Worst Case Scenario

[demwing]

We may lose the House. In fact, we will likely lose the House.

But if we do, if the House does fall, what's the worst we can foresee?

Well, the Tea-baggies will rant and rave, and crow like a rooster. They'll hold endless impeachment hearings, get nothing done, and the economy will stagger along for another two years.

But barring economic collapse, a rightwing mini resurgence is not really a bad thing. All the recent polls tell us that the Dems will keep control of the Senate - and nothing that gets started in the House will ever get past the Senate. Never fear! The Senate is our fire wall, and this fire wall is all we need, should all political shit hit every American fan.

"Demwing, you're high" I hear you scoff.

HA. High like a kite, but never you mind that, because I'm running on all 4 cylinders. Follow me here - if, after the new House completes its 2 year term, the economy has not been dealt with, if the focus has been on birther fantasies of Kenyan boogey-man nightmares, and the right spends its energy scaring the hell out of the Senior Citizenry with failed attempts to end Medicare and Social Security, and further alienates the Latino vote with its tar and feather approach to immigration issues, then at the end of two years, we'll witness an amazing site.

President Obama will be up for re-election. Dem enthusiasm will be up (as it always is in a Presidential election cycle) and amplified by the two years of Insanity that the Tea Party brought to our doors.

As a country, we may have a short attention span. We may have forgotten that the Republicans put us in the mess we're in. But two years from now, we will not have forgotten. The backlash against the right will be furious. Did you think our 60 seats in the Senate were impressive? Let’s look two years down the road, and shoot for a 75 seat majority. We CAN do that.

Let's look two years down the road and look at a 100 seat majority in the house. Easy as pie.

Let's look two years down the road, and realize that when we get there, and look BACK at the two years that just passed, we will be looking back at the last two years of the Republicans as a viable national party in America. It will be an historical moment. We can be creating that moment right now!

Of course, this could all fail to happen. What's the next worst case scenario?

The worst that could happen is that we ALL vote, vote early, and vote Blue. We could still retain control this year, aven though we'll not likely see huge super-majorities in 2012.

I think I can live with that...

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. The Trump Card... MSM.

Yeah, but poor little ol' lonely TeaBaggers.. couldn't get ANYTHING done because of those meanie Democrats!

So 2012.... MORE sour tea?

I really don't want to be a soothsayer in TWO YEARS from now....

[demwing]

2. But it's only the worst case scenrio.

We could fuck it all up by winning this year.

Al we have to do is get out the damn vote :D

[RC]

3. You are forgetting the corporations that have bought our government.

Just because the Senate can't get anything done now, does not mean that the Senate will not be T-bagger friendly if they win the House.
Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.

[demwing]

5. It's not what I wish for

Its a worst case scenario.

I even titled the thread "Worst Case Scenario"

you know what...never mind...

[Vinca]

4. Other than subpoena power in the House, it really doesn't matter

all that much because all legislation goes to the Senate to die. If Dems have a majority, Reps filibuster. If Reps have a majority, Dems filibuster. It's like a Seinfeld episode - all about doing nothing.

[Clio the Leo]

6. Yeah, aside from the whole impeachment aspect, I think it will be..

... fun ... not in that I enjoy seeing NO progressive legislation coming down the pike ... but I'll look forward seeing how the President handles a new challenge .... and really enjoy the impending battle that awaits the two halves of the GOP party (they simply dont do infighting as well as we do lol.)

I'm a process wonk ... and bit too fatally optimistic.

[karynnj]

7. That analysis would be truer if we were Republicans and wanted nothing passed

People here have asked why we are not as good as stopping everything as the Republicans are. This ignores that while many Republicans, especially the tea party, want the government to do as little as possible, we want the government to function.

Without budgets being approved or agreements to continue spending at current level passing, programs will stop. In 1995, the Republicans did stop the federal government for a period of time. The economy is incredibly weaker now. Could that send the economy back into a tailspin? In 1995, people blamed the Republicans, but the media has changed enormously since 1996.

[DCBob]

8. Its possible the Senate and POTUS both move right with the House under pressure to get stuff done.

Obama has already suggested that would do that. Losing the House is not a good thing for liberals/progressives.