Take your blinders off: This is why the Koch Brothers and Radical
Right groups will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the 2014
mid-term elections, why Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants to raise $100 million to get re-elected — and how you can defeat them.
If the tea party-GOP gains control of the U.S. Senate, Sen. Rand Paul,
who's against all foreign aid (including any to Israel), could become
chair of the Foreign Relations Committee; "Bomb, Bomb Iran" Sen. John McCain, who's itching to send U.S. soldiers into the Middle East, could head the Armed Services Committee. And how does Sen. Ted Cruz becoming chair of the Judiciary Committee grab you, so we get more Supreme Court justices like Scalia, Roberts, and Alito?
In addition, if Republicans control both houses of Congress, expect a flurry of its priority legislation to emerge: turning Medicare into a voucher program so enrollees are thrown on the open insurance market; privatizing Social Security so participants' funds are subject to the insecurity of the stock market; repealing Obamacare, including key benefits, like not being able to be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition; reducing or ending corporate taxes; increasing taxes on the middle class; proposing Constitutional Amendments banning abortion and same-sex marriage.
And, of course, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate and keeping its majority in the House, it's guaranteed they will impeach President Obama and hold a trial in the Senate. They won't get enough votes to convict him, but they will destroy him politically.
If Republicans maintain or increase their power in state governments nationwide, things will be as bad, or worse, than they'll be in Washington, D.C. Think Rick Scott's disastrous years in office multiplied. And, ask yourself, if he raises $100 million to get re-elected, what payback will his contributors expect — and dollarwise what's in it for him?
In fact, November 2014 is just a dress rehearsal for the 2016 Presidential election. If the GOP radicals win both houses of Congress, they will use Democrats' thwarting their agenda to fire up their base to retake the White House and spend even more money in two years.
If enough voters take their blinders off, turn-out can trump billionaire's dollars; otherwise, prepare to pledge allegiance to the Kochs.
Read more: Stephen Goldstein: Radical right going full bore for big gains in mid-terms - Sun Sentinel
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In addition, if Republicans control both houses of Congress, expect a flurry of its priority legislation to emerge: turning Medicare into a voucher program so enrollees are thrown on the open insurance market; privatizing Social Security so participants' funds are subject to the insecurity of the stock market; repealing Obamacare, including key benefits, like not being able to be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition; reducing or ending corporate taxes; increasing taxes on the middle class; proposing Constitutional Amendments banning abortion and same-sex marriage.
And, of course, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate and keeping its majority in the House, it's guaranteed they will impeach President Obama and hold a trial in the Senate. They won't get enough votes to convict him, but they will destroy him politically.
If Republicans maintain or increase their power in state governments nationwide, things will be as bad, or worse, than they'll be in Washington, D.C. Think Rick Scott's disastrous years in office multiplied. And, ask yourself, if he raises $100 million to get re-elected, what payback will his contributors expect — and dollarwise what's in it for him?
In fact, November 2014 is just a dress rehearsal for the 2016 Presidential election. If the GOP radicals win both houses of Congress, they will use Democrats' thwarting their agenda to fire up their base to retake the White House and spend even more money in two years.
If enough voters take their blinders off, turn-out can trump billionaire's dollars; otherwise, prepare to pledge allegiance to the Kochs.
Read more: Stephen Goldstein: Radical right going full bore for big gains in mid-terms - Sun Sentinel
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