Is gridlock coming? (Congress, Obama, speech, rating)

[Redrover]

Do many / most of you believe that there is about to be congressional gridlock with a Republican-controlled house and a Democrat-controlled senate? I tend to think that some of those dems in the senate may be thinking that they want to distance themselves from Obama in the eyes of their constituants and will be much more amenable to siding with the Republicans. Thoughts?

[florida.bob]

Very little doubt. There is no political advantage to the Repubs to actually work with the Dems. Their objective is the WH and majorities in both houses, no other objective.

[mb1547]

The blue dog dems who might have worked with the R's are gone, and the R's have zero interest in compromise of any kind. Sounds like gridlock to me...

[AksarbeN]

The past two years has been congressional gridlock, nothing will change.

[sindey]

Originally Posted by florida.bob

Very little doubt. There is no political advantage to the Repubs to actually work with the Dems. Their objective is the WH and majorities in both houses, no other objective.

Agreed! It will be politics as usual with both sides playing their tired childish games. Not much will be accomplished & if anything does get done, if it is not positive for the country as a whole, both parties will just blame one another.

[TempesT68]

It will be tough to say. Mitch Mcconnell has made it clear his #1 objective is to take Obama out which is very childish. It's looking like the republicans are going to try and do everything they possibly can to cause havoc in the white house, and continue to do so for years to come until they get full control of the senate and presidency. The dems though are still calling the shots and i hope they put the right in their place with filibusters and vetos like this country has never seen, though from the president's speech yesterday it looks like Obama hasn't learned his lesson from reaching across the isle and will roll over again to the republicans.

[florida.bob]

Originally Posted by mb1547

The blue dog dems who might have worked with the R's are gone, and the R's have zero interest in compromise of any kind. Sounds like gridlock to me...

That's what we voted for, now we got it, enjoy.

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

The past two years has been congressional gridlock, nothing will change.

Gridlock is good. You can't reverse a runaway train until you finally get it stopped.

[kevinm]

Originally Posted by TempesT68

It will be tough to say. Mitch Mcconnell has made it clear his #1 objective is to take Obama out which is very childish. It's looking like the republicans are going to try and do everything they possibly can to cause havoc in the white house, and continue to do so for years to come until they get full control of the senate and presidency. The dems though are still calling the shots and i hope they put the right in their place with filibusters and vetos like this country has never seen, though from the president's speech yesterday it looks like Obama hasn't learned his lesson from reaching across the isle and will roll over again to the republicans.

So the Democrats will be obstructing the REAL "will of the people"?

[florida.bob]

Mitch McConnell is right now reiterating the Repub objective. No Bama, nothing, not you, not me, nothing else matters to them. They do not care about jobs, debt, nothing else. Get that thru your heads.