The stuff of nightmares: What a republican senate would look like

[cali]

Aside from that the new republican senators would all be from the far right, the list of those taking over chairmanships is chilling:

Likely Judiciary Chair- Chuck Grassley. Not only would the President be shut down as far as appointment go, but the JC has oversight over the Presidency itself. Benghazi comes to the Senate.

Environment and Public Works: James Inhofe. What is there to say about this insane wingnut? Just that he's about as diametrically opposed to the current chair, Boxer, as is possible.

Finance: Orrin Hatch

Armed Services: McCain.

Budget: Wrap your head around this one: Jeff Sessions.

This really drives home the importance of holding on to the Senate.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Indeed it does, Cali.

Always better to choose the slow slide to perdition over the precipitous drop.

[jwirr]

2. Scary.

[Blue Owl]

3. GAH!

Hideous indeed...

[Ampersand Unicode]

4. Please tell me we're not on the threshold of 1938 again.

I was in poli-sci class this morning and the prof opened up the computer projector to Five Thirty-Eight. Nathan Silverman apparently has a stellar track record at predicting outcomes. (I'd love to hire him to predict lotto numbers for me. But if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't need the lotto.)

Anyway, the numbers at 538 are not looking good for Democrats this November, apparently. 60% in the poll want a GOP senate, while 40% want Democrats.

Is freedom over? Should those of us who don't want to live under fascism simply high-tail it to Belgium and make use of the Dignitas service? I don't want to live in a GOP-controlled country, and I don't live in any of the red states where this election actually matters. I live in MA which looks like a solid D until the last of the Kennedys dies out. I therefore can't make any impact simply by voting because MA is a foregone conclusion. And I can't just up and travel to Mississippi where chances are I'd end up like the three civil rights workers pushed into a lagoon.

We're doomed, aren't we?

[cali]

5. a general poll such as the one you cite, doesn't show much

of anything. In any case, I haven't seen a poll that reflects that wide a gap. and Silver has been narrowing the odds on republicans taking the Senate. I actually think the dems may well hold onto the Senate, though if they do, it will be a close margin.

[BlindTiresias]

10. Well

Historically, before people got it in their heads they could steadily reform things (a lie), the usual answer to injustice was to run or fight.

If you don't think you can fight, then run. Certainly no shame in it and it wouldn't be the first time populations left a bad situation they were powerless to control. Leaving this country is certainly becoming more appealing to me as I know the right wing shift in this country is permanent and will only get worse.

[MisterP]

11. nope: we have no FDR figure ...

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. They would spend the next two years running out the clock on impeachment hearings.

[riqster]

7. Kicking. Shows the need for GOTV.

We need to drag every non-Repub to the polls.

[blackspade]

8. No shit!

[Thinkingabout]

9. K & R

Another good reason Democrats has to unite and get rid of horror stories you have posted. We have been having a nightmare since the GOP took over Congress. In the forty years the DNC held the Congress we had Republican presidents but was still a functioning body to work with the president. Yes the president is important but we are seeing a do nothing congress who doesn't want anymore than destroy a Democrat president. There are lots of important issues which needs to be handled, it will not occur without a united Democrat Congress.