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In reply to the discussion: Thought experiment: Would President Warren actually have any different results than Obama [View all]JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)She'd have talked the GOP into a larger stimulus ... gotten Lieberman and the blue dogs to support Nationalized health care ...
Then ... she'd have had the DOJ throwing bankers off of roof tops ... she'd have talked Boehner and the tea Party into a $20 minimum wage and forgiven all mortgage debt. The Tea Party then disbands.
And just the first 100 days.
At her first state of the Union, a GOP house member would have yelled "YOU ROCK!" and justice Sam Alito would have been the first Supreme court member ever to do cartwheels up and down one of the aisles, in her honor. Scalia attends, and gives Warren a high five on her way out.
She proposes and passes legislation making college free, and also requiring marajuana dispensing machines on every other floor in college dorms.
To make up for prior damages, being gay now gets you a large tax break.
In her second year, all oil drilling in the US would have stopped because by that time, all homes and businesses in the US would be powered by what would be forever after known as the Warren Solar Highway ... its based on an energy distribution system she invented in the White House basement.
Energy is now free, and cars actually run on rainbows.
Putin and other world leaders would be so thrilled with her, that they'd get the troubling makers in the Middle East to lay down their arms, and plant flowers. Israel and the Palestinians, would suddenly declare peace on President Warren's birthday, as a gift to her.
By year three, Dennis Rodman has moved to North Korea for good, and he's taken the Kardasheans with him. Reality TV and football end.
Her election to a second term being a mere formality ... she declares and end to capitalism. No one is upset because everything is pretty much free now anyway. The white picket fence industry would be booming if there were still industries.
Midway through her second term, at what is usually the start of a President's lame duck period, in a not too surprising move, the GOP lead House and Senate pass a law making Warren US President for life. As one would expect, Warren objects to this, and takes the issue all the way to the supreme court.
They rule unanimously against her ... she humbly accepts the honor.
In response, as her gift to the American people, she declares that Social Security benefits will now begin at conception.
And there is much rejoicing.
On Edit: None of that would have happened. What would have happened is she'd have made some compromise early on or picked some one that the high priests of liberalism didn't like to be in her administration, and she'd have been thrown under the bus before Al Franken was seated.