requiring funds that must originate in the House will get done.

from gaining a second term. Things might be different once they have nothing to gain by impeding progress (one can hope, anyway).

He can go out and campaign HARD to get them all kicked out in the Mid-Term elections. You think THIS campaign looked like hardball? WAIT till Team Obama doesn't have anything better to do with their time than tear apart no-talent, low-intelligence incumbent and wannabe TeaParty Congressman. The GOP can either spend the next 2 years shooting themselves in the foot, or the 2 after that shooting themselves in the head.=)

about the Republican house if he wins. As he said he believes he can push through several things no matter who the house leaders are. I imagine he believes that because he understands the tables will be turned somewhat. He never has to run again, they are promising results so they can win in 2014. The blame game is reversed.

And he's going to need us to apply a lot of pressure on congress.

ridiculous idea anyone could have come up with and it didn't come near to working". I hope that's what they're thinking and they'll get back to the work at hand.

overall, people tend to be okay with representation in their home district -- after all, chances are decent that they voted for the guy in the first place.

...get the message that we are sick of their crap and they start to get in line.

Truly I hope ALL of the Teabaggers lose, but my bigger worry is that what usually happens, happens again. That being, most of them lose this time, but since fewer people turn out for the off-year elections, a bunch of them, or a new batch, get elected in 2014.

He will be tougher on them. He can say honestly...I tried to go the bipartisan route but you are forcing me to have a line in the sand.

Actually I think this is why the republicans don't want him reelected they are afraid of this.

If they won't vote with him, they won't vote with him. He can't make laws on his own.

I remember congress was doing the same thing to him over something and he walked over to the speaker of the house's office and at first he refused to see him. He sat down in the hall and waited outside his office with full court press watching the whole thing.

He can do stuff like that…it would take a lot of balls but he could do it.

It hasn't hurt them one bit this year. Why should 2014 be any different?

their transgressions will be highlighted and names will be given. They will take responsibility for their actions or rather, their inactions.

turds out after the elections. If you doubt my forecast,you haven't been doing your homework. Notice all the legal stuff that has gone to courts in the last month.

Time to play hard ball with the rat wing.

I hope he takes every possible opportunity to point out that Boehner and Turtlehead made it clear that their ONLY priority was to deny him a second term, AND THEY FAILED AT THAT!!!

That will keep them under control

He cannot work with them and he should know it. The compromising stuff is bullshit. There will be a debt battle in 2013 (which he admittedly himself made happen, keeping one of his more right wing campaign promises). It's going to be ugly if we don't get the House back.

Also they need to change the filibuster rules if they are going to remain relevant.

C'mon, Obama, that's what got you in this mess in the first place!

I understand that sort of bipartisan thing is sort of necessary to avoid political football, but... once reelected, it doesn't matter anymore!

Call those fuckers out. There will be more more election while in office. If we don't regain the House we can get it back in 2014! Just play hard ball. Get 'er done!

2 billion will be spent on settling/changing nothing...


Yay...!

The House clearly will stay Republican. I fear Obama will once again try too hard to work with them and they'll set him up (again). I really would love for Obama to just say "F them" and go left for once come next week. "George W. Bush style" as Maher says.

As for the GOP House calming down: why would they? They won't have to answer to their constituents. Their constituents are more or less the ones driving this nonsense and re-electing them.

Since individual members of the House are elected by the majority of voters in the congressional district they represent, and presidential electoral votes are awarded (in the case of most states) on a winner-take-all basis based on the majority vote by state, you are dealing with two different methods of determining majority votes. Thus, it is quite possible for a state in which the statewide majority of voters lean one way, while the majorities in a large number of congressional districts lean another. (Pennsylvania is a classic example of this). If vote majorities were tallied the same way for both House members and the Presidency, then you could reasonably infer that individual voters were splitting their votes between parties. But since they are tallied differently, there is no basis for inferring that.