[TheRealThing]

Of course, it could be a joint effort by MSNBC and Clinton supporters to get all thbis out of the way before the campaign really begins. One thing is for certain. the Republicans will blow any chance they have of winning. Boehner is pitiful and McConnell is starting to seriously choke.

Honest query here. I'm not so sure that Republicans can just start steam rolling Obama now that they have the majority. Obama has been able to skirt legal limits and perpetrate atrocious EO's because he has the power. They don't call Presidencies 'administrations' for nothing. Everybody working in governmental positions of power are working for one guy, and many of them were put there by that one guy.

At the start of his tenure, Obama had the luxury of legislating everything he wanted to happen into existence. Then he lost the House and things got bad for him immediately, in that the Democratically controlled Senate had to cannibalize the Republican controlled House until the midterms, (hence the gridlock) when kool aid saturated liberals actually believed they would retake the House. WRONG, it didn't happen, and right now they're busy building up another head of steam, it's origins deriving of the very same self deception that fueled the epic losses of 2014 in expectation that they will blow out Republicans in 2016. I don't know to what extent, but people are beginning to wake up, or they wouldn't have flushed the congressional toilet last midterm. At any rate, now that liberals will not see their dreams fulfilled via legislation, they are relying on EO's and regulations which are being sent forth by the ream, by loyal and dutiful heads of the various administration controlled agencies which comprise the federal government. And BTW, when the SCOTUS punted the ObamaCare football, it certainly didn't do much to help Republicans govern either.

So, it would seem to me that the liberals have us over a barrel. As they say two wrongs don't make a right. If that is truly the case, would it not exacerbate the madness if Republicans try to take the same tack as the administration has in order to fight fire with fire? I mean, he did say he was going to fundamentally transform this country, did he not? And, he is somewhat of a constitutional lawyer to boot. Add to that the fact that he is smart and focused. The problem is not just the Republicans, it is Democrats willing to scuttle the normal workings of government as backdropped by 238 years of US history, in supporting a man just because he says he is a Democrat.

The entire Democratic coalition is comprised of a bunch of special interest groups with an ax to grind and a head of steam. I guess what I am saying is this. If Dems are determined to continue the transformation, or slam the US ship of state into the rocks trying, we better hope cooler heads prevail. Two years is a long time even at this time in history, hopefully we will see a return to normalcy at least begin to happen in that time frame. :biggrin: