Obamas agenda died on Nov. 2, 2010, when he lost the House. It won’t be any deader on Nov. 4, 2014, if he loses the Senate. But regaining the Senate would finally give the GOP the opportunity, going into 2016, to demonstrate its capacity to govern. You can’t govern the country from one house of Congress. Republicans learned that hard, yet obvious, lesson with the disastrous shutdowns of 1995 and 2013. But controlling both houses would allow the GOP to produce a compelling legislative agenda. The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often at the behest of the White House. Make it a major reform agenda. If the president signs any of it, good. If he vetoes, it will be clarifying. Who then will be the party of no? The vetoed legislation would become the framework for a 2016 GOP platform... ~ Charles Krauthammer (h/t Derek Cutlip)
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:42:57 +0000
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