On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > I was thinking it signalled the population's sentiments and an indicator > for 2016 election period. >
A ton of that depends on how the next 12-18 months plays out. I'm going to put my ideologue hat aside for a moment and talk pure DC politics. Truth be told, if the GOP wants to maintain control they need to not go after the button issues, rather McConnell needs to be the exact opposite of Harry Reid. As Majority Leader, Reid controlled the items that came to the floor of the Senate. There were a number of items in your list that could have been debated, amended and voted on that Reid did not bring to the floor. >From a political perspective it would actually be better for the GOP to run the Congress as openly and transparently as possible. Let there be debates and let the American people see where their elected officials actually stand on all of the issues. It's funny, Viv, you said that the DNC needs to, "start playing the GOP game." As Jerry said, national elections are like a pendulum. I agree to a large degree, look back over time and you'll see the shifting. I also disagree because I don't think that the American public has been convinced that the GOP will need to be replaced then. Presidential year elections have larger voter turn-out and even more money involved. Ideologue that I am (and I can afford to be, I'm *not* an elected official nor am I a part of any party organization), my hope is that both sides field fresh candidates. I'm expecting to be disappointed in that but I can hope. We're going to see the DNC decry anything that the GOP has done, the GOP go after administrative bogey-men and at least 17.5% of the candidates will have a video where there sleeves are rolled up and they are holding their suit coat over their shoulder. Until Later! C. Hatton Humphrey http://www.eastcoastconservative.com Every cloud does have a silver lining. Sometimes you just have to do some smelting to find it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372870 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
