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John Boehner: '1 In 3 Chance' Republicans Lose Control Of House

Tuesday, April 24, 2012


If Democrats manage to regain the House and retain the Senate, do you think it means that voters like the job that Obama and the DLC-controlled Democratic Congress are doing, or that voters were afraid of Teabaggers setting the agenda?

Do you think a win for Democrats would push Obama to the left? Would it get Obama to end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (and not just pull out a few troops), or would it spur Obama to expand the wars, into Iran, and Syria, and elsewhere?

Do you think that if Democrats manage to retain control over Congress, that it would spur Obama on to take to the bully pulpit, pump real money into job stimulus, get Reid to push real populist bills (like those that the House passed in 2008 and 2009), through to passage in the Senate through reconciliation, and force Republicans to actually filibuster instead of just threatening to?

What, substantively, would you expect out of Obama and Democrats if Democrats were to regain control over Congress after November? 

Specifically, what would that look like? Obama making speeches kicking Republicans' collective butts? What about actions? 

How do you think Obama would spin a win by Democrats? As a referendum that the voters like his "bipartisan approach to Republicans", and want him to do more of the same?  Move even more to the right?  Do you expect Obama and Democrats to put through Simpson-Bowles or the People's budget?

Or do you think Obama would acknowledge his own party's displeasure with him and Democrats, and the only reason they kept Congress in Democrats' hands is because they bought the 'fear' campaign of Tea Partiers controlling the government?
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