The president is either delusional or braindead.
White House officials Tuesday evening insisted that having Republicans in control of the House and Senate can usher in a new era of bipartisanship in Washington — despite the GOP’s promise to be a check on President Obama’s power.
With Republicans taking control of the Senate and little change of the House GOP’s makeup, the possibility of bipartisan agreement on anything beyond the most basic functions of government seems remote.BuzzFeed News
Despite Election Losses, Obama Still Sees Hope For Bipartisanship
Evan McMorris-Santoro
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Tom moving over to the GOP soap opera, what is going to be interesting to watch is the right libertarians going against the Karl Rove wing.... and some individuals (Ryan) trying to appease both.... should be a hoot ... rsp
Right. Hopefully the Dems can see the light and begin to adopt Republican policy as their own. Oh wait, that's what they've been doing. hmm.
R,
To be clear I mean Paul Ryan by my ' (Ryan)' here....
PR is going to try to live in both camps.... should lead to a lot of entertaining situations. ... rsp
Obama will attempt to work with Republicans to cut SS/Medicare and to provide the 1% with more cheap immigrant workers.
Many Republicans will balk, but assuming Democrats continue to be obedient sheep, Obama will only need a few Republican votes to pass his corporate agenda.
Tom moving over to the GOP soap opera, what is going to be interesting to watch is the right libertarians going against the Karl Rove wing.... and some individuals (Ryan) trying to appease both.... should be a hoot ... rsp"
I'm looking forward to it.
The GOP has a real problem with the coalition it has assembled. There is going to be an open battle over control of the party apparatus. It will be fun to watch and interesting to see who wins. Way to early to venture an educated guess but I think that Jeb has a good chance of coming out on top if he decides to join the fray. He may wait until the others beat each other to death with clubs.
I say bring on the Social Security/Medicare cuts. If all these old fucks want to keep voting Republican, I say let 'em eat catfood. Leaves more steak for me.
Don't overlook Scott Walker as a possible rising GOP leader.
To pass his corporate agenda, Obama does not need 100% support from the GOP. Assuming that the bulk of Democrats obediently kowtow to Obama like they usually do, Obama will then only need a few GOP votes to cut SS/Medicare and increase immigration.
PR is going to try to live in both camps.... should lead to a lot of entertaining situations
The eventual nominee is going to have to do this to have any chance of winning the election when the base has be fired up but the donors have to give liberally and independents, who are by and large moderate Republicans that left the party over its rightist lurch are the swing vote.
This is going to be quite a trick to pull off given the intense media coverage and infinite parsing of every perceived signal.
On one hand, Ted Cruz is going to be an ideological purist, but Rand Paul and Paul Ryan have both already backed away from that strategy, as has Jeb Bush. Huckabee will be the evangelical candidate. Mitt is also likely to run again representing the 1% but will face immense opposition from the ideological purists as a loser. There will be others, of course, like Bob Portman and Bobby Jindal.
I say bring on the Social Security/Medicare cuts. If all these old fucks want to keep voting Republican, I say let 'em eat catfood. Leaves more steak for me.
TPTB are not stupid enough to cut SS and Medicare for existing seniors since this is the voting block that turns out most reliably in the highest numbers. Cuts in SS and Medicare will be directed at younger voters who have already been primed for years that SS and Medicare won't be there for them.
Don't overlook Scott Walker as a possible rising GOP leader
Virtually a sure thing that Scott Walker is planning his 2016 presidential run today.
Of course Obama loves bipartisanship. He is the best Republican President since Rutherford B. Hayes.
Seriously, now Obama has the chance to weaken Social Security, which he has wanted to do all along.
Justin,
the "Rove Wing" if you will has been using SS/Meds cuts against Dems in several districts where the Dem has been overtly on the Peterson bandwagon...
While the right-libertarian crazies have been critical/hostile to Rove....
I think the "Rove Wing" has a form of understanding of fiscal that differs from the right libertarian nut-jobs... they dont have an understanding as well as yours or mine, but at some level they know they can use fiscal as a means to their ends...
I think Rove is trying to flank the Dems with Seniors on SS/Medicare and take that cohort away from solidly Dem...
He is on the team that did the "Medicare Rx Drugs" back under GWB that went over well and helped seniors obtain Rx... increased fiscal flows....
However Rove Wing faces overt hostility from the right libertarian/tea party nut jobs...
I will monitor and post occasionally "from the front"... ;)
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