A tea-party president scenario

I would expect the usual increase in the size of government. As of right now the only tea-party person I would trust is Gary Johnson.
 
What attempt at socialized medicine? The public option didn't even make it out of committee, and single payer (which still isn't socialized) wasn't even discussed in committee.

Bu-but-but that's not what Fox news told me....:mischief:
But in all seriousness I only meant it was a step in that direction, and if that trend continues we could have socialized health care, and socialized other things in the not so distant future.
 
It would be the best thing that could happen to the USA. Our great country would go back to its core values.
 
You have more than a year of unemployment benefits, what more do you want?

Its not the government's job to pay for your living, its your job.

Of course for most people here, conservative legislation is radical.
 
Yes, it would be terrible if we abandoned the "only the rich deserve care" system.

Yes because all conservatives are rich, and all who are rich are evil, and us rich evil conservatives wish to oppress the peasantry!:mwaha:
Seriously? Is this how liberals view conservatives? Our system needs some changing no doubt about it but I don't trust the government to make health care decisions for me and I hope it never comes to that.
 
Yes because all conservatives are rich, and all who are rich are evil, and us rich evil conservatives wish to oppress the peasantry!:mwaha:
Well, you are called Evil Abe ;)
Seriously? Is this how liberals view conservatives? Our system needs some changing no doubt about it but I don't trust the government to make health care decisions for me and I hope it never comes to that.
Yes, because all liberals think alike, and all consider conservatives evil, etc etc etc. :D

Why pose it as "the government to make health care decisions for me"? What health care decisions are you referring to?
 
The deficit would explode as they cut all sorts of taxes without cutting spending. Regulations would be slashed, and the private sector would go on a fraud and pollution spree. Education would deteriorate further. The American Dream would die further.
 
I think it would be awesome.

You know how Obama totally failed on Gitmo? Once in office, he realised that he couldn't really shut things down? Well, imagine that, but for multi-trillions of dollars in the economy.

Baby-boomers have spent their entire lives paying into SS. There's no way that they'd put up with reducing their benefits. No, they're going to want full benefits. And the Baby Echo generation is going to pick up the tab. No SS for you! But you have to pay for the Baby-Boomers. So, the Republicans aren't going to abide by the wishes of the Tea Party.

And medicare? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that insurance premiums, as high as they are, already factor in medicare. IF they pass liberalisation of healthcare insurance, I'd buy we invest our foreign dollars so that we can milk American consumers. We'll open shell companies that they can pay premiums to, and then we'll shuttle the money away before actual compensation is needed.

And the overwhelming vilification of government employees will be epic. The government will be painted as completely incompetent. The wages going to gov't employees will drop, and the status will drop even further. Good luck recruiting competent bureaucrats. Remember I said I'd invest in medical insurance companies? Yeah. Big time. Try to stop me.

So, we'll see no real change for the big costs. The debt cannot be brought down through Tea Party policies, and real Republicans won't be able to build a proper debt reduction system. Foreign investment in natural resources is going to go way up, because we'll except a huge drop in the wages of American workers and liberalisation of environmental laws in order to attract even more foreign investment. Oh, and thanks for the dropped tax rates.

The problem with the Tea Party is like Obama's problem with Pakistan. They actually don't have a viable plan, and it's too easy to screw things up even more. But, unlike with Pakistan, we're talking about a problem that can run over a trillion dollars a year.
 
You know what would happen?

Meet the new Boss
Same as the Old Boss
 
The republicans would try to vote down filibuster powers, and if successful, they would be able to do as they please.

I don't think that would succeed though, thus, gridlock until the midterms.
 
Problem with that is that the new boss in this case would have half the brains and sense of GW Bush.
The American political system is so hedged in with checks and balances the scope for any sort of radical departure from the same, centre-right social development as has characterised the country for several generations is very, very difficult. Obama is a classic case. The man wanted to entirely rip up the play book on health care and has been stymied at every turn. So much so that it's hard to see what real benefits accrue from the bill he's managed to pass o nthe matter.

The Tea Party would go in all guns blazing and come up against precisely the same wall that BO's hit. And in kicking against it they'd probably antoagonie half the people who voted for them first day.
 
It would be the best thing that could happen to the USA. Our great country would go back to its core values.
I disagree, its the worst thing that is going to happen to the US and the only values that are being brought to the table is "pamper the rich, screw the poor".

We need a socialist revolution sometime soon.

At least the Senate is still held by the Democrats and Obama can swiftly burn any Republican Crap Legislation with a veto. So any nonsense wars that the Republicans waged during the Bush Administration would be steamed.
 
40 year plan:

The Tea Party Patriots, one of the the largest Tea Party umbrella organizations, with over 1,000 local chapters, hosted a press conference this morning to offer its reactions to last night’s elections and its vision going forward.

Co-founder Mark Meckler tried to pre-empt expectations among the faithful that Washington would shrink and the federal deficit would close overnight, instead alluding to a “forty-year plan” that the group was busy working out with its members. The plan, according to Meckler, was a highway with four lanes, only one of which was explicitly political. The other three were educational, judicial and cultural.

“All civilizations and empires have fallen because their cultures became decadent,” Meckler said. “We need to lift up conservative culture, family values and wholesome things by supporting conservative musicians, writers, artists and producers.”
http://washingtonindependent.com/102482/tea-party-patriots-lay-claim-to-the-political-center-in-debates-to-come
 
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