Republicans had a decisive victory in last week’s midterm elections, winning several key states and ultimately the Senate majority. The gubernatorial race was also swept by Republicans, with governor re-elections in Maryland, Wisconsin, Florida and here in Michigan with Rick Snyder.
“People are frustrated with what they see going on in Washington and they’re looking for a change,” junior public relations major Arielle Borkovich said. “I hope that we can move in a positive direction.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell won re-election by a large margin, securing his spot as Senate Majority Leader come January.
“Some things don’t change after tonight,” McConnell in a victory speech said. “I don’t expect the President to wake up tomorrow and view the world any differently than he did when he woke up this morning.”
After some silence, McConnell quipped, “He knows I won’t either,” to thunderous applause.
“But look, we do have an obligation to work together on issues where we can agree,” McConnell said. “I think we have a duty to do that. Just because we have a two-party system doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict.”
Mason Bailey, a finance major at Michigan State University, says “The recent uproar of votes for Republicans in the Senate is no surprise, given President Obama’s recent shift to national unpopularity.”
Bailey contends that Obama’s decisions regarding the NSA and foreign policy could be to blame for the resulted Republican congress (the first since 2006).
“Even at Spartan Stadium, where many of the seats are filled with what should be left-leaning college students, when Obama’s face is shown on the big screen it gets bombarded with jeers from the football crowd,” Bailey said. “Obama has lost many of the people that supported him from the beginning.”
Certainly President Obama’s remaining two years in office will be affected by a GOP-unified Congress, but just how much? In a press conference following the election results, the President stressed bipartisanship.
“The key is to make sure that [the] ideas that I have overlap somewhere with some of the ideas that Republicans have,” Obama said.
Obama met with newly elected GOP leaders over lunch last Friday to discuss just how much political “overlap” there might be between parties. As Republicans are preparing immigration reform legislation, GOP leaders warned President Obama not to take executive action. It appears as though Obama will act if legislation isn’t signed by year’s end.
More gridlock, then? Will the parties ever get along? Borkovich hopes not.
“I hope that [Congress] will be more productive. However, difficult decisions need to be made and someone is always going to be disappointed with the outcomes,” Borkovich said.
For more on the midterm election and a live senate floor webcast, visit www.senate.gov.
Dave Francis • Nov 13, 2014 at 9:31 pm
YOU NEED TO RESPOND TO STOP THE OBAMA AMNESTY?
WITHOUT
YOUR HELP?
$9.000.000.000.000 dollars is the approximate cost of Obamas Amnesty.
Imperialist Obama the ‘First’ is back on amnesty with a vengeance, proclaiming it will boost the economy and shrink the deficit. Yet another lie and just like Obamacare, Benghazi and the VA scandal and all the other agencies that have deceived the American people, that are in collusion with the Oval Office. The monolithic sized government has already gorged itself on YOUR taxes to the amount of 7.000.000.000.000 in welfare giveaways and in many cronyism grants for green energy businesses, which finally went bankrupt. This inept administration is sitting on nearly $18.000.000.000.000 of piles of I.OU’s to foreign investors and the interest is growing forever larger each day.
If he gets his way 5 million plus illegal aliens will steal our jobs, drive down wages, crowd our children schools, daily commutes an incomprehensible nightmare and never ending welfare for “Anchor Babies”; Chain Migration will sponsor even more millions of people, brought to America to gorge on the US taxpayer. The Illegal Immigration invasion of millions already settled here, thanks to Obamas orders, only to “Catch and Release” which is already devastating the U.S. economy with their demand for government handouts. And, they’ll vote Democrats into office for the next several decades.
Foreign nationals are taking to the streets, demanding “No more deportations!” Obama’s reply, “If I could bypass Congress I would.”
BUT HE IS CIRCUMVENTING CONGRESS ANYWAY. The fact his imminent executive order that is ringing throughout South America and across the world is bringing more expectant mothers, families, minors and individual through any form of transportation possible. The limited numbers of immigration agents cannot hold back the flows, arriving at some of the most flimsy areas along the Southern border.
