What would happen to the progressive agenda if a republican is elected President in 2012?

Will immigrants have any chance of advancing their agenda?
Will unions be totally stripped of what little power they have?
Will the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq have any chance of coming home?
Will oil drilling triple off shore of the United States?
Will environmentalists see efforts to protect sensitive eco systems?
Will healthcare reforms survive?
Will the legislation that Obama pushed for the underserved disappear?
Will the chronic complainers about the Obama administration have a platform and will anyone listen?
Will medicare be phased out?
Will big banks continue their reign?
Will we be respected by our foreign neighbors?
Will waterboarding restart?
So many questions, so little time.

up/down, good/bad, ugly/pretty . . . :eyes:

:hi:

If you can't reign in your hatred of Obama, look at it this way

- We need the House back. Pelosi house put out some damn good legislation
- We need a STRONG majority in the Senate, a solid 60 votes, rather than having to hope for the best with Liebermann style pols
- SCOTUS SCOTUS SCOTU

It has no political power.

and you could be sure that Republicans would move quickly to impose their agenda. Need 60 votes in the Senate? No problem because Republicans would nuke that even if Democrats are afraid. Ultimately they know their time is short so they will do all they can do to line the pockets of the wealthy and eviscerate as many social programs as possible.

would likely be the same in all instances and very disappointing to most of the radicals and very incompetent to deal with the financial pig trough remaining to plunder. The dumber and more incompetent the President however, the worse everything will turn out. Anyone who tries to dominate the powers beneath him will equally be in trouble and cause massive dysfunctions. The media will try to support any madness they come up with.

The GOP candidates have to have basic permission from the gray eminences or they will be allowed to lose if they somehow bust up primary plans. The GOP candidates have to be nuts enough to think they can win or that losing with huge campaign debts and no future is acceptable. Most of them, all the semi-sane ones, are withdrawing simply because of the money tide that are withdrawing with their heads buried in the sand should they remain in play when it rolls back in over them.
Maybe Romney the Rich is thick enough to sustain the fear, a preferred stalking horse for the eventual return of the preferred players. Maybe he won't even have to do credit card and Viagra commercials when he gets whupped.

Only if something drastic happens to Obama will the real maggots come out from under their logs.

embracing Ryan plan, etc

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x676614

there is a possibility that in four years, the
populace will again try to elect a PROGRESSIVE
candidate, just like when we elected Obama over
Clinton and McCain.

Maybe next time, we won't get a "New Dem" in
disguise.

Lots of possibilities.

The last time there was a progressive agenda, LBJ was in the White House:)

This is where we get killed. Hate or be disappointed in Obama all you want but his two appointees thus far appear to be true progressives.

solid majority in the Senate - with 60 REAL votes we can count on rather than having to depend on Joe Liebermann types.

We've lost the courts for a generation unless a few of them have strokes or something.

They don't care one bit about any of those things if they're not being done at the pace or the exact specifications dictated by the blogosphere.

as well as the House?

I think Obama will win easily, but the Senate is in play.