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First Read has learned that House Republicans will unveil their agenda for the next Congress -- i.e., their version of a Contract with America -- on Thursday in Sterling, VA, according to House Minority Leader John Boehner's office.
Sterling, located in Virginia's 10th Congressional district, was once a reliably Republican area but has trended blue in the last five years. Its residents supported George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004 but swung for Obama in the 2008 election. The district also voted for Democrats Gov. Tim Kaine in 2005 and Sen. Jim Webb in 2006.
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Why wait till Thursday?
Items 1-5 Tax breaks for the wealthy.
6. Repeal HCR
7. Repeal Financial reform
8. Vote no on education. Keep the electorate uninformed.
9. No on immigration. Kick the can for at least to more years.
10. No on energy reform. Keep the Texas Republicans like Cheney as wealthy as possible.
11. Under no circumstances will we help the middle and lower class. Just won't do it.
That's about it for the GOP agenda.
Yup Ron, that just about sums it all up. I despise them.
Sad... but TRUE Ron!
I'm with you Pat... despise is the perfect verb to describe my feelings towards the Party of NO!
Don't forget: Freeze government spending to 2008 levels.
Sounds good until someone notices that Bush's budget was about $1.3 trillion in the hole.
Fellow Travelers:
My wife and I have just celebrated another anniversary of our wedding. This week, our daughter will be married. I hope you will agree the thought I now offer is worth sharing. This may seem a bit off-topic, but it most assuredly is not.
As I grow older, I categorically reject the notion of a personal god. I now hold dear the notion that there really is something like a soul, a wellspring of feelings we call heart, and certainly something, those of us who have been truly blessed, call love.
As time has passed, although many might say I have been an activist, I have been painfully oblivious to a great deal of the world about me. In America, where despite the never ending wail of dissatisfaction, I have known a lifestyle that would have been the envy of the greatest monarch on the planet a mere century ago. Fortune smiled upon me and placed me in the land of milk and honey.
Fortune has graced me with an even greater blessing. I would like to tell you about that blessing, that thing we call love. Why this gift was bestowed on me, I will never know. But the woman who calls me her husband gives me her love; without question, without condition, and she is more than I have any right to ask.
It is because of her I now understand this magical essence we call a soul. It is because of her I understand how a heart can rule a mind.
Love is a gift that knows no gender. Why two men may love each other is a mystery as deep as love itself. The same is true of two women who fall in love, of two women and a man, or two men and a woman.
I tell you without question, love transcends anything as transient and arbitrary as this thing called "government". I tell you without question, those who call themselves "government", those who would deny this great gift of love to any man or woman, has never experienced love, and they have neither heart nor soul as a consequence.
Ironically, those who would forbid equal marital rights to all adult men and women are the same people, who proclaim themselves to be children of God - a just and loving God. Yet they would deny their fellow human beings that same gift of love. This is the essence of evil.
These monsters must never be allowed to take control of our lives. I will fight them to the death. The enemy is within the gates and the fight truly is for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Very sweet.... but just a tad off topic, don't you think?
Also, repeal Social Security......and in support of their vision of the "free market", gotta deregulate everything!
Oil drilling platforms in every 10 miles of our coastlines---"drill baby drill"
Oh, yeah' have the ability to invade any country that they "feel" doesn't like the US.
WOW!
God, Ron, I don't want to think or believe that's all they'll truck out. The optimist in me is praying for a workable plan.
I'm good at disappointing myself, tho'.
Keep hoping Ron
You forgot you re-elected corrupt Rangel. That's the symbol of the Democrats.
Ron, Pat, Chilled, Exodit, et al. If I may jog your memory a bit. There was a time when the Democrats had it all. Super majority. Couldn't be stopped. Lasted until the first, first mind you, election and they lost it and have been losing since. Now they are faced with the possibility of losing it all.
