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ukcanuck wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:47 pm
I guess we’ll wait for the results before tossing online
Are you all set with pop corn and beer?
I'd like to stay up and watch, but due to the time difference I'll just have to wait till tomorrow.
Or a few weeks, if that hanging chad problem returns...
I’m a dozen hours ahead of Vancouver and apparently light years ahead of Doc since I’m a progressive (communist/socialist in newspeak )
So I’ll be at work watching the BBC
I’m hopeful but expecting the hanging chad and other more sophisticated dirty tactics to muddy the water
Per wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 10:14 pm
As adverised. Dems take house. GOP keeps senate.
No real surprises.
Well, at least some gravel in Trump's machinery, and I hear they may demand he releases his taxes...
They can't demand he release his taxes.......but the plan I heard is to investigate him for foreign dignitaries staying at Trump Hotels and how much they are paying or if they are getting illegal perks. Doing that opens the possibility of looking at his taxes.
The next two years, if the Dems choose to go that path, means a tremendous waste of tax dollars on lawyers to fight these silly political smear campaign investigations. It also throws their 2020 White House plans into the mud as bunch of obstructionists do nothings.
They didn't get the Blue wave mandate they hoped for. Trump has the economy booming and voters like that.
Over the Internet, you can pretend to be anyone or anything.
I'm amazed that so many people choose to be complete twats.
Topper wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:51 am
Obama and Clinton both suffered worse defeats in midterm elections.
Different circumstances and definitely a different Republican Party.
I’m sure we’ll hear all kinds of spin on how it was great victory for trump holding onto the senate even though there was little chance the dems would be able to gain a majority.
The good news is that the dems have some teeth in holding the flames to trumps feet.
And perhaps the party under him might have learned a lesson about ignoring the city mice.
The Democrats took control of the U.S. House of Representatives in Tuesday’s midterm elections and will pose a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s domestic and foreign policy going forward.
All 435 seats in the House were up for re-election and while the GOP maintained their control of the Senate, the Dems will now be able to dramatically shape the remainder of Trump’s time in the White House.
With Democratic control over the House, Trump’s domestic agenda – including further roll backs to the Affordable Healthcare Act, funding for the border wall, and other cuts to social security – likely won’t happen.
“The house is the key player for anything budgetwise,” Langlois-Bertrand said. “They will definitely play that card and use that aspect of the strategy to its fullest. That’s their best strategy in my mind and I’m pretty sure that Democratic leadership knows it.”
Trump will be able to block any Democratic initiatives, but the Dems will likewise be able to stop his legislative plans like tax cuts or cuts to Cabinet department budgets.