The midterm elections coming up this November are the most important elections of my lifetime. Republicans have gridlocked Washington DC. The longer this Republican obstruction continues, the more damage will be done to our country.
There are three possible scenarios that could emerge after the election: 1) Maintain the status quo; 2) the Republicans take over the Senate and keep the House of Representatives; 3) the Republicans lose the House of Representatives and the Democrats keep the Senate.
1) Maintaining the status quo – The Republicans keep the House of Representatives and don’t take over the Senate:
The first and second most unproductive sessions of the House of Representatives in American history have been the last two Republican-controlled sessions. The House Republicans, [specifically Speaker of the House John Boehner, (R-OH)] absolutely refuse to allow any bill to the floor for a vote that will help the American people, even though many of them would have passed.
Maintaining the status quo would mean two more years of nothing getting done for the American people. Meanwhile, the Republicans in the House will continue to investigate the Obama administration incessantly as they have been doing since they took over the House in 2010.
2) The Republicans take over the Senate and keep the House of Representatives:
If this occurs America will see a circus sideshow in the House and Senate that will be unprecedented. The first two things the Republicans will do as soon as they take over is to start impeachment proceedings against Obama, and send a bill to President Obama repealing The Affordable Care Act, (ACA, ObamaCare).
The Republicans have already been talking about impeaching President Obama even though they have no reason at all to it. The Republicans don’t understand that there are standards that have to be met to impeach a president. The Republicans also have no idea how our government works
Of course, President Obama won’t sign something that appeals the ACA voluntarily so the Republicans will stick it in something that President Obama has to sign. Like a bill keeping the government open or paying our bills; something that would be catastrophic if not signed.
3). The Republicans lose the House of Representatives and the Democrats keep the Senate: America will see job creation bills, transportation bills, and infrastructure bills passed. The same bills that Speaker Boehner, (R-OH), has refused to bring to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote even though the Senate passed them in a bipartisan vote. The federal minimum wage will be raised and immigration reform will begin.
If the people, who voted in 2008 and 2012 and not in 2010, vote in 2014, we can return a little sanity to the legislative branch of our federal government, and we can begin to repair the damage to our economy the Republicans have wrought on our country since 2010.
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