WHY?? They have yet to figure out why! What did we say? What did we do that was wrong? Why is everybody mad at us? Well, they ignored what the American people wanted and carried out their own personal agenda for 5 minutes of political glory. Doesn't it bother you just a bit they would risk their career, their jobs just because they are in awe of a President who by comparison, never been anywhere or did anything. Oh yeah, there was the Nobel Peace Prize thing. They were so lame, shallow. They knew this was coming. They knew the wrath of voters was going to get them and they did it anyway! Height of stupidity. Do we want these same people in there?????? Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
OK, Republicans will ruin the nation, but it is the Democrats fault. They opened the door and drug them in.
libertyforyou, are you saying you don't want people governing our country who do what they think is right, even if it costs them their jobs? and the reason the democrats are in trouble has everything to do with the economy still sucking, and very little to do with the policies they've passed.
I have to agree with you, Ron
Tim in Minnesota--there is an old saying. The boss may not be right, but he is still the boss. Being "right" is pretty subjective. Not one single poll supported the health care bill. It was not passed for good of the people but for political glory. Not all that much humility involved. And yes, pretty much in trouble for a lot of things (immigration) but economy is number one. What else should they be doing?
But really Tim, what I'm saying is the Democrats had everything and they lost it. Why? They did it to themselves.
Liberty, what exactly do you think they did for 'political glory'? Pass the stimulus bill in an attempt to jump start the economy that was hemorrhaging jobs? Keep General Motors allive in order to keep tens of thousands of more workers from losing their jobs in an already horrible recession? Pass financial regulation in an attempt to prevent another catastrophe like the one we all just lived through? Oh yeah, you of course must be refering to the Health Care bill that passed. Yes, how DARE the democrats try and fix an industry that has seen prices rise at 5 times the rate of inflation and that has resulted in more uninsured people in this country ever measured? The problems with the health care industry have been growing for the past 20 years, and the only thing the Republicans did about it while they were in office was to pass a 1.2 TRILLION prescription drug benefit financed entirely through deficit spending.
Of course you can think anything you want, and I'm sure nothing anyone will post on here will change your mind, but virtually every polical analyst in the country will tell you the dems are in trouble because of one thing: the Economy. People aren't happy with it, and will therefore punish those in charge. Nevermind the fact that the economy would be in even worse shape had the democrats not passed all of those things for their own 'political glory'.
Oh? We'll find out who they want to subpoena?
The republicans have a weak narrative at best. I have not heard any new ideas from them and we know how their plans worked in the past. Unless, some one can really create jobs, then we will routinely see new faces in congress.
Reposted - This is A Wonderful Story about our "real" workers in this country.
Bless you UAW workers. Bless you. I wish you all continued good news in the future.
Corker Booed by Workers at GM Plant Ceremony, Takes Credit For Saving Industry That He Opposed Saving
General Motors recently announced that, thanks to federal efforts to keep the American auto industry from going under, it would be able to rehire 483 workers at its Spring Hill, Tennessee plant to manufacture “three variants of Ecotec four-cylinder engines.” The $438 million arrangement will start producing engines for the Buick, Chevrolet, and GMC models by 2011.
As auto blog Jalopnik reports, the plant recently held a ceremony to welcome back the new workers to begin production of the Ecotec engines. Attending the ceremony were three local Republican legislators, Sens. Bob Corker, Lamar Alexander, and Rep. Marsha Blackburn. Ironically, all three of these lawmakers opposed the plans to save General Motors and other U.S. auto companies. This didn’t stop Corker from taking credit for the federal rescue, anyway. At the event he claimed he “contributed to strengthening the auto industry in this country.” Jalopnik reports that “irony of the Republican lawmakers’ presence wasn’t lost on the workers who attended the ceremony; they booed Tennessee Republican Bob Corker”:
Happy days came back Friday to Spring Hill, Tenn., when General Motors announced it would rehire 483 laid-off workers to build four-cylinder engines. On hand to cheer the news: Three Republican lawmakers who opposed the bailout that saved GM.
As part of its $50 billion bankruptcy arranged by the Obama administration, GM shuttered the Spring Hill plant’s assembly line last year, shedding 2,000 jobs in the process, but kept building four-cylinder engines. The new plan calls for $483 million in spending to upgrade the engine line, pending a deal on state incentives.
The irony of the Republican lawmakers’ presence wasn’t lost on the workers who attended the ceremony; they booed Tennessee Republican Bob Corker, and one UAW official made clear from the stage that the union still remembered which politicians had voted to rescue Wall Street but opposed an auto industry bailout.
