How will the GOP govern?

[UCmeNdc]

What is their agenda? I have no idea what they plan to do besides to block anything President Obama supports.

Should we not ask them what they plan to do with their new position of power?

Should they not be forced to state their vision clearly?

[ladjf]

1. They will stumble forward, promoting their idiocracy, smug and drunk with their sense

of supremacy. They represent and entire movement that displays advanced symptoms of narcissism.

[Cosmocat]

3. I suspect that they will toy with the president

This is not a knock on BHO, who I like a good bit.

But, he is in an impossible situation.

They are going to put him in a LOT of no win situations, and with a cowed media will negatively frame him no matter what he does.

They also are going to even more so put him in positions to fail, and as noted, point to things that go wrong as his fecklessness.

They are going to try to set up, one way or another, their 2016 candidate by creating the proper frame against BHO - incompetence, hubris or something along those lines.

He is such a good man, and past his first two years could have done so much good. But given 1) a gutless and heartless democratic party 2) a deranged and hateful republican party 3) a bought and paid for media 4) The simplemindedness of this country, we have lost four years, are going to have two years of complete nothingness IF WE ARE LUCKY and short of Hillary Clinton having the same kind of magic Barrack Obama had six years ago, are on the verge of a VERY, VERY, VERY bad turn for this country.

[RBInMaine]

5. You are dooming and glooming WAY too much. Snap out of it. Here is what COULD happen:

The R's go hard right, Obama puts on some LOUD BALLS (which have been sorely lacking) and uses his great oratory skills to show how WRONG the R's SHIT is, and spins it back around hard on them. It is about GETTING LOUD, GETTING CLEAR, and GETTING AGGRESSIVE ! In this last election it wasn't just about Dems running from Obama. Obama RUNS FROM HIMSELF. Where has HE been touting HIS OWN accomplishments? There is fault to go around here.

I like him and have deep respect for him. But Americans want LEADERSHIP ! Bold and STRONG leadership !

Dems need to get STRONG and LOUD and CLEAR. Weakness is a KILLER. IF they do that, things can be turned around quickly. Obama and Dems need to get out to the people with a clear and consistent message and GET LOUD about how bad the R's are, how WRONG they are, and, moreso, WHAT DEMS ARE GOING TO SPECIFICALLY DO TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER. That means JOBS JOBS JOBS and how DEMS want to create them.

[kairos12]

2. They will run the government in a deliberately incompetent fashion, blame the Prez, and say the

only solution is to privatize everything from dog catcher to the people running the nuclear missile silos. Hello Halliburton.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Kinder gentler

Aren't words that describe them.

Rather republicans are like a jackboot on the throat of good American people.
They will do nothing for us except take take take.