The Republican Party has taken over the Senate for the first time in eight years, they will hold at least 52 seats in the Senate which will convene in January, according to Reuters.
GOP candidates knocked off three incumbent Democratic senators and won four open seats previously held by Democrats, Reuters reported. Republicans also picked up seats in Arkansas, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina, South Dakota and West Virginia.
According to Slate, the previous Congress has been noted as the least effective Congress, ever, and now with the Republican majority Senate, it will most likely continue down that path.
The House of Representatives is also a Republican majority, which will give them more power, Reuters reported. In January, the Republican party will be in the majority in both chambers of Congress for the first time since 2006 election.
Senate majority leader Democrat Harry Reid is being replaced by Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, according to Reuters. Reid has been one of Obama's top political allies and backed Obamacare through the Senate in 2010.
The previous congress blocked all White House initiatives and a GOP majority, or controlled, Senate will probably mean more of the same, Slate reported. The Republican majority still lack the supermajority needed to prevent Democratic filibustering of big items.
Since the Tea Party is hijacking the Republican Party, and pushing anti-Global Warming arguments, a Senate GOP majority can have an extremely destructive effect, according to Slate.
