alice wrote above:
[[ I tried to warn everybody about McConnell. ]]
It's now almost two months since the "new Republican majority" assumed office, and they've led the way from one defeat to another to the next.
Unless something happens to change this progression 180 degrees in the next 3-4 months or so, I'm going on record today to predict a BIG Republican loss in election year 2016.
The American people are simply going to turn away from the Republicans -- who they thought would put a brake on the Obammunists -- with a "what's the use?" shrug of the shoulders.
Even a strong Republican presidential candidate in 2016 (and I think Scott Walker might be the strongest) may not be enough.
Voters will mutter "we gave you the House, and we voted you into the majority in the Senate, and you STILL didn't make a stand. Why should we bother giving you the presidency as a reward?"
If the Republican party loses the presidency in 2016, it may be quite some time before they win it again, if ever.
But unless there's a reversal of fortune in the Congress, and unless the Republicans there begin acting as a majority and using every reserve of the powers they may yet retain against an out-of-control presidency, they don't have a chance in '16...
Hopefully, I'll be proven wrong.
But I think not....