In Louisiana, GOP's Senator-Elect Cassidy vows to oppose Obama

Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy's defeat of Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu completes the GOP's takeover of Deep South politics and its national domination of the 2014 midterm elections.

But Cassidy, a three-term congressman and physician from Baton Rouge, remains mum on the details of what he believes Republicans should do with their control of Capitol Hill, other than continuing to battle President Barack Obama through the last two years of his second term.

"The American people do not like the agenda that Barack Obama has staked out for our country, nor do they like the effects of these policies," Cassidy told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in his only scheduled interview on Sunday.

Cassidy specifically cited the president's health care overhaul and alluded to the administration's regulatory approach to oil, gas and coal, repeating the GOP mantra that those policies "kill those jobs." He also lambasted Obama's executive action on immigration. But he offered no alternatives to any of those policies.

The senator-elect's lack of details reflected his campaign strategy of making the election about Obama and Landrieu's voting record in support of the White House. That approach was enough to yield a 56 percent to 44 percent victory in a Saturday runoff.

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