Hamster Buddha
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Re: The Mid-Terms Results Thread
Mitch isn't going to leave, he won his re-election soundly so it's not like anyone's going to oppose him for the majority chair. I will say this though, on the flip side, if Cruz was running the Senate, and Obama AND him could find common ground, it mean a lot more with chances of passing if McConnell and Obama came up with something.
Clearly, as a Canadian, I don't have any say in the matter, but personally I think McConnell will be a fine Majority Leader. Unlike Harry Reid, McConnell does actually attempt to get agreement on matters and get things done and he is far more likely to pick off some Democrat support, particularly after what happened yesterday, and he's likely to get some forward movement on policy that the country sorely needs.
Making someone like Cruz Majority Leader would be like winning the Powerball lottery and flushing your ticket down the toilet. Cruz needs to be marginalized and made even more irrelevant than he already is. He's only "known" because the MSM likes to parade Republican imbeciles before the cameras to push their liberal agenda.
I disagree with your McConnell assessment. I can't stand Harry Reid but McConnell is the idiot on the flip side of the same coin. He's just terrible.
This I can agree with. Cruz is inflammatory and the GOP has enough of that in the House. If within their control of the House and the Senate... the Senate starts acting as inflammatory as the House as Cruz is wont to do... I think it'd blow up in the GOP's faces come the general election.
Mitch isn't going to leave, he won his re-election soundly so it's not like anyone's going to oppose him for the majority chair. I will say this though, on the flip side, if Cruz was running the Senate, and Obama AND him could find common ground, it mean a lot more with chances of passing if McConnell and Obama came up with something.