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AC_Mem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:41 AM
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What do you predict will be passed starting in 2011
With the new republican house majority and the rightward shift that it will bring:

What do you predict will be brought to congress?

What do you think will pass?

How do you think it will effect our lives?

We have some great minds here at DU, I'm very interested in your opinions.


Thanks and Happy Holidays, although my heart breaks today about the DREAM-breakers vote this morning.
Annette
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:44 AM
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1. Not much
The RepubliCons are hell bent on obstructing anything and everything to bring down Obama.
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AC_Mem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:04 PM
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10. Do you think that tactic will work now that they have House majority?
Thank you for the serious reply. I'm truly worried about my family's future and how it will be affected by decisions that the house will send up.

Since the repugs have yet to reveal their "Plan" - I was hoping for some ideas on what we might expect to see.

Annette
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 02:00 PM
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22. Bills have to pass both houses
If the RepubliCons pass something in the house, it will get bogged down in the Senate. My take is, the entire congress will be in gridlock.
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pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:47 AM
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2. Gas
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:01 PM
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7. Heeeeeeeeee. +1.
Love the username btw - very appropriate.
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pintobean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:12 PM
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13. So, I've been told
But not in a nice way, like you. :hi:
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:56 AM
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3. Obama caught in sex scandal.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:57 AM
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4. Not a damn thing. n/t
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 11:57 AM
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5. Realistic $1 million bills
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:00 PM
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6. A budget that's highly anemic on education & social services.
Zero infrastructure development.
Relaxing of Clean Air Act mandates.
Corporate welfare gone wild.
An adjustment to HCR that makes it even more toothless.
An adjustment to Banking reform that makes it completely toothless.

SS "reform" - but it'll fail.

Two, maybe three Vetoes max.
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AC_Mem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:07 PM
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11. Rucky - interesting answers
Do you think any of these will pass in the Senate, or will Democrats get smart and stop the nonsense? I mean - they still have the majority in the Senate.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:15 PM
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14. A rule change would certainly help things.
But they'll still be urged to pass compromise bills & reconcile the crap the House pushes forward. The only alternative is an effective government shutdown, and I'm not sure which is worse.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:01 PM
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8. whatever the republicans want
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TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:03 PM
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9. they'll pass whatever the repubs want with Obama's blessing nt
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:09 PM
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12. All placentas to be sent to DHS darabases.
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Imajika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:15 PM
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15. Not too terribly much...
An "austerity" budget is bound to pass. The added Republican numbers is bound to mean the focus of the debate will shift to what to cut rather than any additional stimulus.

What matters is not so much what will pass, but what won't.

The biggest issue will be that aid to the states will be cut off completely. There will be no more funds from the Federal government to keep teachers, firefighters, etc, working. This means states in the most trouble such as California will have to slash the public sector work force. The public sector on a state and local level is facing a bloodbath.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:35 PM
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16. An extra tax break to get the mega-wealthy corporations hiring again...
so they can crow that their ideas got a few people back to work in time for the next election.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:41 PM
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17. maybe, Maybe, ........
Immigration reform, since both side want the latino vote and because the (D)s have embraced the Reagan/Bush approach to it.
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FrancisTreptoe Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:42 PM
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18. The usual republican b.s
Edited on Sat Dec-18-10 12:44 PM by FrancisTreptoe
-Pro petrol and coal, anti-anything that is "green", "efficient" or alternative forms of energy such as wind, solar, etc.
-More spending for our useless wars and terrible foreign policy.
-The continuation of gitmo bay
-Social welfare cuts, or at least the discussion of cuts.
-Wasting more money on our war on drugs, gang violence will get worse.
-Maybe an extreme immigration policy that will do more harm then good, ex. Arizona's immigration law.
-Absolutely no investment in infrastructure, except if it benefits big-petrol.

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11 Bravo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:46 PM
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19. The Latinos Must Vacate Public Thoroughfares After Sundown Act of 2011
AKA the "Spic, don't let the sun set on your head in (insert wingnut hellhole here) Act."
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:47 PM
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20. Considering that a more conservative Senate is now the progressive house of Congress
I'd say almost nothing good and a quite a bit of bad if that veto pen isn't busy.
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 12:51 PM
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21. Bi-partisan cuts and more cuts in social spending to "balance the budget".
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-10 02:01 PM
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23. I'd like to lie to myself and hope that the GOP puts forth lean bills. nt
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