And the president wouldn't sign any form of repeal. They can stage this very showy vote, and then it goes nowhere in the Senate. They can't repeal the health care bill on their own.
So the GOP strategy will have to be one of confrontation. The bad news about being in charge of the House of Representatives and nothing else is that you don't really get to do anything. How likely is it that Republicans will accomplish their goals? The presumptive House speaker, John Boehner, is putting the extension of Bush-era tax cuts and the repeal of Obama's health care reform at the top of the GOP agenda. And they squandered it in part because of the president's mythological attachment to this notion of bipartisanship that the Republicans had not agreed to. They squandered it in part by overpromising to deliver things they couldn't. They squandered it in part by failing to act on things that they had promised. They had the largest majority in 40 years, and they squandered it. What happened to the groundswell of support that pushed Barack Obama and the Democratic Party to power in 2008?
"Looking at the past two years as prologue, that's not a big confidence builder for Democrats." "The entire state of play now is about the degree to which Obama and the remaining Senate Democrats are willing to stand their ground as Democrats," said Segura, who is also chair of Chicana/o Studies at Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Stanford political science Professor Gary Segura spoke with the Stanford Report about the election results and what lies ahead for American politics and governance. As of Wednesday afternoon, three Senate and 11 House races were still undecided. Republicans won control of the House by picking up at least 60 seats, and whittled the Democratic Senate majority by at least six seats. Stanford political science Professor Gary SeguraĪfter the biggest congressional sweep since 1948, Democrats fell victim in Tuesday's midterm elections to a troubled economy and growing discontent and frustration with their party and President Obama's agenda.
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