Worst case scenario: Rethugs regain power in 2012...

[mfcorey1]

health care reform overturned

troops made to stay additional time in foreign wars

start a new war

overturn rights for the LGBT community

give more tax breaks to the wealthy

make it mandatory for women to have a child by the age of 21 or face jail

eliminate all entitlement programs

wipe out social security, medicare and medicaid

launch a major war on immigrants, legal and illegal

close all mosque in the country

pay George Bush to be a consultant to the White House

find a way to prosecute Obama for foolishness and imprison him

deny Obama a Presidential Library

Start McCArthy like hearings to match the ones they already have

Declare the nation a Christian nation and forbid any other religious group from legitimacy in this country

Close the Department of Education

Forbid any research on climate change

restrict stem cell research

eliminate unions across America

Institute strict voting laws that would make sure that minorities would have little to no access to the ballot

Eliminate Pell grants and any government funding of higher education

Set up their own system of checks and balances for how government will operate

refuse assistance to impoverished foreign nations

Begin Armageddon!!!!!

[Tx4obama]

1. I rec'd your OP and it is still at zero ;(

Also, IF the republicans were to retake the Oval Office, a Republican president would appoint right-wing judges to the Supreme Court and Federal Courts!

We must do everything in our power to make sure that we have a Democratic president in the White House and that we retain control of the Senate!!!

[mfcorey1]

4. That's okay. Like Wasserman Schultz said, "The truth hurts." I take every unrec as a sign that the

rethugs are offended. Good for them.

[PuffedMica]

12. I gave it a REC and got it all the way up to +1

[Safetykitten]

2. And guess what? It's a certainty now. A republican will win in 2012.

[mfcorey1]

3. No, I think the American people are smarter than that. nt

[Tx4obama]

5. It is NOT a certainty that a republicans will win, because Obama WILL win RE-election.

I think the question is: How many Senate seats and House seats will the Democrats pick up in 2012 now that the majority of Amerians know that the republicans are trying to destroy America as we know it?

[XanaDUer]

13. It's NOT a certainty

not at all.

[polmaven]

17. If the Democrats

stay home and stomp our feet, yes - you're correct.

[alcibiades_mystery]

21. Yes, and Obama was to lose Pennsylvania in 2008

:rofl:

I'm bookmarking this thread for future laughter.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

27. President Obama will win handily. I'm afraid of losing the Senate!

We are royally fucked, then.

Hatred/racism directed towards this president will ensure Republican victories if we don't stop them. We need to vote! When we show up, we win!!

[yurbud]

6. if Republicans are trying so hard to do all these horrible things, why is Obama trying so hard

to agree with them?

It would make more sense to work around them in every way possible, use the bully pulpit to beat them to a pulp, and when the Senate had a chance to change the filibuster rule, he should have kicked Democrats asses to do it.

Instead, Obama only seems to treat the GOP like an opponent during campaign season, then he goes back to ignoring the leaders and ideas of his own party and pleading with the GOP to let him implement theirs.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. I know a great way to keep the Republicans from doing that.

WE DO IT FIRST!!!!!

[Armstead]

8. Regain Power? Have they ever lost it?

For the minority party, the still have the ability to drive the agenda.

[Tx4obama]

9. Only because we dems do not have 60 votes in the Senate in order to override the GOP obstruction n/t

[hobbit709]

14. Funny how the Rs never needed 60 votes when they were in charge.

51 worked just fine for them.

[alcibiades_mystery]

20. They got the Dems to vote with them

You might not remember the endless "up-or-down" vote mantra played by the media, and the endless charges of "obstructionism," but they actually did happen. The Dems were cowed into letting particular votes through, including the vote on the Bush tax cuts, which could have been easily filibustered in a 50-50 Senate, but was not.

[hobbit709]

22. That's the problem.

They won't even take a stand for the core principles of the party any more.

[progressoid]

23. +1

[Armstead]

29. They don't even need it in the "minority" as their power since 2008 has proven

The Republicans were on the ropes, unpopular and in the total moinority after the 2008u electioin.

Funny how over the past two years they have still been driving the agenda and message.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Maybe the problem was winning 2008

instead of 2012 as a first. If the "others" had won 2008 they'd have been left holding the bag on their own misdeeds rather than President Obama.

[Tx4obama]

11. That could possibly be true, BUT....

thank God that Obama won in 2008 and not McCain/Palin.
Four years of McCain/Palin, in my opinion would have been disastrous for the USA, and left even more of a mess for the democrats to fix in the future.

[Cosmocat]

15. They OWN 2000-2006 ...

the worst six years in modern history in this planet, and the moment BO was elected, before he even took office, the "liberal media" started piling the responsibility on BO.

Now - the same crape the Rs did to pretty much create the problems we face is the solution to the problems we face.

Up is down and down is up, the Ds will get blamed for the problems and the sainted Rs the simple, american answers to the problems regardless of who is in charge.

[polmaven]

19. If Republicans

had won in 2008, I'm not at all sure we would be having elections in 2012.

[DCBob]

16. Excellent summary of what a right-wing America will look like.

Scary but could happen.. especially if Democrats continue to bash each other.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. It will make Scott Walker's destruction of Wisconsin seem relatively minor

Unfortunately, it seems to be the goal and desire of far too many so-called progressives.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

24. Wait, there's more...

Continue assault on reproductive rights
Abolish the EPA, Depts. of Education and Energy
Privatize schools, stripping more public dollars from public schools, institue a voucher system
Appoint/elect more wingnut judges to lower courts
Appoint wingnut justices to the SCOTUS
Roll back all consumer protection efforts
Abolish any Wall Street Reforms
Allow for more speculation in the housing and energy markets
Abolish and/or drastically reduce economic regulations
Continue and increase unfair trade agreements, sending jobs overseas
Abolish net neutrality
Legitimize torture and continue its practice
Redistrict along intense party lines to reduce majority-minority representation
Allow for more tax havens and loopholes for the wealthy AND reduce marginal tax rate
Abolish any remnant of FDR/LBJ safety net
Abolish affirmative action (yes, that includes affirmative action for white women, too!)
Abolish Title IX and all sex discrimination laws, restore "unequal pay"
Reduce protections for women who have been raped and/or abused
Continue assault on civil rights laws, restrict or abolish the 14th Amendment
Continue assault on history and the systematic "dumbing down" of the American people by rewriting textbooks, not requiring basic Civics classes, and having no standards in the Corporate Media (further deregulate the FCC)

[WingDinger]

25. They only allowed us a pres, cuz they knew it would be a tar and feathering.

[WinkyDink]

26. Mixing the logical with the completely absurd ("a child by 21") undermines the entire post.

[mfcorey1]

28. Who would have thought that they would try to enact legislation in some states where someone is now

in danger of going to jail because she had a miscarriage? There is no limit to their reach for power. Beware!