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"The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." [said Mitch McConnell]
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"This is not a time for compromise, and I can tell you that we will not compromise on our principles," Boehner said during an appearance on
conservative Sean Hannity's radio show.
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But, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest caucus in the House Democratic Caucus at over 80 members, emerged virtually unscathed,
losing only three members.
By constrast, the conservative Blue Dog Democratic caucus was more than sliced in half from 54 members to only 26. Further, of the 34 conservative
Dems who voted against Obama's Healthcare Reform, a mere 12 won re-election.
Mitch McConnell says the most important agenda of the Republicans is to stop Obama from winning re-election at all costs. What about the jobs Mr.
McConnell, what happened to your little catch phrase you used for two years, “Where are the jobs?”
He could have chosen a long list of things as top priority: Creating jobs, slashing the deficit, bring back the economy, transparency; but no he said
stopping Obama is agenda number 1!
How about John of Orange? Was he willing to extend an olive branch, apparently if that means Obama will side with everything he says than the answer
is yes. Apparently compromise is not what he intends to do in the next Congress.
This election was a referendum on Obama and on Congress, Americans are angry because when Democrats had all 3 chambers by a large margin they
compromised on everything and delivered watered down half-ass legislation. Republicans served their base and voted no on everything while Democrats
did nothing for their base.
Democrats were far too scared to stand up to the minority and tell them what was going to happen and how it was going to happen. They let the minority
scare them into submission. This is what they get. No one wants a gridlocked Congress, either one party has a lot of power and passes legislation or
the two parties work together to pass legislation, the latter requires compromise which Boehner made clear he is not going to do.
So what about the new Democratic Party left after this election? Well 3 of the 80 Progressive Democrats lost their seats while 28 of the 54 Blue Dogs
lost their seats. The 34 Democrats who voted against ObamaCare are now left with just 12 members. Looks like it wasn’t Americans saying hell no to
Liberals and Progressives but rather hell no to the Democrats who sided with the Republicans, they were virtually annihilated on Tuesday.
Now we have Obama talking about extending the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and repealing some of ObamaCare. Did he not get the message when
the Conservative wing of his party was destroyed? Americans now want someone who can be bipartisan but this goes for both sides. Looks like Obama is
conceding everything and the Republicans are dictating everything.
If Obama decides to go the way of Bill Clinton and be Mr. Republican then he can’t expect his party to vote with him.
Think about this: 193 Democrats left in the House, 77 Democrats are Progressives, 26 Democrats are Blue Dogs. I wonder which wing of the party will
have the most say in the Democratic Party in the House. The Democrats who lost the Senate on Tuesday night, they were Conservative Democrats! The
Democrats in the Senate now, they are going to be the Liberals. Good luck getting Liberals to repeal their beloved programs they enacted.
Privatize Social Security? Nope. Private Medicare/Medicaid? Nope. Extend Bush tax cuts? Probably not. Look out Obama, you are on a crash course with
your own party if you think you can be mister compromise. 51% of Democrats say you deserve a primary challenge in 2012, if you think that number is
high now, you better not blink or it might just say 80%.
You are now part of a political party which has just lost most of its Conservative wing, you are now left with the Progressives and they are already
saying how compromise on many issues is strictly off the table. They won’t ring up a $700 Billion dollar deficit to extend tax cuts on the rich, so
don’t count on their vote. What do you do Obama when your opinions are more aligned with the GOP? Don’t expect Democrats to rush to your side.
Be Bipartisan, we as Americans want to see our parties work together. But if you think conceding to the GOP will do anything good for America, you
will be faced with a tsunami of Liberals aimed right at you and it will be a bloody punch.