Jalopnik goes on to note that when the auto industry rescue was being negotiated, Corker was speaking very differently about federal efforts to revive GM. At the time, Corker said that the Obama administration “has decided they know better than our courts and our free market process how to deal with these companies. … This is a major power grab.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/20/corker-gm-plant/
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“If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system.”
Thanks, Pat, for sharing this good news. Three cheers and more for the UAW workers in Spring Hill, TN. May they always remember who it was that saved the American auto industry for future generations. Corker, Blackburn and Alexander deserved the boos. They voted NO on anything to help American workers, including saving manufacturing.
I'll add a big cheer for President Obama and democrats who did what was right for the country, not what was popular. That is leadership not politics.
Jody, let's hope they remember. This is good news for all those fathers who came home from World War II and built the middle class with unions. How tragic the way the GOP tried to bury them.
The Reagan Revolution did this. And it is disgraceful what he did to the working people in this country. It truly is time to take our country back to a time when it was strong with hard working Americans, who were only trying to raise and educate their children. And give them an affordable healthy growing up. That's all they ever wanted.
This is what our fathers gave to us. With no complaints. They wanted all Americans families to have a future for their children. Not just the wealthy. That's what the GOP is attempting to do, with the help of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck. They do the bidding for the wealthy only.
“We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.” Bill Clinton
Thanks for reposting Pat, Boston, MA
This is a major power grab.”Republican Bob Corker said?
Yea. Just like that Tarp signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 to stabilize the United States financial system and preventing a systemic collapse. How many righties will acknowledge that? GM paid their loan back with interest 5 years ahead of time with interest.
What righties don't get is, if the auto industry went down so would other manufacturing jobs tied to the automobile industry parts-supplier employees in usa.
Investing in infrastructure is especially great during this hard pressed economic times because it creates jobs and innovation for green jobs.
Well said. I work for an automobile supplier in Oklahoma, and I thank God everyday I still have my job. What everyone does not see, is the fact that there are millions of us that would have lost jobs had GM went under, all across America.
We all need to remember just who voted against workers and middle class Americans.
Is this unveiling going to have numbers?
Remember the segment on Countdown when they unveiled one of their other agendas? It was titled:
The Republicans - The party of no cents. lol
I still laugh at this when I think of it.
No one seems to notice the Sunday shows this weekend focused mostly on the candidacy of Tea Party favorite and Sarah Palin endorsee Christine O'Donnell (R) in Delaware instead of the 10 business plans.
The number of corporations flocking to places like the Cayman Islands to evade U.S. taxes has exploded. according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), this five-story office building is home to more than 18,000 corporate entities, nearly half of which have U.S. ties.
http://havenworks.com/world/cayman-islands/
Wait until the outrage comes for the same mistakes Republicans made before; that'd be letting Wall Street run amok, permanently slashing taxes for the richest 2%, and continue to dig a deeper hole in the deficit.
10 business plans to boost lending, spur investment, and create good-paying over seas and not pay taxes at dummy mail boxes condensed into 1.
Make the top 2% rich(er) off the backs the middle class.
1. What are their plans for the creation of jobs?
2. Repeal and replace obamacare.
3. Strictly enforce our current immigration laws. No need for reform, aka amnesty
4. Keep the tax cuts in place for all Americans.
5. Drastically reduce govt. spending.
6. Curtail the political influence of lobbyists (including fat cat union ceos')
If these politicians run and win on these issues, their feet should be held to the fire to make sure they follow through on their promises. If not, vote 'em out!
1) Good question.
2) Not going to happen because there won't be enough votes to overcome a veto.
3) In other words kick out all the Millions of illegals and watch our economy collapse. I don't support the cause of illegal immigrants but kicking them all out would have a catastrophic impact to our economy.
4) In other words tax breaks for the richest Americans. This would contiune the trajectory of the rich getting richer and the middle class getting squeezed.
5) The devil is in the details.
6) I agree with you on this one.
Renee-1909524
If these politicians run and win on these issues, their feet should be held to the fire to make sure they follow through on their promises. If not, vote 'em out!
