What will the Republicans do now?

Getting ready to go under ground.

You know the underground bunkers the government is building for when the solar flairs take out the grid. In 2012/13.

No, they are going to keep Obama in check. The system works better when neither party, be it the Democrats or Republicans, is too powerful

Not much. They control only the House.

Hopefully none of the above.

When a thing is inherently flawed, it is necessary to scrap it and start over – if you don’t, the result is Windows 95.
Mama always said to shop around, not buy the first pair of shoes that fits. You want us to settle for mediocrity?

1. Grind up the children of the poor to make sausage for their wild, drunken orgies.

2. Invent and spread fantastic new diseases that can only be staved off (slowly, badly and at enormous expense, as the patients weaken and wither) with the drugs of Big Pharma.

3. Create a coast-to-coast oil slick, just because they can and they feel like it.

4. Sacrifice your remaining kids (the ones who haven’t been turned into sausage) in a fruitless and pointless war with Iran, in order to fatten the wallets of defense contractors.

Whose ideas are wilder and sillier, @BoBo1946? Yours or mine?

Clog up the system so nothing gets going till 2012 and they hope they have a republican president in place by then and vote themselves a pay raise.
Always the same ole stuff.
@CyanoticWasp, I think Number one on your list is a possibility. ( I think they are already in the school lunches. That is how they help keep school funding down.) ;p

Soylent Green is Republicans!

nothing remotely humanitarian.

Just help stop Obama and the Democratic Party from destroying what is left of America though I think it is far too little too late. By the way I am neither republican nor democrat but glad that the vote went how it did. I would rather have voted in the Constitutionalists.

@JustmeAman they could start by stopping America destroy the rest of the world, sort that one out first :)

I think they will probably cause gridlock. The Tea Partiers have already said that they “will not compromise” with the Democrats on anything. I can see the House coming up with lots of bills that the Senate won’t do anything about, and vice versa. Yet another “Do-Nothing” Congress.

@mammal

When you understand why America is doing what they are doing you will understand what is going on with the World. America is being used and will continue in that roll. I just hope that this vote gave the public a little more say in what takes place in America.

Probably repeal health care reform, undoing the only (however minor) step the country has taken to actually giving a shit about it’s own people, in years. Other than that, I expect relatively little, and another change out in 2–4 years.

@Smashley

Are you kidding. You call wasting BILLIONS of dollars giving a shit?

Oh, you so have my hopes up, @Dr_Dredd. I just hope that you’re right.

@CaliBuddz – I call “spending” billions of dollars giving a shit. I call “wasting” just something that governments whenever they spend anything. I’ve seen enough successful, if wasteful, government programs to know that this is just the nature of the beast. Though I still think you’re stretching the truth about how much is “wasted.”

More to the point, I call any action that moves the US a little more towards universal coverage, that moves the debate forward and extends even a little more coverage to the millions of people whose future hangs in the balance, “a good thing.”

I expect none of the campaign promises to be fulfilled… and instead a whole new raft of silliness to commence.

Healthcare Reform won’t be repealed. Since Obama has veto power and the Dems still have the Senate and not an insignificant number of House seats, you can rest assured that the Healthcare Reform package will not be repealed wholesale. That said, all budgetary process must begin in the House and so it is possible that funding for the Healthcare Reform might be blocked in some fashion.

The size of the federal government won’t shrink… when does government ever get smaller? That said, government spending has historically been better managed when the Dems are in control of Congress, the last two years notwithstanding.

If we want to stimulate the economy for real, it might be interesting to look into reducing/eliminating the tax on corporate profits from overseas. In one move, we might then add one trillion dollars to the US economy… from the private sector, not some misguided monetization of the debt which could devalue the US dollar.

Go to Disney World?

They seem kind of full of themselves and are gloating all over. This is not a game, though. When they get down to work, I hope they aren’t going to be self-righteous nay-sayers only.

What I don’t get is Obama generally set out to do generally what he said he wanted to do before he was elected. Americans wanted HCR because we don’t want people getting denied coverage for being sick, or going bankrupt for getting sick. HCR helps reduce the deficit in the future, otherwise healthcare spending in the US is forecast to reach 40% of GDP in (something like) 30 years. The general populace didn’t seem to understand this, and the Dems sucked at hammering this point home. Nonetheless, Obama said if elected he’d work on healthcare reform. So he got elected on that issue among others. He started passing it, and a bunch of lies and bs accusations of him being a Socialist and Muslim suddenly appeared from Fox News and the ultra-right wing. Death panels were mentioned, and not immediately laughed off as stupid. At first it just seemed like lunacy, but it gained traction as the lies were repeated over and over again. Before you knew it, people started believing the stuff. Suddenly a lot of people didn’t want HCR because they thought it was going to be bad (but believed this based on lies they had heard on TV).

Obama also got blamed for a bad economy, and no one suddenly remembered how the national debt cranked way up during the Bush years, the result of two wars and tax cuts. Bush signs the first bailout, Obama the second. All of a sudden, the bad economy is Obama’s fault and they are accused of fiscal irresponsibility by following most economist’s advice to do the bailout. The Dems sucked at pointing all this out, the short term memory of the American people is apparently pathetic, and now a large segment of the population actually thinks the GOP is the solution to the problems. This is madness, ignorance, and a lack of patience. If the economy heals, the GOP will act as though it was their policies fixed it. Some economist will mention the lag effect of economic policies, but won’t get much notice.

