What would happen if Republicans had a SUPER-MAJORITY??!!
BlueRepublican
2012/06/16 17:04:26
Constitutional checks and balances. But what happens when one group has complete control of the governing process?
We briefly saw what a Democratically-controlled Super-Majority looked like.
We saw the legislation that was passed. We saw the hyper-partisanship and breakdown of communication with the opposition. Now we see the results of these actions.
Which begs the question: What would happen if Republicans had a SUPER-MAJORITY??!! That's right. A GOP controlled House, Senate and Republican President.
What do you think would happen? What kind of legislation would pass? Would the opposition have a chance? Where does that leave 3rd parties like the Libertarians? What direction would the country go in? What about the people?
I wanna know what you think. Leave me a comment, share with everyone you know, and don't forget to RAVE!!!!!!
What would happen if Republicans had a SUPER-MAJORITY??!!
We briefly saw what a Democratically-controlled Super-Majority looked like.
We saw the legislation that was passed. We saw the hyper-partisanship and breakdown of communication with the opposition. Now we see the results of these actions.
Which begs the question: What would happen if Republicans had a SUPER-MAJORITY??!! That's right. A GOP controlled House, Senate and Republican President.
What do you think would happen? What kind of legislation would pass? Would the opposition have a chance? Where does that leave 3rd parties like the Libertarians? What direction would the country go in? What about the people?
I wanna know what you think. Leave me a comment, share with everyone you know, and don't forget to RAVE!!!!!!
What would happen if Republicans had a SUPER-MAJORITY??!!
Top Opinion
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Kane Fernau 2012/06/16 17:21:04
1. The federal courts will be stacked with so-called "Strict Constructionists" who will use any law to overturn every anti-corporate, labor, environmental and regulatory precedent in the last 100 years to permanently enshrine supreme power with governmental/corporate authority. Just like they used an obscure 1876 property decision, Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad, to enshrine fictitious entities with full citizenship rights.
2. :"Austerity" will reign supreme. Shock Doctrine economic policies will be imposed. Social Services budgets will be cut to the bone while defense budgets will increase for the coming war with Iran. Governmental properties will be sold off at fire sale prices to multinationals to cover increasing local and state deficits. Police and fire services will be cut or privatized to mercenary corporations with the deployment of surveillance and attack drones over US cities. As ciizens' lives deteriorate, those drones will be integrated with the DHS/NSA surveillance system to identify and eliminate anyone who tries to organize any counter to the corporate agenda. They will be labeled as "Domestic Terrorists".
3. Republicans will use the spu...
1. The federal courts will be stacked with so-called "Strict Constructionists" who will use any law to overturn every anti-corporate, labor, environmental and regulatory precedent in the last 100 years to permanently enshrine supreme power with governmental/corporate authority. Just like they used an obscure 1876 property decision, Santa Clara County v Southern Pacific Railroad, to enshrine fictitious entities with full citizenship rights.
2. :"Austerity" will reign supreme. Shock Doctrine economic policies will be imposed. Social Services budgets will be cut to the bone while defense budgets will increase for the coming war with Iran. Governmental properties will be sold off at fire sale prices to multinationals to cover increasing local and state deficits. Police and fire services will be cut or privatized to mercenary corporations with the deployment of surveillance and attack drones over US cities. As ciizens' lives deteriorate, those drones will be integrated with the DHS/NSA surveillance system to identify and eliminate anyone who tries to organize any counter to the corporate agenda. They will be labeled as "Domestic Terrorists".
3. Republicans will use the spurious threat of "voter Fraud to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as possible to ensure their goal of a one-Party Republican State. The simultaneous conversion to an easily-manipulated and hacked all-touch screen, corporate-controlled voting system will ensure that majority regardless of the actual choice of the electorate. Voting participation will fall further as more become disenchanted with the futility of the electoral process, also furthering the corporate agenda.
4.War will come with Iran, fomented by a nuclear-weapons-armed Israel to destroy Iran's nuclear program. Media will beat the War drums. Dissent will be stifled completely as unpatriotic and traitorous with DHS providing facilities to house the most vocal in the burgeoning privatized Prison Gulag. As Casualties mount, calls for a nuclear strike will increase wirh China and Russia joining Iran at the nuclear brink.
5.The governments and corporate elite will retreat into their secure bunkers to wait out the carnage as 7/8s of the global population of "useless eaters" is exterminated and will eventually emerge to reclaim the world.
1. Savings & Loan deregulation directly leading to the collapse of the entire industry. Witness the Lincoln savings & loan debacle.
