Alan: Hillary's Presidency means a liberal Supreme Court for the next 25 years.
Alienation of women and minorities means both houses go Democratic within a decade.
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CHAIT: Do Republicans want President Hillary Clinton? "A party that began the Congressional term hoping to move left from Mitt Romney’s immigration stance has instead moved toward Michele Bachmann’s. (Bachmann...pronounces herself thrilled.) The party’s new dogma will potentially entangle its next nominee in an even less humane debate than the one that ensnared Romney....It is understandable that the party's Congressional wing, based mostly in safe, deep-red districts, has failed to craft a national strategy for its 2016 candidate. But the House's course of action has fallen well below 'unhelpful' and instead verges on outright sabotage. How do they think this is going to work out for them?" Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine.
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"Held Hostage By Itself, The GOP's Future Is Grim-To-Suicidal"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/ej-dionne-jr-held-hostage-by-itself.html
Did House Republicans just sabotage their 2016 presidential nominee? "As Friday's House vote on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program demonstrated...it's unlikely the next GOP presidential nominee, put through the rigors of a hyper-competitive primary controlled largely by conservative activists, will have the same flexibility, given opposition to DACA is now thoroughly woven into orthodoxy. The party's standard-bearer, in effect, will have to try to win Colorado after taking policy positions the state's current GOP Senate nominee plainly thinks would hurt his chances at victory." Scott Bland and Alex Roarty in National Journal.
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