Could the the Republican prayers be answered?
The Mid-term elections would indicate that the Republicans have swooped down and blown the poor helpless Democrats out of the batter's box. The have taken over the Senate and are in majority in the House. How wonderful for them. How magnificent their victory. Or is it?
The Reps will soon discover that having the entire burden of the government's woes will not be the rosy path they think it is. The Reps hated Barack Obama...literally hated the man... [Which I never understood.] and now they will butt heads with the man on a daily basis without the buffer of either house on the hill.
Let's take a bill through the process: How Are Laws Made?
Laws begin as ideas. First, a representative sponsors a bill. The bill is then assigned to a committee for study. If released by the committee, the bill is put on a calendar to be voted on, debated or amended. If the bill passes by simple majority (218 of 435), the bill moves to the Senate. In the Senate, the bill is assigned to another committee and, if released, debated and voted on. Again, a simple majority (51 of 100) passes the bill. Finally, a conference committee made of House and Senate members works out any differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill. The resulting bill returns to the House and Senate for final approval. The Government Printing Office prints the revised bill in a process called enrolling. The President has 10 days to sign or veto the enrolled bill. [http://www.house.gov/...]
THE PRESIDENT HAS FINAL APPROVAL!
Therein lies the rub for the Republicans. A Democrat still holds sway in this country – at least for the next two years.
In that last two years of Barack Obama's presidency, the Reps will try to mess with the ACA [Obamacare], even repeal it if they can, and that bill stands no chance of being signed into law. Remember, the ACA has already been challenged in the Supreme Court so it stands little chance that the Reps can run an end-around and get the bill passed even if POTUS vetoes it.
Millions of people are currently taking advantage of Obamacare and they would come down very heavy on the party that tries to take that program away from them. It would cause a huge Republican defeat in 2016.
We Liberals – chickens that we are for not supporting our president during these mid-terms – will still have power in the legislation that is brought before the president for approval.