2 Assault on the labor movement beginning with the PATCO strike leading to a shrinkage of union membership over the past 30 years and a corresponding flattening of ALL worker's pay during the same period.
3. Illegal, off-the-books wars fought without Congressional authorization leading to the second Constitutional Crisis over Iran/Contra. The rise of the Imperial Presidency and continuation of the same lie-based wars through the Bush admin.
4. Erosion of individual liberties as exemplified by passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and culminaring in the NDAA of 2012 that authorizes murder of US citizens by the Executive.
5. The explosion of the national debt through the pernicious combination of Tax cuts for the wealthy, two unfunded wars halfway around the globe and an abject failure to create conditions on the ground for a stable peace in EITHER area leading to decline in US power and influence on a global scale.
6. The increasing militarization of the police force and the rise and influence of the "Pr...
1. Savings & Loan deregulation directly leading to the collapse of the entire industry. Witness the Lincoln savings & loan debacle.
2 Assault on the labor movement beginning with the PATCO strike leading to a shrinkage of union membership over the past 30 years and a corresponding flattening of ALL worker's pay during the same period.
3. Illegal, off-the-books wars fought without Congressional authorization leading to the second Constitutional Crisis over Iran/Contra. The rise of the Imperial Presidency and continuation of the same lie-based wars through the Bush admin.
4. Erosion of individual liberties as exemplified by passage of the Patriot Act of 2001, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and culminaring in the NDAA of 2012 that authorizes murder of US citizens by the Executive.
5. The explosion of the national debt through the pernicious combination of Tax cuts for the wealthy, two unfunded wars halfway around the globe and an abject failure to create conditions on the ground for a stable peace in EITHER area leading to decline in US power and influence on a global scale.
6. The increasing militarization of the police force and the rise and influence of the "Privatized" Prison Industry Gulag that has a vested interest in INCREASING what is already a larger prison population than China. The deployment of Drones over US territory to increase the power of the surveillance/police state.
7. The wholesale erosion of civil liberties and privacy through the NSA mandate of Total Information Awareness as exemplified by the continuing Domestic Surveilance regime implemented by the NSA that is STILL ongoing. A program that was expressly FORBIDDEN by the NSA's OWN mandate.
8. the stacking of the court system by political operatives leading to the pernicious Citizens United V FEC SCOTUS decison that opened the floodgates of corporate money to influence and buy elections, giving corporations bit domestic AND foreign as well as sovereign wealth funds undue influence over the electoral process. So how do you LIKE Chinese intelligence determining who we elect?
1. Savings and Loans didn't collapse, whatever wrongdoing was found was prosecuted.
2. Unions sink or swim as to their effectiveness in representing their members, that's the sole reason they are at their lowest membership levels in 30 years.
3. There wasn't a "constitutional crisis" involving Iran/Contra, and CONGRESS declares or authorizes war actions, ALL actions have been bi-partisan.
4. Both parties support the Patriot Act of 2001, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and culminaring in the NDAA of 2012 that authorizes murder of US citizens by the Obama.
5. Absurd, since the Democrats and self proclaimed "progressives" took the congress in Nov 2006 they have added $7 TRILLION to the national debt and have not passed a budget in well over 1000 days.
6. Drones are only used over the border and under the watch of the Obama.
7. I guess you forgot that the Obama is in charge of that.
8. The Citizens United ruling was 5-4, there was no stacking of the court. Further, judges are impartial, not politically motivated. Oh, and Citizens United was a good ruling, both sides can now spend all the money they want, it leveld the playing field.
There ya go, "bub".
"austerity"?? Again, not since Taft. And since Republican candidates have the same Keynesian economics view, it's likely that the policies won't change much. ... Unless, of course we can find another president who enjoys interns and cigars more than paperwork.
And let's not forget the honored memory of the man responsible for throwing out the 2000 election and appointing George W. Bush President:
They completely ignore it.
Harry Reid is the obstructionist, and he is in the majority in the Senate. It is too bad for all Americans such a partisan hack is in control of anything.
But then, unfortunately, Ted Kennedy died, and there went the supermajority.
Since then, those nasty, traitorous, nitwitted, regressive Tea Party thugs have been able to obstruct all progress.
However, you're correct that during that period the historic passage of the Health Care Reform Law alone accomplished more than Bush did in eight years. And don't forget that during that period they also managed to pass a stimulus that, while too small, averted a second Great Depression and added over 4 million American jobs. They also managed to save the American automobile industry, which Republicans like Mitt Romney wanted to see go out of business entirely.
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That's the only time the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act could have been passed.
Epic fail!