This President will disregard angry disapproval from the Conservatives and pronounce probably next week a extensive revamp of the nation’s immigration enforcement organism that will protect up to five million illegal aliens from the risk of deportation and grant many of them with work permits, according to government official who has direct comprehension of the agenda. Affirming his authority as an authoritarian with enforcement of this nation’s laws with overreaching his power of office, Barack Obama proposes to order changes that will extensively redeploy the actions of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the classification, officials said, will permit many parents of children (who are American citizens or lawful residents) to attain legal work documents and no longer have agonize about being discovered by ICE agents and be separated from their families and deported.
That part of this Presidents scheme alone could influence as many as 3.3 million people who have been residing illegally in this sovereign country for at least five years. This analysis is according to the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration research organization in Washington. However, the White House is also reflecting on a stricter guideline that would limit the benefits to persons who have lived in the country for at least 10 years, or about 2.5 million people. Whatever the action this is a very dangerous move because the millions of illegal aliens emerging from the shadows will be standing on shifting quicksand. Meaning once the Congress changes over ridding from their seats Senator Harry Reid, and executive order could be reversed? The consequences could be round-ups, because ICE would be aware of their locations.
In a Report from the Heritage Foundation states:
The cost of an illegal alien receiving amnesty from Obama is not a short term cost. In fact it has been worked out that over 50 years the cost is more than $9 TRILLION for the five million would be legalizing. Barack Obama really wants to bankrupt our nation. Of course the five million illegal aliens he makes “legal” will also challenge five million honest Americans, Hispanics, blacks, men, women and youth for available low pay jobs.
“The average illegal immigrant is 34 years old. If he receives amnesty, he will receive government benefits for 50 years. Some amnesty proposals suggest restricting benefit access for the first 13 years after amnesty, but that limit would have little impact on long-term costs.
Over the course of a lifetime, 11.5 million illegal immigrants granted amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits after paying just $3.1 trillion in taxes.”
Obamacare is killing health care, jobs and the economy (the real economy, not the fantasy press releases from the White House) driven by a biased media and now for the next two generations the costs of violating the law by the President is going to cost our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. It will be a Shame on American Taxpayers for allowing this to happen to our country.
Obama already has an executive order ready to go that will hand job robbers, freeloaders, criminals, gang members, drug addicts, drug cartels, murderers and rapists a ticket to freedom.
Check this site that has the phone Numbers and Mailing Addresses of Members of Congress contact them at: http://www.contactingthecongress to demand an end to illegal immigration, the dismantling of the Rule of laws, sovereignty, citizen rights and even our of abolition of our military top commanders, which is protection against our enemies foreign an domestic. Illegal Immigration is rapidly becoming the priority for Americans, because they see its impact on the bleak economy and lost jobs. TELL THESE SPINELESS DEMS & CONSERVATIVES THAT MANY WILL FALL IN 2016, IF THIS MINDLESS AMNESTY PASSES. This is the number for the central switchboard for every member of Congress to address your opposition at 800-224-3121. Also check the ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration’, NumbersUSA, Unipac and VDare.
Dave Francis • Nov 13, 2014 at 9:31 pm
YOU NEED TO RESPOND TO STOP THE OBAMA AMNESTY?
WITHOUT
YOUR HELP?
$9.000.000.000.000 dollars is the approximate cost of Obamas Amnesty.
Imperialist Obama the ‘First’ is back on amnesty with a vengeance, proclaiming it will boost the economy and shrink the deficit. Yet another lie and just like Obamacare, Benghazi and the VA scandal and all the other agencies that have deceived the American people, that are in collusion with the Oval Office. The monolithic sized government has already gorged itself on YOUR taxes to the amount of 7.000.000.000.000 in welfare giveaways and in many cronyism grants for green energy businesses, which finally went bankrupt. This inept administration is sitting on nearly $18.000.000.000.000 of piles of I.OU’s to foreign investors and the interest is growing forever larger each day.
