Which would you prefer?

[kentuck]

A Democratic House and Senate with a Republican in the White House?

Or a Republican House and Senate with a Democrat in the White House?

Would a Democrat Executive with a Democratic Senate be considered the will of the people?

[Warpy]

1. Gridlock is gridlock

but I'd rather see a Democratic CiC who was willing to veto the outrageous excesses of right wing Republican legislation. We'd get into fewer wars we can't win along with ending up fewer bad laws. Then there's the Supreme Court to consider.

[kentuck]

2. That is true.

Even if the Democrats were to win 59 Senate seat majority, Mitch McConnell would still use the 60-vote rule to contest every vote, including those for Supreme Court justices, I would think?

[Warpy]

3. You bet, unless they manage to eject him for refusing to do his job.

A Republican majority won't. A Democratic majority will try to find a way.

[kentuck]

4. The people have to decide whether they still want gridlock or not?

They must make the Republicans pay if they want our government to work for the people.

[Warpy]

5. The people generally prefer gridlock

on the theory that neither party gets to make all the rules.

The 3 branch control during Stupid's misadministration was a fluke.

[busterbrown]

6. Obama certainly had a short stay with this majority..

Plus we had a host of asshole Dems in Congress..resisting any progressive moves Obama suggested..for that period.. Was it 6 months?

[kentuck]

7. However, it seems to me...

that, in the past, the Party that was elected with a majority of votes in the most recent election, has usually been given some latitude in their political agenda, and that the strategy of blocking everything the opposing majority Party proposes, is mostly a recent development.

[Warpy]

8. Goldwater warned us

that when the religious right crazies got a majority, there would be no compromise with them, ever.

That's what has happened. I don't know if people are waking up to this while the country crumbles around them or if they still think in the old patterns of compromise between adversaries resulting in the best legislation. That's what will determine the outcome of the next several election cycles.

[kentuck]

9. Good point.

If you point out that Donald Trump is "crazy", his opponents just laugh and say, " but look at the alternative..."