As you all know, today was Election Day here in the USA, the midterm elections for Congress. As of this writing it seems that the Republicans have gained control of the Senate, and substantially increased their majority in the House of Representatives.
A decade ago I might have found the news exhilarating, but not this time. It's more like: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
I'll venture a few predictions for the next two years under an all-Republican Congress:
1. The first thing the new Republican majority in the Senate will do when they are seated in January will be to "reach across the aisle."
2. For the next two years, anything bad that happens in the United States will be blamed on the Republicans in Congress.
3. President Obama -- or rather, the Marxists on his staff who direct his actions -- will, in classic Cloward-Piven fashion, make sure that plenty of bad things happen as soon as the new Congress convenes.
4. The Republican majority in the Senate will gladly assist in the passage of some form of "amnesty".
5. The Republican-controlled Congress will not repeal ObamaCare.
#2
If the Republicans are smart they will introduce popular laws that Obama will be forced to veto (saying they were imperfect or something but making it easy to say Democrats oppose this and that when the next election rolls around). if he doesn't veto then we have some good laws which is what the Congress is supposed to do.
Oh, and say all you want about hands across the aisle and cooperating to help some Dems join up if they want but really, who care what they think. They had the country by the balls for six years and screwed up over and over.
#6
Republican elites can't get past their memory of the collegiality of Tip O'Neil and Pat Moynihan.
Wishful thinking is hard to move on from. What the 'pubs need to do is push hard on corruption, all the ties between the DC crowd and the Wall Street plutocrats, the revolving door which spins for this regime.
#7
Republicans I am sure want to pull the country our of all the messes the previous regime has caused. To do this while subject to veto from the president and the real prospect of the president and federal organizations of all kinds actinh unconstitutionally on their own against the will of congress, is an extremely difficult task.
You should be suggesting ideas for helping get useful things done, rather than starting immediately to blame the republicans for not succeeding. You sound like a disgruntled Democrat, sneering at the opposition rather than as someone interested in working for the future of us all. Get off your behind and start helping.
In Nigeria and Iraq, Muslim armies are selling women as slaves. Iran hanged a woman for fighting off a rapist. ISIS was more direct about it and beheaded a woman who resisted one of its fighters.
But we don't have to travel to the Middle East to see real horrors. The sex grooming scandal in the UK involved the rape of thousands of girls. The rapists were Muslim men so instead of talking about it, the UK's feminists bought $75 shirts reading, "This is what a feminist looks like" which were actually being made by Third World women living sixteen to a room. This was what a feminist looked like and it wasn't a pretty picture.
The same willful unseriousness saw Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a survivor of genital mutilation and an informed critic of Muslim misogyny, booted from Brandeis by self-proclaimed feminists. Meanwhile the major feminist cause at the moment is Gamergate, a controversy over video games which can be traced back to a female game developer who slept with a video game reviewer. Professional feminists have spent more time and energy denouncing video games than the sale and rape of girls in Nigeria and Iraq.
That is what feminism looks like and there is something seriously wrong with that.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