If he gets his way 5 million plus illegal aliens will steal our jobs, drive down wages, crowd our children schools, daily commutes an incomprehensible nightmare and never ending welfare for “Anchor Babies”; Chain Migration will sponsor even more millions of people, brought to America to gorge on the US taxpayer. The Illegal Immigration invasion of millions already settled here, thanks to Obamas orders, only to “Catch and Release” which is already devastating the U.S. economy with their demand for government handouts. And, they’ll vote Democrats into office for the next several decades.
Foreign nationals are taking to the streets, demanding “No more deportations!” Obama’s reply, “If I could bypass Congress I would.”
BUT HE IS CIRCUMVENTING CONGRESS ANYWAY. The fact his imminent executive order that is ringing throughout South America and across the world is bringing more expectant mothers, families, minors and individual through any form of transportation possible. The limited numbers of immigration agents cannot hold back the flows, arriving at some of the most flimsy areas along the Southern border.
This President will disregard angry disapproval from the Conservatives and pronounce probably next week a extensive revamp of the nation’s immigration enforcement organism that will protect up to five million illegal aliens from the risk of deportation and grant many of them with work permits, according to government official who has direct comprehension of the agenda. Affirming his authority as an authoritarian with enforcement of this nation’s laws with overreaching his power of office, Barack Obama proposes to order changes that will extensively redeploy the actions of the government’s 12,000 immigration agents. One key piece of the classification, officials said, will permit many parents of children (who are American citizens or lawful residents) to attain legal work documents and no longer have agonize about being discovered by ICE agents and be separated from their families and deported.
That part of this Presidents scheme alone could influence as many as 3.3 million people who have been residing illegally in this sovereign country for at least five years. This analysis is according to the Migration Policy Institute, an immigration research organization in Washington. However, the White House is also reflecting on a stricter guideline that would limit the benefits to persons who have lived in the country for at least 10 years, or about 2.5 million people. Whatever the action this is a very dangerous move because the millions of illegal aliens emerging from the shadows will be standing on shifting quicksand. Meaning once the Congress changes over ridding from their seats Senator Harry Reid, and executive order could be reversed? The consequences could be round-ups, because ICE would be aware of their locations.
In a Report from the Heritage Foundation states:
The cost of an illegal alien receiving amnesty from Obama is not a short term cost. In fact it has been worked out that over 50 years the cost is more than $9 TRILLION for the five million would be legalizing. Barack Obama really wants to bankrupt our nation. Of course the five million illegal aliens he makes “legal” will also challenge five million honest Americans, Hispanics, blacks, men, women and youth for available low pay jobs.
“The average illegal immigrant is 34 years old. If he receives amnesty, he will receive government benefits for 50 years. Some amnesty proposals suggest restricting benefit access for the first 13 years after amnesty, but that limit would have little impact on long-term costs.
Over the course of a lifetime, 11.5 million illegal immigrants granted amnesty would receive $9.4 trillion in government benefits after paying just $3.1 trillion in taxes.”
Obamacare is killing health care, jobs and the economy (the real economy, not the fantasy press releases from the White House) driven by a biased media and now for the next two generations the costs of violating the law by the President is going to cost our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. It will be a Shame on American Taxpayers for allowing this to happen to our country.
Obama already has an executive order ready to go that will hand job robbers, freeloaders, criminals, gang members, drug addicts, drug cartels, murderers and rapists a ticket to freedom.
Check this site that has the phone Numbers and Mailing Addresses of Members of Congress contact them at: http://www.contactingthecongress to demand an end to illegal immigration, the dismantling of the Rule of laws, sovereignty, citizen rights and even our of abolition of our military top commanders, which is protection against our enemies foreign an domestic. Illegal Immigration is rapidly becoming the priority for Americans, because they see its impact on the bleak economy and lost jobs. TELL THESE SPINELESS DEMS & CONSERVATIVES THAT MANY WILL FALL IN 2016, IF THIS MINDLESS AMNESTY PASSES. This is the number for the central switchboard for every member of Congress to address your opposition at 800-224-3121. Also check the ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration’, NumbersUSA, Unipac and VDare.