Reply #4: It'll be nice but won't mean squat IF we lose our majorities in either chamber [View All]

[Proud Liberal Dem]

leaving Boehner as Speaker of the House and/or McConnell as leader of the Senate. We'll just see how much good liberal/progressive legislation gets through with either/both of them in charge of Congress from 2011-2013. :eyes:

Some people think that President Obama and the Democrats compromise too much with the Republicans? Well, he will undoubtedly have to compromise with the GOP (not the difficult but more tolerable "Blue Dogs") EVEN MORE to get anything through and we will be lucky if the Republicans are unable to reverse any progress Obama and the Democrats have made since 2009.

As far as the assignation of "blame" for a presumably poor outcome in November, I'm not sure that we'll have the luxury of time to sit around and play that "game" if the Republicans take over one or both Houses of Congress. Instead, what we will need to be doing is getting ready to fight the GOP and the inevitable investigations of President Obama and his administration that Issa will undoubtedly be busy preparing for, as well as the flood of anti-Democratic/anti-progressive legislation that will almost certainly be heading our way from Boehner, McConnell, et. al.

Unfortunately, I suspect that we probably WILL be spending most of our time blaming and attacking each other for the outcome of the election instead- much to our detriment. :-(