Now, the GOP can't just blame the Dems - they have to practice governance...

[backscatter712]

Which is something they utterly suck at.

Now that they've got the House, they can no longer blame the country's woes on the incumbents. As of last night, they are now the incumbents.

So if they think they can score brownie points with the public by cutting taxes for the rich, gutting government, holding impeachment hearings and trying to repeal Social Security while regular folks continue to struggle, they're going to be in for a huge shock in 2012.

[lutefisk]

1. They still have the Senate and the Executive Branch to blame

Should work out very well for them.

[backscatter712]

2. The difference was that before last night, we couldn't touch them.

They'd already been driven out of power, so what more could we do to them?

Now, they've got the House, so they too are vulnerable. They can't just say the Dems did it. If the country continues to founder, they will also get blamed.

If they want to do nothing but impeachment hearings, investigations, budget chicken and attempts to repeal health care reform, they'll find that the public that turned for them will turn against them just as fast.

[DrToast]

3. I wish it worked that

But the party that holds the Presidency usually takes the hit during tough times.

[Doctor_J]

4. NO they don't

They made a complete mess of the country for 6 years, and are trending more and more toward fascism, yet they won a landslide last night. What makes you think they have to do something?

[Bitwit1234]

5. Well holding a news conference the big turd Bonehead

sat there with the little turd Cantor and said...they are not going to create jobs, they are not going to stop jobs from going overseas nor are the going to start repairing our crumbling infrastructure. What they are going to do is repeal and change all the bills and laws that Obama with the help of the Democrats have passed during the past two years. They are going to repeal the Health Care Law and the law that does some reigning of wall street. This because the people of America have spoken and want him to do this, to stop Obama's agenda.

So the stupid craps all across America that voted for these republicans to PAY OBAMA BACK FOR BEING BLACK AND A DEMOCRAT aren't going to get the jobs they want, they aren't going to have wall street not create another meltdown, they are going to have the one good thing that has happened to this country torn up and done away with. HEALTH CARE FOR THE PEOPLE. No more unemployment benefits, they will try to privatize social security, medicare and do away with medicaid all together. BUT BUT BUT they are going to get tax cuts for big business and the rich. And of course for themselves. And since they are mostly all unemployed what in the hell good are tax cuts.

I wish these things would only effect the dumb asses that voted for them, but the sad thing is a lot of Americans who needed jobs are going to have any life line they had taken away. We are going to have crowds of homeless families roaming the country. BUT they will get tax cuts and of course have their health insurance taken away.

How is that for the way the republicans are going to try to run the country. And I will tell you right now listening to Obama and knowing the Democrats, they aren't going to do a damn thing to stop them.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Except that they're not going to do any of that.

They may try, but they won't succeed. They don't hold the Senate, and will have to get whatever they pass past them. And, the President has veto power. They can pontificate all they want, but it ain't gonna happen.

[backscatter712]

7. And my point - if that's their agenda, the people are still out of work & losing their homes.

The people are not going to have much patience with investigation/impeachment circuses, or grandstanding on health care reform repeals that get blocked by the Senate or vetoed, and they're certainly not going to have patience with a House that plays budget chicken and tries shutting down the government.

The people are angry and fickle, and they can very easily turn on the GOP just as they turned on the Dems.

[rasputin1952]

8. That's a very scary thought...

whenever they do, the mess things up so badly it takes nearly a generation to bring some form of rectification.