Cornyn predicts GOP majority will take two cycles

[one_voice]

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted on Sunday that the GOP will make gains in November’s midterm elections but efforts to overtake Democrats may take two election cycles.

“If everything goes our way, I can see a pathway there,” Cornyn said on "Fox News Sunday." “Realistically, I think it’ll be a two-cycle effort.”

But Cornyn said Republican gains in the House and Senate will push President Barack Obama to take more centrist positions on issues after the election. He drew connections between this election and GOP gains in the 1990s during President Bill Clinton's administration.

“It can force President Obama to the middle as it did with President Clinton,” Cornyn said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0810/Cornyn_predicts_GOP_majority_will_take_two_cycles.html?showall

[Bluebear]

1. “It can force President Obama to the middle" - OFFS

[one_voice]

4. Yeah...

I thought the same thing. But you know they can't stop calling him a "radical leftist" at this point. They have to stay on message.

[notesdev]

10. Only one thing in the middle of the road...

... roadkill

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Yellow stripes & dead skunks.

To slightly rephrase Jim Hightower

[Parche]

2. not if they keep going like they are

:hi:

[one_voice]

12. Indeed...

and it looks like they're pulling the "terrorist/Muslim/Islam fear card" again. They've used 9/11 at every opportunity. They continue to say Republicans keep you safe Democrats don't. Yet 9/11 happened on Bush's watch. They argue it was actually Clinton that caused it :crazy: Yet, less than two years after Bush is out of office they say you can't blame him for the economy. WTF?

This economy has hurt Americans in a horrible way. Jobs lost, houses lost, retirements lost, etc. What's happened to our economy is terror, and they caused it.

Dems should push this over and over again. They don't need to even say Bushs' name, use what the Republicans have done for the last 18 months to prove their point.

As far as I'm concerned they own everything from the last 10 years, 9/11, the economy, unemployment, the oil gusher, those that are still suffering as a result of Katrina and so on.

They shouldn't get a pass, they're supposed to be the party of personal responsibility, they need to own what they did.

edited to add:

:hi:

[DFLforever]

3. What this tells me is he knows they won't win the Senate

and isn't certain about the House either.

[tridim]

5. Translation, they are scared.

Because the Dem campaign hasn't even started yet, and our ammo against them is devastating.

[OHdem10]

6. Middle my foot.-- He means pull him way over on the Right.

Wvery policy passed so far has been right of Center.

For example:

Single Payer would have been CENTER LEFT (real Democratic bill)

Public Option would have been Just Left of Center (Moderate Dem.)

The bill we got is a Right of Center bill. Insurance Based, busines
Republican Bill. Eerily similar to the Bob Dole Bill back when
he ran for Pres. against Clinton.

You can go through each policy and it works out the same

The Republicans have apparently convinced the Media and
Powers that be ---Center to them is Center Right to Far Right.

For the last eight years they pushed so far right they do not
recognize the Center.

[GrantDem]

7. +1

"For the last eight years they pushed so far right they do not recognize the Center. "

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. The Internals for both must be fascinating

serious.

We first see the WH trying to make up for Gibbs, little, ahem gem

And now Cornyn saying don't expect a miracle...

Hmmm

What is one to think?

[onehandle]

9. How do they ever expect to capture any majority now that they are done with Hispanics?

Fox viewers and tearacists are dying out.

Good luck with that.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. To say nothing of the Latino vote

..oh, wait.....no one explained that to Michael Steele.

[DavidDvorkin]

11. They only have one cycle to do it

They won't pick up seats when Obama is running for reelection.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. Yes, two. First is brain wash each other, the other to hang themselves out to dry.

[Imajika]

15. This is called lowering expectations...

Cornyn knows expectations were getting so high that if the GOP didn't win the House and get really close in the Senate that 2010 would have been viewed as a failure for Republicans.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. "push President Barack Obama to take more centrist positions"

it has to be said: so that would move this administration to the left.

Jokes aside, and that was a joke, I predict another vast sea change in voter opinion two years from now, particularly if one or both houses actually flip to the shittier half of our shit sandwich of a congress. These gentle-people from the party of no are not well behaved at all when they have a chamber and a sitting Democratic president and the voters routinely punish them the next chance they get.

[spanone]

17. he's dreaming

[Andy823]

18. Well he pretty much has to say that!

It's the same thing Rove said back in 2006, and in 2008! They have to say this stuff, even if it makes no sense! Now granted they will pick up a few seats, some will only be DINO's they pick off so it won't make a lot of difference, but they have pissed off the unemployed, Latinos, single mothers, teachers, police, firemen, Muslims, and anyone with any sense at all with their NO votes on everything! Sure they get some polls with a majority of right wingers in them that say they are liked better, but most polls have them at their lowest ratings ever, democrats are at least a bit higher, and most polls that ask who do you trust to get us out of this mess, pick democrats and the president! Of course the MSM doesn't seem to really put those polls on TV very much!

Now there seem to be polls coming out saying the independents are not happy with Obama, but a lot of people who voted republican are now calling themselves "independents", as are the teabaggers, and all the crazies that listen to Beck! Sure the democrats could lose big if they don't take action and get in the first punch and keep on punching till election day, but as has been mentioned many times on the board, the republicans are making it pretty easy to use their gaffs, hate, and stupidity against them, the democrats just need to not let them on the offense, keep the defending themselves against all the stupid things they have said and done, and let them destroy themselves! Make them explain their remarks and actions, give them hell!

[rury]

21. Maybe I'm overly optimistic

but I think the Democrats will hold fast to what we have and maybe gain a few seats in the Senate.
And I think the polls will start showing that after Labor Day.

[w8liftinglady]

20. let me share some Cornyn wisdom..from MY paper

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has introduced the Economic Growth & Jobs Protection Act of 2010, legislation that would repeal the harmful tax on investment income that was included in the Democrats’ health care law. Sen. Cornyn’s bill is cosponsored by Sens. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and Pat Roberts, R-Kansas. During debate on the Health Care Reconciliation Act in March 2010, Sen. Cornyn offered an amendment to remove the 3.8 percent tax on the savings and investments earned by certain taxpayers on a variety of investments, but the measure was defeated and the new investment tax remained in the bill, which was ultimately signed into law.


and

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Republican Leadership, Tuesday spoke on the floor in opposition to the partisan DISCLOSE Act. Below is an excerpt, as well as the full text of his remarks, as prepared for delivery:

“This bill represents another attempt by my colleagues to rush through legislation that restricts freedom and creates more federal regulation, without giving the American people the opportunity to understand what it does,” Sen. Cornyn said. “This bill would silence critics of the majority party and protect some of their closest allies and special interests

[hobbit709]

22. Is the post turtle flapping his jaws again?