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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEven Though The GOP Lost In 2012, They Are Still Winning Because Their Agenda Is Still Moving Ahead.
Whether you like it or not the GOP is still able to stop just about everything. And they largely got their way on the domestic cuts which will continue to go forward and damage the country for years. And when you look at what is happening in the GOP controlled states women are losing, workers are losing, unions are losing, teachers are losing, public employees are losing, minorities are losing, and America is losing because the GOP is able to put forward and pass extreme legislation. By the time the courts address the issues many policies will continue to be in force even for years.
And even now the GOP doubles down on the Ryan budget. And the Dem politicians continue cringe in a corner afraid to confront them mano y mano. And as long was things are at a standstill, the situation continues to deteriorate.
Until we go face to face with them with political brass knuckles and somehow find a way to shock and terrorize them the country is finished. We are facing a public enemy every bit as dangerous as the terrorists. We don't need to worry about foreign terrorists when we have the GOP.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)for what he has done to Wisconsin. He is a little dictator who is a criminally insane.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)they set a time bomb after the 06 election.... when the retook the house in 10, they insured that we could do nothing to stop it..
MyshkinCommaPrince
(611 posts)They can keep breaking things just by doing nothing. We, on the other hand, need their cooperation in order to build things. We are at a disadvantage. They have it comparatively easy.
And that definitely is infuriating.
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Cedric the Clam
(35 posts)The GOP is governing from the minority.
I think, however, that even if Democrats had a supermajority in the House, Senate, and Executive Branch that things would not change much. The GOP can govern from the minority because it is specifically allowed to by the Democratic Party, with Harry Reid being one of the cheif enablers.
We Democrats need not only to elect more Demcracts, but to do some cleaing in our own house. We need more like Elizabeth Warren, Alan Grayson, and Bernie Sanders.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)Presumably, that gives them carte' blanche to act like bullies.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)It's the agenda of the oligarchs that 100% own the GOP and 95% own the Democrats. But go ahead, pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.