If the Democrats lose Congress in Nov

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45. Don't know about that. Remember the meme being used that both parties are the same:

A GOP Senate's First Target - Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Protection Agency

For years, House Republicans have been trying to gut her greatest accomplishment.

By Erika Eichelberger - Sep. 26, 2014



If the GOP wins the Senate, they'll no doubt use the opportunity to push through a range of measures that are kryptonite to Democratic voters - new abortion restrictions, limits on the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to combat climate change, a relaxation of the rules reining in Wall Street's worst excesses...

Half of their work is already done. The House has passed a bill that would limit the bureau's power by replacing its director with a five-member panel, and subjecting its budget to the congressional appropriations process—meaning that hostile lawmakers could starve it to death. (Unlike most federal agencies, the bureau is bankrolled by the Federal Reserve, an effort to free it from the whims of partisan politics.) House Republicans have also introduced legislation to let other financial regulators overturn CFPB rules, to eliminate a fund the bureau uses to compensate consumers who've been defrauded by an institution that's gone belly-up, and to restrict the kind of data the bureau may collect from consumers. (Republicans have charged that the CFPB's collection of credit data is a violation of privacy, even though the bureau does not collect any personal details the consumer doesn't volunteer.)...

A Republican-controlled Senate would also likely try to eviscerate portions of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act. In 2011, Shelby introduced a bill to beef up the requirements that force banking regulators to conduct cost-benefit analyses prior to issuing any new rule - a significant hurdle. Last year, the House passed a handful of bills to deregulate derivatives, often-opaque banking products that have been demonized as "financial weapons of mass destruction." In June, House Republicans passed a bill chipping away at consumer mortgage protections..

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/republican-senate-would-gut-elizabeth-warren-consumer-protection-bureau

Many say voting doesn't matter. It didn't matter to some in 2010, and it won't matter this year. And it's pretty pervasive.

The media attacks are on the Dems, not the GOP. I don't know anyone IRL who disdains the Dems a as much as some here, but they have to be like that IRL wherever they are and they are discouraging other from voting daily.

If we lose the Senate, we're done. Just flat done. That article says it all.

I will prepare for the worst, this GOP is not like any other we've seen. They will do these things and starve the government until it's helpless. No one seems to care so I guess it won't hurt them when all of thise reactionary stuff finishes the USA off. And not for something better.

Some in media love Sanders and Warren, but they won't give them the tools to work with unless people vote. I just don't see it happening.