If Biden is inagurated in January of 2021, how long will it be until the GOP leadership

[guillaumeb]

speaks about the crucial need to do something about the enormous deficit?

And, how much of the US corporate media will join in that chorus and demand of Biden, and the Democrats who control the Senate and the House, that the deficit simply must be dealt with?


Every time that the GOP is in charge, between tax cuts for the rich and unnecessary and unfunded wars, the deficit and the debt are enormously high, yet the GOP and the US media behave as if the GOP is a functioning, competent Party that specializes in fiscal responsibility.

[DFW]

1. Are fractions of a minute allowed? n/t

[guillaumeb]

2. Well noted.

Estimates in milliseconds are allowed.

[DFW]

6. In that case

I'll take a few of those. Single digits will do, as the statements will have been prepared long before the polls close on election day.

[guillaumeb]

9. With luck, this will not concern lame duck GOP Congressmembers.

And with luck, many will be lame ducks.

[DFW]

18. About six Republican Senators would do nicely

Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina, Maine, Kentucky, Iowa and Georgia come to mind, though we probably won't win them all. For us, Alabama looks bad, and they will pour money into Michigan and New Hampshire, hoping for one of those "surprise upsets" their voting machines always seem to produce for them (and never for us). Luckily, Trump is doing his level best to drag his Republican friends (if he still has any by November) down with him. Here's hoping he keeps it up.

[guillaumeb]

31. Yes. the "surprise upsets" factor. eom

[DFW]

33. Funny thing about those Surprise Upsets

They always seem to occur in states where electronic voting machines are used heavily, and they NEVER seem to go our way.

Pure coincidence, of course, a Republican told me so...........

[guillaumeb]

40. Coincidences such as these take a lot of work. eom

[beachbumbob]

3. It will begin Nov 4, 2020

[guillaumeb]

4. Early, but acceptable. eom

[Caliman73]

11. Not early at all.

The minute a Democratic President is elected, the GOP will start to make noise about spending and "the future of our children" GUARANTEED. They will start trying to frame it as soon as the results are announced.

[guillaumeb]

12. That has been the pattern ever since Reagan exploded the deficit and debt.

And the US corporate media generally accepts this at face value.

[Brother Mythos]

39. You beat me too it. We will definitely not have to wait until Inauguration Day.

[Walleye]

5. 12:05 January 20th. Count on it.

[guillaumeb]

7. If not earlier. eom

[Walleye]

13. I was at the Obama inauguration in 2008.

I still remember the cheers from the crowd when the helicopter took Bush out of the White House

[guillaumeb]

14. Understood.

And Trump makes Bush Jr. seem intelligent and semi-competent.

[Walleye]

17. There will be champagne flowing down Pa. Av.

Like the clubhouse of a team that just won the World Series

[guillaumeb]

19. Agreed. eom

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Check the owners of the now-consolidated M$M.

Massacre Mitch has already floated a trial balloon with his statements about blue state bankruptcy.

[guillaumeb]

10. And there has been pushback even from his fellow GOP crooks. eom

[tritsofme]

15. McConnell is already laying the groundwork.

They will no doubt try to sabotage Biden just as they did Obama.

[guillaumeb]

20. With luck McConnell will be doing so outside of Congress.

He is worse than Trump, in my view.

[rufus dog]

16. Already started and will ramp up in the fall and hit a fever pitch if he wins. Other thing....

All repukes and the media will be calling out he needs to reach across the aisle, work together with Repukes. Time to put the Country back together. The media will be all over it, "who should he appoint to his cabinet from across the aisle.

The proper response should be, shut the fuck up, you (media and repukes) stayed silent while the Orange ShitStain ripped apart the Country, he tweeted obnoxious shit almost daily, and you said fucking nothing. Sit down and shut up you anti American fucking tool.

[guillaumeb]

21. Agreed in full.

The same thing was said when Obama won, about the necessity of reaching out, and compromising.

[Skittles]

22. immediately

they'll also be all PRO-LIFE again and blame Biden for any coronavirus deaths

[guillaumeb]

27. Pro-life...

or pro-birth?

[Skittles]

32. they are actually neither

they're just anti-women

[sheshe2]

23. I believe...

I believe by 01/2021 we will have such an overwhelming number of dead Americans, lying in mass graves, in refrigerator trucks. or just left rotting in a uhaul outside a funeral home ( read that tonight) that the economy will NOT BE THE CENTRAL ISSUE.

I think this whole thing is no longer under GOP control. The dead have won the day and the GOP may go rot in hell. They did this and they all have American blood on their hands.

I will never forgive one of them for this.

[guillaumeb]

28. I understand your position.

The GOP made a person like Trump inevitable. With their anti-science, anti-reality base, and their open racism, Trump was, and is, their ideal candidate.

But he is so incompetent that no one can fix that.

[Bettie]

24. 2.3 Seconds

because Moscow Mitch has to clear his throat before speaking.

[McCamy Taylor]

25. We are entering a Depression. It will be all about the bailout

and fuck the deficit.

[guillaumeb]

29. But if Biden wins, that will change.

Deficit reduction at the expense of the bottom 90% will be the GOP plan.

[jimlup]

26. Oh I suspect they will Trump up" some impeachment charges... and worse

The Rethugs have not a shred of integrity and see the world only one way.

[guillaumeb]

30. With work, we can have Democratic control of Congress and the Presidency.

The GOP can have their hearings at Mar-a-Lago.

[jimlup]

38. Exactly!

[budkin]

34. Election night

Or earlier.

[ooky]

35. When they do - suggest first to roll back the "tax cut". nt

[safeinOhio]

36. I can think of tax reform that

help grant them their wish. Not that they’d be happy.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

37. Their Lizard Brains Will Only Be Thinking "Revenge," So They're Going To Start Talking Impeachment

Over what, who knows? I'm sure they'll make up something between now and then. But in their simplistic way of thinking, their one and only priority will be to get revenge for impeaching Trump, so they're going to do everything they can to impeach Biden. If they were still in the majority, those Articles of Impeachment would be filed the day after the inauguration (just like they would have done had Hillary actually taken office).