I thought you were going say don't vote for less government since most of those plans have very little to do with too much government. Believe it or not, Americans enjoy some of the lowest income tax rates in the world. The US tax base is 9.4%.
Your bellyaching does not grasp you have a burden along with the rest of US TO PROVIDE
roads, bridges, libraies, parks, water supplies, sewers, power grids, firemen, police, military teachers etc . If you want potholes tearing up your car that's silly just like it would be to lose your life from a collapsed bridge or have no one to put out your fire .
They've got nothing. If they couldn't do it over the past 12 years, I doubt they will do it now.
Don't you mean "Contract On America"?
Nothing they advocate will be for the betterment of America.
Their intent is clearly to do harm by shutting down the government and impeding the administration from succeeding in any progress or positive results so that the GOP can regain power in 2012. The gaining of power at any cost to society is unethical yet not illegal, but should be criminal.
I just hope that Emanuel and Axelrod have Carville on the line and are ready with a response. It's easy: the Dems want to try to insure at least 40 million uninsured Americans and prevent insurance companies from dropping you for pre-existing conditions - the GOP only wants to cover 3 million uninsured and take away your right to sue. No law is perfect, but do you want a Democrat working to to help the most Americans, or the GOP whose goal is only to help a few?
WH Planning Ad Assault vs. Tea Party
President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said.
White House and Congressional Democratic strategists are trying to energize dispirited Democratic voters over the coming six weeks, in hopes of limiting the party’s losses and keeping control of the House and Senate. The strategists see openings to exploit after a string of Tea Party successes split Republicans in a number of states, culminating last week with developments that scrambled Senate races in Delaware and Alaska.
“We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.
Democrats are divided. The party’s House and Senate campaign committees are resistant, not wanting to do anything that smacks of nationalizing the midterm elections when high unemployment and the drop in Mr. Obama’s popularity have made the climate so hostile to Democrats. Endangered Congressional candidates want any available money to go to their localized campaigns.
Late Sunday night, White House advisers denied that a national ad campaign was being planned. “There’s been no discussion of such a thing at the White House” or the Democratic National Committee, said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser.
Biznine,
The WH ISN"T planning on any add attacks, individual Congress people & Senate may use these tactics, but not the WH. MSNBC covered it this morning no plans for WH to do this. Now w/ people like Karl Rove giving the Dems ammo for Christine"the Chasity Belt" McDonnell, people like Coons just have to show this in commercial. Harry Reid in NV has resurrected Sharon Angle's website before the Repubs came in and try to scrub. We have Boxer showing ads in CA about Fiorina shipping jobs over to China when she was head of HP. So no, the WH isn't doing this unlike W's, individuals themselves are.
“We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party,”
History shows us it is always dangerous to "empower" the Republican Party my friend.
K.D.
STrike up the band the Three Stooges have something to say! Yipppeeee! I am sure it will be new and innovative and simply ground breaking! I mean their track record is so GOLDEN in these situations. Let's just hope the printer doesn't leave off any numbers, columns or actual data! yessiree, bob! Call a presser cuz' we can HARDLY wait for this earth shattering revelation of new and improved rhetoric!
yes, that's a touch of sarcasm - well deserved, I might add.
Is it too much to hope for that something will be presented that actually resembles a viable plan? Is it too much to ask for conservative leadership?
I wait with baited breath.
Dear Mr. Dragon:
I follow your posts with interest, and I would like to answer your question - or at least attempt to do so: "Is it too much to ask for conservative leadership?" The answer is Yes. By definition, conservatives do not lead. What people who call themselves "conservatives" have done over the past half-century is to jump into the red ink pool and cavort right along with the "liberals".
I believe what we need is someone with a liberal/progressive mindset, who understands arithmetic, who understands that you do not secure the blessings of liberty with credit.
Of course, such a person would have to tell the unvarnished truth. That is an automatic disqualification for anyone seeking public office.
There is not a single soul who is willing to tell the public that many, many people will never again see their jobs return. Not a soul will say the only way to balance the budget is to cut programs, waste, AND increase taxes. No one is willing to talk about the subsidies to virtually every sector in our "private" economy. No one is willing to talk about reducing expectations.
