STAR/TRIBUNEBy CALVIN WOODWARD , Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Republicans drew on the support of independents and the energy of tea party activists to fashion a resounding victory in the House in midterm elections, increased their strength in the Senate and quickly served notice they intend to challenge President Barack Obama with a conservative approach to the economy.
"We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and to commit to making changes they are demanding," Ohio Rep. John Boehner, the House speaker-in-waiting, told cheering partisans as GOP gains mounted Tuesday night.
Obama called Boehner to offer congratulations, and also telephoned Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and top Democrats in a series of conversations that reflected the shifting balance of power.
The Republican leaders penciled in a late-morning news conference, to be followed a short while later by Obama's own meeting with reporters at the White House.
But with the economy still struggling to shake off the effects of the worse recession in decades, the Federal Reserve was expected to unveil a new program designed to further lower interest rates on mortgages and other loans. The hope is that would eventually prompt companies to step up hiring and create new jobs.
Incomplete returns showed the GOP picked up at least 60 House seats — the biggest party turnover in more than 70 years — and led for four more, far in excess of what was needed for a majority. About two dozen races remained too close to call.
On their night of triumph, Republicans also gained at least six Senate seats, and tea party favorites Rand Paul in Kentucky, Mike Lee in Utah and Marco Rubio in Florida were among their winners.
Not all the tea party insurgents won. Christine O'Donnell lost badly in Delaware, for a seat that Republican strategists once calculated would be theirs with ease. And in Nevada, Majority Leader Harry Reid dispatched Sharron Angle in an especially costly and brutal campaign in a year filled with them.
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I think a little change of hands was needed. I know of very few people who agreed Nancy Peloski's and Obama's healthcare proposals. I hope we see some real changes made this second semester.
ReplyDeleteAmerica runs in Democracy. The power is from the people who are governed. They can participate if they think something should be done for their country. I think the result of this midterm election have showed that people want their presidents what they wanted him to consider about. I hope this election can make the president to realize that people will participate to speak what they think.
ReplyDeleteCody Heppner:
ReplyDeleteI think it was good that republicans got in... because we needed a change... i would feel the same way if it was controlled by the republicans and the democrats got elected in... the economy has not been doin well so it was time for change... hopefully things start to brighten up in the near future!
I agree with Cody. When the government starts doing the wrong things, all we can really do is change the people making the decisions, which is what the U.S population did this time. I think the country did a very good job in selecting the new Senators and Representatives.
ReplyDeleteI am happy to see "my boys" in the house. Now I'm not just saying that because I'm conservative, but because of the extremes that were obtained in passing the health care bill.
ReplyDelete1.) Cornhusker Kickback; this was a promise to give the state of Nebraska 100% medicaid support for an indefinate amount of time. This was done to secure Ben Nelson's vote. His vote would have been #60 vote which would be enough to override the republican filibuster.
2.) The health care reform also has a few things that concern me
First; being a fine for companies who have 50+ employees and do not insure them. This is only a $2,000 fine.(still not getting it?) My family is insured under Polaris. Polaris spends $9,000 annually per employee for health insurance. If Polaris decides to pay the fine & pocket $7,000 instead of insuring it's employees, well..... (we can only speculate).
Second; being that the federal government has taken over student loans. so now if you need to take out a loan for college, you don't have the option of choosing your loan provider and the interest you will be paying goes to pay for the health care reform.
Third; the government never opted to put in anything about negotiating pharmecuticals pricing. (example; the government provides drugs for Medicare, Medicaid & V.A., now why wouldn't the want to get the best price they could on these drugs?)
In closing, the democrats pushed this bill through using under-handed tricks and in doing so left out key components just to secure the votes of other democrats.
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charlie:
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, with all the economical crisis and that stuff, the US needs to spend more money in the economy to make it work, and I dont know if republicans can make this work.
Nevertheless, the actual government is not doing a job anyways, so a big change like this could make a possitive difference
Obviously our country isn't doing the greatest, I think it was definitely time for a change.Hopefully the Rebuplicans will have a positive influence on our country and getting it back in good shape.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, it's great that the Republicans got in! I personally don't like Obama's policies and the things he believes in and whatever else. I think that if we want a change then hopefully Obama will listen to us and what we want because we are a democracy.
ReplyDeleteI think that if the Republicans and the democrats should stop the "fight" and begin to work for a better country, because that`s the only way that the U.S. is going to have a good economy again...
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