Someone once said the Republican definition of "bipartisanship" is "buy into my partisanship."
The longer this congress goes on, the truer this becomes.
The GOP writes bills no Democrat could possibly support - nearly 50 attempts to repeal Obamacare with no plausible replacement suggested, bills to re-deregulate the financial industry because laissez-faire worked so well in the Bush era, bills to authorize the Ogalalla Aquifer Devastation Project and drill ANWR - then complains about the Democrats' killing those bills? We're at the point where the bills are no longer meant to become laws, they're meant to NOT become laws so the GOP can "prove" the only way to get anything done is to give them a majority in the House and 67 seats in the Senate so they can get rid of Obama once and for all. Then once they do that, Boehner will switch places with Eric Cantor, they'll impeach Biden and hey presto, President Eric Cantor!
This plan ignores one minor point: if the Republicans overthrow Obama, the first thing Biden will do is make Nancy Pelosi vice-president. Then if they overthrow Biden, their worst nightmare has come true: President Pelosi who, according to a part of the Constitution they ignore because it isn't fun, will be eligible to be reelected twice.
It ignores one medium point: the number of Democrats they have to defeat to get to 67 seats is 21, which happens to be the exact number of seats currently held by Democrats that are up for election in 2014...and to get all 21, they've got to knock off the Democrats in Oregon, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Hawaii.
And it ignores the hugest point of all: Obamacare will be working well by the time November 2014 rolls around, and the voters will remember the only thing the fucking Republicans did was stand in its way. Combine that with a massive anti-incumbent sentiment and they might not even keep the House majority, much less lose the strength needed to obstruct in the Senate.
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