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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Biden is inagurated in January of 2021, how long will it be until the GOP leadership
speaks about the crucial need to do something about the enormous deficit?
And, how much of the US corporate media will join in that chorus and demand of Biden, and the Democrats who control the Senate and the House, that the deficit simply must be dealt with?
Every time that the GOP is in charge, between tax cuts for the rich and unnecessary and unfunded wars, the deficit and the debt are enormously high, yet the GOP and the US media behave as if the GOP is a functioning, competent Party that specializes in fiscal responsibility.
DFW
(54,057 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Estimates in milliseconds are allowed.
DFW
(54,057 posts)I'll take a few of those. Single digits will do, as the statements will have been prepared long before the polls close on election day.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And with luck, many will be lame ducks.
DFW
(54,057 posts)Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Maine, Kentucky, Iowa and Georgia come to mind, though we probably won't win them all. For us, Alabama looks bad, and they will pour money into Michigan and New Hampshire, hoping for one of those "surprise upsets" their voting machines always seem to produce for them (and never for us). Luckily, Trump is doing his level best to drag his Republican friends (if he still has any by November) down with him. Here's hoping he keeps it up.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)DFW
(54,057 posts)They always seem to occur in states where electronic voting machines are used heavily, and they NEVER seem to go our way.
Pure coincidence, of course, a Republican told me so...........
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Caliman73
(11,694 posts)The minute a Democratic President is elected, the GOP will start to make noise about spending and "the future of our children" GUARANTEED. They will start trying to frame it as soon as the results are announced.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And the US corporate media generally accepts this at face value.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Walleye
(30,729 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Walleye
(30,729 posts)I still remember the cheers from the crowd when the helicopter took Bush out of the White House
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And Trump makes Bush Jr. seem intelligent and semi-competent.
Walleye
(30,729 posts)Like the clubhouse of a team that just won the World Series
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)Massacre Mitch has already floated a trial balloon with his statements about blue state bankruptcy.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)tritsofme
(17,325 posts)They will no doubt try to sabotage Biden just as they did Obama.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He is worse than Trump, in my view.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)All repukes and the media will be calling out he needs to reach across the aisle, work together with Repukes. Time to put the Country back together. The media will be all over it, "who should he appoint to his cabinet from across the aisle.
The proper response should be, shut the fuck up, you (media and repukes) stayed silent while the Orange ShitStain ripped apart the Country, he tweeted obnoxious shit almost daily, and you said fucking nothing. Sit down and shut up you anti American fucking tool.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The same thing was said when Obama won, about the necessity of reaching out, and compromising.
Skittles
(152,967 posts)they'll also be all PRO-LIFE again and blame Biden for any coronavirus deaths
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)or pro-birth?
Skittles
(152,967 posts)they're just anti-women
sheshe2
(83,355 posts)I believe by 01/2021 we will have such an overwhelming number of dead Americans, lying in mass graves, in refrigerator trucks. or just left rotting in a uhaul outside a funeral home ( read that tonight) that the economy will NOT BE THE CENTRAL ISSUE.
I think this whole thing is no longer under GOP control. The dead have won the day and the GOP may go rot in hell. They did this and they all have American blood on their hands.
I will never forgive one of them for this.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The GOP made a person like Trump inevitable. With their anti-science, anti-reality base, and their open racism, Trump was, and is, their ideal candidate.
But he is so incompetent that no one can fix that.
Bettie
(15,998 posts)because Moscow Mitch has to clear his throat before speaking.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)and fuck the deficit.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Deficit reduction at the expense of the bottom 90% will be the GOP plan.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)The Rethugs have not a shred of integrity and see the world only one way.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The GOP can have their hearings at Mar-a-Lago.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)budkin
(6,691 posts)Or earlier.
ooky
(8,889 posts)safeinOhio
(32,532 posts)help grant them their wish. Not that theyd be happy.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,764 posts)Over what, who knows? I'm sure they'll make up something between now and then. But in their simplistic way of thinking, their one and only priority will be to get revenge for impeaching Trump, so they're going to do everything they can to impeach Biden. If they were still in the majority, those Articles of Impeachment would be filed the day after the inauguration (just like they would have done had Hillary actually taken office).