GOP Prepared To Stop Government Indefinitely Even If Hillary Wins.

[TheMastersNemesis]

As long as GOP does not have full power, they will not allow the country to move forward indefinitely. They are making it clear that they will get their way one way or another. Sadly GOPPERS are not willing to compromise on anything. The ZIKA funding is the best example of what is going on.

The fact that they won't pass any funding unless they get their way means they do not care how far ZIKA spreads or how many lives are ruined, that is the price you pay for stopping their agenda. They believe in being bipartisan as long as you pass ALL of their initiatives no matter how terrible they are.

And the ZIKA virus issue is just the beginning. It is no on everything. They are proving how dangerous they are.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Another wonderful reason

To vote Democratic across the board.

We welcome all good Republicans who
are tired of their party's nonsense and
incompetence.

[Exilednight]

4. We can't flip the House. Gerrymandering has mad winning the House impossible.

If we flip the Senate we can at least get justices appointed, but legislation will be stifled.

[dawg]

10. Unlikely, but not impossible.

Gerrymandering can only take you so far. At some point, it collapses like a house of cards.

[flor-de-jasmim]

14. So often Rs go unopposed. In times of tumultuous change, all is possible.

We have to have candidates for every office.
GOTV.

[padfun]

13. On the contrary

Gerrymandering's weakness is that a large voter margin can overcome it. Since they put all Dems in one group and then make the others slightly favor Repubs, this is the chance to break it. We need to take a few more districts and now it the time. I don't think we get as big a chance as have now, not for another decade.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. They have made their seats safe with Republican voters

older white conservatives

The demographics will change, all in concentrated spots, as
a younger generation replaces them. When their kids move away, or
have modern ideas, or just don't support Trump, there is political
opportunity.

This may be the time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

23. Negativity like that made some weak Democrats give up during W's term. Look at us now.

Winning state Legislatures is important to combat gerrymandering. Every time one is won, use the opportunity to put districting into the hands of independent commissions, permanently.

Seek federal legislation, like a Voting Rights Act, to mandate independent districting.

Let's not be negative. Identify problems, generate solutions, and avoid defeatist binary thinking that says "impossible".

[Exilednight]

24. I'll take one Senator Warren over three Senators like Jim Webb any

Day of the week. Webb was a poor excuse for a Democrat. Just because they have a D in front of their name doesn't make them party loyalist.

[riversedge]

2. GOTV -and each of us must make a commitment to get some folks registered-or check on

their registration. This is so important.

[deminks]

3. IMHO, even the so-called mod GOPies will vote as a block (block as a block) when they get in.

They have been doing this for the last 16 years - why would they stop?

GOPies in any stripe are bad news.

We must give Hillary a Congress and State Legis she can work with.

[Chemisse]

5. It's a disgrace that they have gone home with the Zika issue unresolved.

This should be pointed out by Dems every day!!

[GulfCoast66]

25. If the party

Here in Florida built a campaign around this one issue it could carry us to victory. Zola is going to start hurting our tourist dependent economy over the next 3 months.

And Trump yesterday said Governor Skeelator has it controlled.

[Chemisse]

28. What I don't understand is how the CDC can issue a travel warning to a particular area,

Yet those who actually live there are ignored!

[GulfCoast66]

29. You cannot understand?

The republican party was against helping people with HIV.

[beachbum bob]

6. if democrats retake the House...they can't do squat about anything in the house

no doubt democrats will retake the senate and senate rules can be changed on the use of the filibuster which forces all legislation to have 60 votes, not 51....

republicans wont be able to obstruct in the same manner


the key is to retake congress

[greymattermom]

7. there should be a way

to keep federal funds from reaching the districts of those congress critters. No farm subsidies for you, no military bases for you. The old fashioned Republicans were about compromise, give and take. Why not now? Disney will have to close without folks willing to travel to Orlando. Florida depends on tourist taxes to keep the state afloat. The Supreme court will have to rule all of their redistricting plans unconstitutional and force redistricting.

[kentuck]

8. The Democrats need the House and Senate...

Republicans have lost by winning. The more they control the House and Senate, the more screwed up our nation becomes. Maybe someday they will open their eyes and see the problem with our government?

[cynzke]

9. THE HUMAN TOLL FROM ZIKA......

Will be terrible no doubt. But none of us will be immune from the economic toll this will wreak on the economy. The GOP is willing to let this happen. And they STILL want to do away with Obamacare at a time will the country may be swallowed up by this devastating epidemic. You think health insurance premiums are too high now. Wait til the hospitals are flooded with Zika victims. Where are the communities going to find the money it takes to control and eradicate the host?

[kairos12]

11. That is why the gerrymandered House of 2010 was diabolically brillant. With it

they can block any spending measure forever. Doesn't matter who is President.

[Cresent City Kid]

12. Obstruction is the new normal

For a very short time after Al Franken's delayed confirmation and before Ted Kennedy's passing, the Democrats had the votes to pass legislation or confirm nominees. It shouldn't take 60 senators to pass common sense funding to prevent a public health crisis, but that's where we are.

[IronLionZion]

15. These assholes are unAmerican

they desperately sabotage our president and government every chance they get. They want things to be bad for the American people so they can score political points.

And they would happily blame Zika on immigrants or minorities or poor people or something and claim the CDC is too socialist to help.

[Fast Walker 52]

16. This insane party must be expunged from power

goddamn them all.

[DFW]

17. For a bunch of so-called "anti-kommanists"

They sure are taking a lot of their cues from the Bolsheviks.

I think McConnell and Ryan would have given Kerensky as much grief as did Ulyanov.

[wildeyed]

18. They will regret this choice, but not until it is too late. n/t

[Uben]

19. So what's new? You just can't fix stupid!

The dumb bastards are so filled with hubris they can't even see that they have destroyed their party with this tactic. They deserve Donald Scump...he fits their profile....narcissistic, ignorant, self-destructing.

[heaven05]

20. the original Nazi Party was one of the cruelest

in history, it will pale to insignificance if we allow it(the american republican party)to gain power.

[NewJeffCT]

22. The ebola scare a few years ago helped Republicans

they're probably hoping the Zika scare will do similar

[jcgoldie]

26. prepared to?

Isn't that what they've been doing for the past 8 years?

[wiggs]

27. Obama is a consensus builder and not a flame thrower, so he can't say it...

....but I bet he knows first hand that the current version of republican leadership (last couple of decades) represents much of what's wrong with our country on almost every issue. They are responsible for not only harmful direct action legislatively (or inaction) but also for politically pulling the country to the right through deception, lies, fear, polarization, and hate.

Doesn't have to be this way. Didn't used to be this way. Now...it is.