So, the answer to both of your questions is, "Yes!" We may have slightly different perspectives, but I'll bet if we sat down in a room with full authority to balance the budget, we could do it in one week. We'd be six feet deep the day after we presented that budget.
I am afraid so, we'll see Thursday! (snark)
The tragedy is that you're almost entirely correct. The need to secure one's political future has superceded the need to be a good civil servant.
I don't, however, feel that conservatives are capable of leading. I think the conservative view, as it once was, is the preferred view - intervene only when necessary, but otherwise promote fiscal responsibility in government and personal responsibility in society.
Unfortunately, that attitude seems lacking. Special interests would have the Republicans meddle in the private affairs of citizens (gay rights, Terri Schiavo) and prohibit reasonable regulation of industry abuses (Enron, the MMS, Haliburton) when it causes harm to the average citizen.
Regardless, that final assertion of yours, that we'd all be buried within a day of presenting a pragmatic and effective national budget? Complete truth.
One could only hope they produce a viable plan with actual figures and the most important ingrediant----how are they going to accomplish their plan point by point.
I do not hold my breath for the fact is they have not offered any kind of help, anything different from when they were in control of the government. They have so far tried to say that their policies from past will put this country back on track fiscally. They do not remember but I sure in the hell do that they brought 2 un funded wars, uncontrolled spending and less taxes for the rich so they can hide more of their from being taxed and de-regulation of our financial system which came very close to imploding completely, no child left behind act which was left under funded, the fix to medicare which created the donught hole and the associated costs of it.
Now if they have a viable plan, other than what they have already done to this country, then I will gladly welcome their plan, until then they are just blowing smoke up my ass!
We already know the GOP adgenda if they retake Congress:
1) Protect Wall Street at all costs.
2) Protect the top 1% of the rich at all costs.
3) Bring Congress to a grinding halt while conducting a witch hunt looking for absolutely ANYTHING they think they can impeach Obama over.
It's basically what they did in the 1990s except that we still have to deal with the damage done from the last time these clowns were in charge.
PLEASE NOTE: I'm not suggesting here, that Democrats are much better. But at least the Democrats aren't taking affirmative steps to cut people off from desperately needed unemployment during one of the worst recessions since the the Great Depression. I'll take the Party of naivety over the Party heartless bastardism every day of the week, thanks.
And I wait with 'bated breath.
The last time I allowed my breath to be baited was when I ate sushi.
"Oohh, Oohh, What is our Plan for tonight Brain?"
"We are going to take over the World, Pinky, Just like we Always Do!"
And beyond that, whatever their rhetoric, the Repubs and the TPers have no real plan other than to impose their "Brand" of "Morals" on the rest of us while they totally ignore them themselves and to make sure that the money flows unchecked to their Uber Rich, Too-Rich-To-Fail, Buddies! Sacrificing the Middle Class is all just part of their game of turning us into poverty stricken wage slaves with no say in what happens.
Sen. Jim DeMint announced his plan "FILIBUSTER"!!!
He said it would be good for business as it would remove uncertainty!!
There's a plan, bring in a bunch of new TEA PARTY SENATORS to stop any plan to improve our situation, more delays,obfuscation,and uncreative ideas to solve any of the problems we face.
Show me a businessman anywhere that would knowingly hire a bunch of people that will not solve any problems he faces, yet here we are, willing to hire TEA PARTIERS TO DO JUST THAT BECAUSE WE'RE ANGRY!!
When Pres. Obama took office there were like 1000 fires burning, now only 500 burning, we are going the right direction, just not fast enough for most people!
I suspect their agenda will be devoid of any costs or details, "common sense policies", "reduce the deficit", "personnel responsibility", "free market", "tax cuts", "vouchers", "Ronald Reagan", "evil unions" ,"God" , "greatest nation", "patriotic", "democracy", "terrorist threat", "conservative values", "socialism", "privatize", you all know the drill. I predict buzz words a plenty, meaningful data and a plan on "how" not so much.
Agenda for the republicans? Who knew? We all do know what the republican agenda is, actually it is the same old agenda they have been peddling for 40 years, the rich get richer, those of you who work for a living will work longer and harder for less and the poor get left out in the cold.
