe will provide momentum to accomplish an activist to-do list. It's equally clear, however, that the outsized expectations of a fed-up electorate and a crop of unruly newcomers could complicate the plans. So could Obama and fellow Democrats who will still be around after Tuesday's elections.

GOP lawmakers are publicly mum about much of what they intend to do if they prevail in midterm congressional contests. Many say privately they want to avoid appearing to "measure the drapes" for new leadership offices before winning any majority.


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Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

Cryptic Bert

They should concentrate on budget cuts and repealing Obamacare...

crepe05

I'm glad that they've got a plan if they win.  I'm just afraid of counting too many chickens before election day. 

Shooterman

I predict at best, they will only make a half assed attempt at repeal of Obamacare.
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quiller

Quote from: Shooterman on October 28, 2010, 06:19:22 AM
I predict at best, they will only make a half assed attempt at repeal of Obamacare.
Optimist.  When the campaign funds start flowing, the legislators will suddenly lose interest. As it is, what do THEY consider "key elements"? To someone earning in a year what THEY are, it's very likely NOT what the retirees will say is important.

Pepe

The very first move the hapless Pubbies should make in the next Congress is to send a Bill to the House floor to Repeal Obamacare and force a Roll Call Vote for the record.

With a Pub majority it should pass the House.

Then.........................the Pub minority in the Senate should have enough strength to call for a Roll Call vote in the Senate.

However, I like to remind myself the McConnel and Boehner are part of the "old school" that are part of the "problem."

I cannot imagine these two being part of the solution.

It's hard for Old Socialists/Nationalists to change their stripes.

wally

Quote from: walkstall on October 27, 2010, 09:12:07 PM
8) But I think they are talking more then they should right now.   :-\

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders, ever more confident of their chances of winning control of the House and possibly even the Senate, have begun plotting a 2011 agenda topped by a push for more than $100 billion in spending cuts, tax reductions and attempts to undo key parts of President Barack Obama's health care and financial regulation laws.

The question is how much of the GOP's government-shrinking, tax-cutting agenda to advance, and how fast.

It's certain that Republicans want to capitalize quickly on tea party-fueled anger and the antiestablishment fervor that they believe will provide momentum to accomplish an activist to-do list. It's equally clear, however, that the outsized expectations of a fed-up electorate and a crop of unruly newcomers could complicate the plans. So could Obama and fellow Democrats who will still be around after Tuesday's elections.

GOP lawmakers are publicly mum about much of what they intend to do if they prevail in midterm congressional contests. Many say privately they want to avoid appearing to "measure the drapes" for new leadership offices before winning any majority.


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The problem with all politicians, ragardless of their party affiliation is that they are all politicians!

Sometimes it seems to come down to which one do you think will do us the least harm!
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
~ Nikita Khrushchev

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

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walkstall

Quote from: wally on October 28, 2010, 07:58:32 AM
Sometimes it seems to come down to which one do you think will do us the least harm!

Now I think most of us have the same opinion for the last 60 years. 
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

wally

Quote from: walkstall on October 28, 2010, 08:04:23 AM
Now I think most of us have the same opinion for the last 60 years.
I'm only sixty years young!  I was registered as an Independent until 1979, when I first registered as a Republican.  I registered as a Republican as much to vote against George Bush and Bob Dole, in the primary, as I did to vote for Ronald Reagan!  Bush and Dole didn't get any better.  Reagan surprized me by turning out to be much better than I thought he was going to be.  He still represnts the best POTUS that I've seen in my lifetime!
The press is our chief ideological weapon.
~ Nikita Khrushchev

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

~Ronald Reagan

walkstall

Quote from: wally on October 28, 2010, 09:19:27 AM
I'm only sixty years young!  I was registered as an Independent until 1979, when I first registered as a Republican.  I registered as a Republican as much to vote against George Bush and Bob Dole, in the primary, as I did to vote for Ronald Reagan!  Bush and Dole didn't get any better.  Reagan surprized me by turning out to be much better than I thought he was going to be.  He still represnts the best POTUS that I've seen in my lifetime!

So do that make you a Republican in name only lolol
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

quiller

I was a conservative in high school, completely turned off by the repulsive fairy-tale JFK presidency and its seething underbelly of corruption exemplified by that POS Johnson. Then I joined the service, where I found myself often on the liberal side in the very, very few cases where politics was openly discussed.

Johnson, who drafted and murdered a whole lot of my fellow Americans (and sent me to become a front-line seagoing REMF in 'Nam) soured me forever on the Donks. So I knew I wasn't a liberal, but then came Tricky Dick and his thugs, and for that first election I stayed out of it. Even then we knew elections were routinely stolen by falsifying military ballots. It just didn't pay to be politically active, with a war going on.

After I got out it was the second-term fiascoes that turned me away from the GOP. They'd handed it to the China Lobby and that greasy thug opened us up to the same investments now threatening to subsume our entire way of life. Thanks, GOP.

Then in 1976, I met and shook hands with Jiminy Peanut (the week before his election) --- and knew that although I virulently hated the criminal Nixon and the psychopath Johnson, there was no way anything good would come from electing that sanctimonious lying hypocrite.

I have never been anything except a registered Independent, and every time I go into a ballot box, I want to bring an airsickness bag.

AmericanFlyer

Quiller, you said it all.  Every time I go into the voting booth, I just shake my head in disappoint and disbelief.

Let me see, which "lesser of two evils" should I vote for this time around.  Should I vote for the Democrat, who lies and spends other people's money and votes in lockstep with his leftist masters, or should I vote for the Republican in name only who pretends to be a conservative but is really a sleazy moderate, who has no spine, and who will sell his vote to the highest bidder.

What a helluva choice.

Shooterman

Quote from: quiller on October 28, 2010, 06:54:39 AM
Optimist.  When the campaign funds start flowing, the legislators will suddenly lose interest. As it is, what do THEY consider "key elements"? To someone earning in a year what THEY are, it's very likely NOT what the retirees will say is important.

Oh, I have no doubts there are many of the PUB Slugs that do not even want to confront the problems associated with the repeal. Many of their constituents will tar and feather them next election cycle. PUBS, especially when facing re-election can be the most sanctimonious twits in the world ( witness Boehner, McConnell, and some of the other center ring freaks that try to pass themselves off as conservatives.

Nah, as usual, the PUBS will talk, confer, caucus, scratch their bellies, and generally sling dingleberries around, and not a thing will get done. Most of those nitwits are as useless as teats on a boar. 
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Yankees are like castor oil. Even a small dose is bad.
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taxed

With this election, I think there are more candidates that people actually want to vote for, versus lesser of two evils.

I WOULD want to vote for O'Donnell, especially after hearing her more the past two weeks; I WOULD want to vote for Joe Miller;  I WOULD want to vote for Sean Bielat;  I WOULD want to vote for Rand Paul, etc.


Dick Morris last night stood strong on us taking the Senate too....  He made some good points.  I'll find the video...
#PureBlood #TrumpWon

AmericanFlyer

Dick Morris?  Oh yeah, he's the guy who wrote an entire book back in 2008 about the "fact" that Hillary Clinton would be our next President.

Good call, Dickie!