Cementing further the notion that under Obama Democrats and the media/press catamites that serve them are devolving into a proto-fascist party that looks fondly with warm eyes to the day when an absolutist liberal oligarchy will rule the land, Harry Reid does away with Senate filibuster rules. Pernicious acts like this completely undermine the empirically driven skepticism and distrust of power betokened by phrase 'checks and balances' that was the principle informing everything the Founding Fathers believed in - a democracy that is simply about the rule of the majority is not a democracy - the whole point of democracy is for opposing forces to debate with each other, contend for influence in the open marketplace of ideas and thereby reach a workable consensus, a reasonable compromise that preserves freedoms and retards abuse of power - undoing the filibuster rules was a pernicious thing when the GOP tried it in 2005 but is much more so an evil endeavor under Obama - if the GOP had gotten away with it in 2005 they still would have been constrained and constantly countered by a hostile media and press - Obama will not be restricted by such limitations and that is why the impulse towards autocracy under a misguided ideologue like him is a much, much more frightening and dangerous thing.
If Republicans cannot gain control of the Senate in 2014 and thereby hopefully mitigate the damage being done by this administration, what's this country going to look like come 2016? Just how deep will the shit be? Will the country even be governable? If the person who takes over in 2016 is not a truly gifted leader who understands not just that Obama was an awful president but also that a reactionary, ideologically driven counter punch to that awfulness that merely feeds the flames of hyper partisanship will not be helpful in the long term no matter how good it may fleetingly feel [which means pretty much that the next president cannot be both a liberal and well suited to undo the damage done], then I gotta believe things could get pretty god damn ugly out there.
If the GOP is smart they start running national ads right away that make the point: the last time the Obamaphiles had absolute control they burdened the country with a trillion dollar stimulus that didn't stimulate and the clusterfuck that is Obamacare - now they're cynically scheming for that kind of control again - fear this intemperance and the harm it can do.
If Republicans cannot gain control of the Senate in 2014 and thereby hopefully mitigate the damage being done by this administration, what's this country going to look like come 2016? Just how deep will the shit be? Will the country even be governable? If the person who takes over in 2016 is not a truly gifted leader who understands not just that Obama was an awful president but also that a reactionary, ideologically driven counter punch to that awfulness that merely feeds the flames of hyper partisanship will not be helpful in the long term no matter how good it may fleetingly feel [which means pretty much that the next president cannot be both a liberal and well suited to undo the damage done], then I gotta believe things could get pretty god damn ugly out there.
If the GOP is smart they start running national ads right away that make the point: the last time the Obamaphiles had absolute control they burdened the country with a trillion dollar stimulus that didn't stimulate and the clusterfuck that is Obamacare - now they're cynically scheming for that kind of control again - fear this intemperance and the harm it can do.