I will grant that the way the bailouts didn’t get the jobs flowing is a glaring failure of the administration, and if they had the opportunity again I’m guessing they would have worked on that more than HCR.

I’ve yet to hear a truly legitimate argument against the Obama administration since he took office besides the one above. And while I’d call the bailout inefficient, it likely staved off a depression. All the other socialist arguments, big government spending, too liberal, etc. don’t hold water. Every “debate” I’ve seen on these topics usually result in illogical fallacies, which are only sustained by tired rhetoric and attempts to preserve egos.

If this election has taught me anything, it’s that if you say something enough it becomes perceived as true, no matter how ridiculous. Also, if you just figure out what the American people would like to hear, you will win elections if you just say those things.

I’ve yet to hear the GOP (besides some of the few rational Tea Party candidates) offer up exactly where they intend to make financial cuts to reduce the debt.

Sorry for sort of a rambling rant, but in early 2009 I remember thinking how backwards this nation would be if we ever let the GOP and their social policies dictate the direction of this nation again. I figured Americans had had enough of the religious right and gov’t corruption during the Bush years, and the GOP would need to thoroughly retool the party in order to become relevant again. They have barely changed, if at all, and just said whatever they had to to get back in power. Enough people forgot recent history and accepted this.

Obama really seemed tired today. He must feel let down by those that turned on him. Another thing: are independent voters actually independent, or are most of them easily swayed? Some are probably genuine thinkers, but so many turned their backs after buying into shitty information.

Ugh.

There are reasons for people voting the way they did and reasons for not wanting Obama in office. Have you heard of Lt. Col Terry Lakin and what he says about Obama? Interesting information. Anyway time will tell the story.

The Birther movement. Jesus. That is a perfect example of the bs I’m describing. Anyone who thinks Obama is not a US citizen is a moron. The evidence has been shown, yet some refuse to believe it because they don’t want him to be a US citizen. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Just going to go ahead and say this: Terry Lakin, while obviously a productive soldier, is a moron too.

This is just one of the reasons the GOP won last night.

@cockswain could not agree more! He is a US citizen! Just more of the same from the far right.

Also @cockswain, most Republicans hated President Obama before he was ever sworn into office. They blamed this bad economy on him before he took office. They threw the man “under the bus” without a chance. The Republicans never mention the Bush bailout of the banks….when Paulson said, “the sky is falling!” The Republicans never mention that George W Bush spent more money than all the other Presidents combined. Where were the teabaggers then. Personally, it’s hypocrisy personified!

@BoBo1946 Yup, and the hypocrisy is ignored. I hate it so much.

they are gonna do nothing, say no, and not offer any specific solutions.

@BoBo1946 He spent more than all the others combined? Depends on whom you’re reading:
http://www.libertyjuice.com/2010/09/09/obama-spent-more-than-every-president-combined/

@Aster Given the time, I can provide sufficient evidence for you to, at a minimum, doubt the conclusions of that article and see it has a conservative bias.

@Dr_Dredd You know, Congress doesn’t have to legislate all of the time. This isn’t Nomic.

@BoBo1946 The Tea Party, like most social phenomena, is a phenomenon of critical mass. It takes time to build up, and requires that one extra straw to set it all off.

@cockswain Article bias only serves to distort, not remove entirely. If the article provides hard data from credible sources – or else data that can be confirmed with other sources in general- then it still has some validity.

Given the current conditions (Dems in control of the Senate and White House) I don’t see the Republicans doing too much beyond getting stuck in stalemates.

@Nullo 95? I was thinking Vista. Oh, wait… Vista was something new but not ready for prime-time and thus only half-baked.

@Aster at the time, it was true. Now, my point, no one said anything! Teabaggers etc… Double standard is it not?

Lordy the blind leading the blind. LOL

@JustmeAman loll… well, I’ve never been afraid of the truth. Sure, Obama has spent a lot of money! I’m not happy with everything he has done, but the Repubs never complained when Bush was spending all our money. Where we the Teabaggers when Bush was spending 11 trillion dollars? Anyway, I understand where you are coming from…. I’ve always believed in paying as you go…like i do. I was a Republican and voted for GHB both times….but, the Repubs lost me…for many reasons. Don’t have time to go into all of them now.

@jerv I had the good fortune to not ever have to deal with Vista.

@Nullo Well, if they don’t legislate, what the hell are we paying them to do?!

@Dr_Dredd I’m thrilled to pay them to “not legislate”. Can we send them on some of the “junkets” that used to capture the imaginations of so many journalists back in the 70s and 80s? I’d consider donating directly to the fund.

@CyanoticWasp I’d rather send ME on one of those junkets! Why pay for them to do even less work than usual?

For the simple reason that their work often causes more harm than it’s intended to cure, @Dr_Dredd. If you were the kind of doctor that our legislators are “lawmakers” then you would have alienated all of the patients that you didn’t kill outright.

I have a smashing idea: Why don’t you and I go on a junket and forget about them?

@CyanoticWasp Why, dahling, thought you’d never ask. :-)

@Dr_Dredd Oh, they’d still legislate, just… less. We could dock their pay, if that’s what you’re worried about.