What difference does it make?-more than people think
Republicans own the whole congress and they control the budget process completely. It doesn't matter that the deficit is shrinking, they will push hard to cut federal spending. They've done it in every state they've managed to take over. They are going to do it federally. Government spending is huge chunk of GDP. They know that. They want to tank the economy for the 2016 election. They've been trying since 2010 to tank the economy. That's why no jobs, jobs, jobs bill has passed. It is why they never have money for infrastructure. It is why they want Obama to sink into another middle eastern war. A terrible economy is great news for 2016 presidential candidates. The 2008 economy made McCain impossible to elect. It killed pappa Bush too. The house and senate now can work together to push on the president. About the only thing the president can do now is veto spending bills, but not passing spending bill has huge negative consequences only apparently for Obama. Think they'll worry about shutting down the government. They did it last year and how much did it hurt them. They'll gladly shut it down again and longer to cut grandma's food stamps. Why wouldn't they? Shutting down the government hurts the economy and that's what they want. The voters have already proven they'll blame Obama for it so what again is his leverage! What are the voters suddenly going to be mad at Republicans? Of course they are willing to play the veto game with the budget and shut the government down and not pass spending caps... Hell, if voter managed to wake up in 2016 they still won't lose. There are million dollar lobbyist chairs waiting for them because they'll have played the good soldier. So what do they have to lose? The Senate was a big tool to use for the Democratic party to push back on the Tea Party's mad dash to run us into the poor house. It helped keep spending limits from the draconian cuts wanted. That control is lifted. If you are like me and rely on federal dollars to do your job, your job seat just got HOT. If you need unemployment insurance, food stamps, medicare, social security or the people with them to spend money to keep your job, then your seat just got HOT. So frankly Mr. Not much has changed guy isn't really convincing me tonight. The money in my bank account, my job, my home, and my state of security just took a profound hit. Yours did too. There is no sense pretending our lives got worse tonight and the potential for much worse things to come just increased substantially.
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