What would we ba talking about today had the Coup not been successful? Curing cancer?

[LaydeeBug]

college for our children? Medicare expansion?

For posterity's sake, let's consider what it would have been like so we can know what to do to get it back.

[dawg]

1. Lockstep Republican opposition and how the President's budget would be "dead on arrival".

Also, the looming crisis over raising the debt ceiling.

[LaydeeBug]

2. true. but I am not sure there wasn't down ballot chicanery

and I'll get called every kind of asshole for saying it, but I *really* think something was afoot.

[dawg]

3. I can't rule it out. But even the polls predicted the Republicans would hold both houses of Congress

So it's at least plausible that the people actually voted for this.

[chimpymustgo]

4. Oh, I do too. Let's look at the timeline between Jason Chaffetz suddenly endorsing Trump on 10/26

Ghouliani and Lara Trump (Erik's wife) warning of October surprise on Fox and Friends (separately, but gleefully).

What happened in Fla? Early voting results had given Clinton an "unsurmountable" lead. At 8:30 pm, election results - stopped coming in. Then a tide turned toward Don the Con. Don't know what happened in PA, Mich, Wisc - even NC - but McCrory would NOT give up!

We need a real audit of the voting. We need a real voting system that can be tracked.

And let's not forget Jill Stein, sitting at the table with Putin and Mike Flynn.

They were hitting us every which way from Sunday. We had our knives all ready, as they dropped their bombs.

[SticksnStones]

5. Let's not kid ourselves

Had the electoral coup not happened they'd still be talking about "her damn emails"

And we'd have trouble getting press coverage of anything else