Good moniker; the Democrats are the 'Union's Baby'; their agenda is stealing from the private sector to give to their patrons, the corrupt 'ruling class' public sector unions.
Republican Agenda
1) No
2) No
3) No
etc.... repeat as needed!
I believe everyone knows what will be presented in the Republican agenda, and I believe everyone knows the Republican presentation will be very vague on specifics as to costs, implementation and long term effects, what I believe will be much more interesting is how the media handles the issue, will they ask the questions that need answered or will they just repeat the meaningless buzz words of the Republicans? How about it media, are you going to do the right thing? Can't wait to see how this comes down.
Of course the Repubs would like to blame the WH for any negative ads that come because its what the last administration did. This WH knows it better to remain above the fray and let the people decide what their choices are. Unfortunately for the Repubs, that means having candidates actually debate the Dem counterparts which they know would end up being a disaster. Sharon Angle challenges Harry Reid to a debate and when he accepts, she backs out. Buck in CO is going to have to explain his positions on abortion and that might a problem for him because he believes a woman should be forced to carry a child even in the case of rape or incest. McDonnell will have to explain her mice w/ human brains comment and well as a host of others. She's been challenged by Bill Maher to come on his show because he has tape of her when she came on his "Political Incorrect" show back in the 90's. The Maher stuff so far isn't damaging, but it fooder for those who may already be a little suspicious of her.
The public is upset and rightly so, but it took 30 years to dig this hole, it may take years to get out but we've become "me" generation. Meaning I want want I want, and I want it now. Patience has become something of a ghost and prologue.
Just so we are clear then....the whole time you Tea Baggers and GOPers were saying no and crying socialism, demanding plans for jobs and trying to tabloid Obama...... you never had a plan?
So from Obama's inauguration til' this Thursday you DIDN'T HAVE A PLAN...or any Solutions...or any viable alternatives to any of our problems...until now. Amazing that the mob rules set out there wants respoinsibility in government but doesnt demand a plan from its candidates.
Cant wait to see a plan. We haven't seen one from the GOP in years.
I can say though, that it better have new ideas with numbers or it will be no plan at all. And hopefully its something they can run on ....instead of running from debates and policy questions.
NO SOLUTIONS, NO VOTE!
President Obama is getting desperate now because his party is so far behind. He is even going to go to PA to stump for Rep Sestak, the same democrat be campaigned against in the primary. If the democrats think they have done so good during the past two years, why don't they run on their record and not run away from the records. A lot of the democrats won't even admit they are democrats in their ads, now that is just sorry, plus they are running against Obama and the current congress.
Yep, the Tea Bagger, GOP anger and fear lives on...only if they dont have to have actual ideas.
What the next story is going to be is how the Tea Baggers are going to react to the GOP establishment elite telling them what the plan will be. Last I checked, Tea Baggers don't like washington elites trelling them what to do. Pass the popcorn!
C'mon tea baggers, demand that your whacky ideas be 'in the plan' .
Coming this November......Contract on America II: 'New Ideas are for Losers'
Republican agenda:
Screw the poor and middle class
Make the rich richer
Borrow more money from COMMUNIST China for unpaid for wars.
Continue unpaid for wars
Just say no to anything that helps the nation recover from the rape by banks and lobbyists.
Keep people in constant fear (like a Nazi would do)
Promote theocracy
Peep into the doings in people's bedrooms.
Call themselves the Party of Family Values while leaving mates for someone younger.
Continue to support failed economic trickle down theory.
Continue to support a President that gave amnesty to millions of illegals (Reagan) while criticizing a President that sends troops to the border (Obama)
Support insurance giants who, like them, just say no to medical treatment while padding the pockets of CEOs who fail.
One other thing that we already know is on the Republican agenda if they win the House: Go on a witch hunt in the Obama administration. The Republican Cotton Mather who will preside over the Great Washington Witch Trials of 1611 (I mean 2011) will be Rep. Daryl Issa, who has already signaled his intentions to issue a raft of subpoenas. "Subpoena" is a difficult word to spell, but we'll all get lots of practice at it if the Republicans take over the House).
As for things that actually improve anything, the Republicans will produce many slogans about creating jobs with yet more tax cuts that will help explode the deficit. But not very much beyond slogans.