Sure, the GOP will be able to stop things (they're good at that) but they won't be able to push any agenda. Boehner has been talking like he will be able to, and that's a check he can't cash.

We agree it will be more business as usual. Which is to say poisonous.

>The Speaker of the House controls what legislation gets to the floor. Boehner wll be able to stop anything he (and the GOP) doesn't want. Pelosi stopped lots of GOP backed bills during her run as Speaker
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>>I'll definitely take door number two on the first point, although I wish it were otherwise.
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>>A slim majority in the House is not controlling the House. The Dems spent the past two years with a larger majority than the GOP will have and had to scratch and claw to get anything done at all. And that was with a Democratic Senate and President.