Posted on 11/25/2016 3:46:03 AM PST by randita
The breakneck pace ahead for Congress
By Chad Pergram
Published November 24, 2016
So 2017 is probably going to be a lot like 1995 on Capitol Hill.
Republicans in the House and Senate are practically exuberant that they now have control of both bodies of Congress and President-elect Trump coming into the White House. They have a chance to legislate and promulgate GOP and conservative policies which registered merely as “messaging bills” under President Obama.
The election of Trump grants Republicans agency to truly legislate. Many Republicans in Congress have never served under a GOP President. Eight years of a Democratic administration wore them down. Some grew tired of always working “against” something rather than striving “for” something.
Some Congressional Republicans grew disheartened. Uninspired. Exasperated. More years of investigations and inquiries awaited them in what many anticipated was the incoming Clinton Administration. So some Republicans turned on themselves. They went after former House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Chatter began that maybe House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., wasn’t good enough, either. Maybe Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,was the problem – so say nothing of all of those weird Senate rules.
And now, Republicans hit the jackpot. Or at least think they have. They’re anxious to get started. Energized. Confident. And expectations from the public are off the chart.
What is past is prologue.
Republicans seized control of both the House and Senate in the fabled 1994 midterm elections. Republicans lost the Senate in 1986. So it had only been eight years in the wilderness there. But the House was another enterprise altogether. Republicans wandered aimlessly in the minority for 42 years in the House of Representatives. So entrenched were the Democrats in the House, many observers believed the party may have marshaled a “permanent majority.”
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The Republicans need to unwind many years of bad legislation and defund so many departments and cabinet positions that are obsolete or never worked in the first place. The money savings alone would balance the budget.
Hard right! Turn this ship hard right.
Chad Pegram. Works for Fox. Has the usual perfect resume for a liberal. I have been watching and analyzing him for years. Liberal slant predominates, but is more of a “closet liberal” and elitist rather than a full-on commie. Beware.
Instead of rescinding 2 regulations for each new, let it be 20, or even 200. “Shut it down” and “lock her up!”
McConnell will try to break Trump’s progress.
A couple of us agree with you, as you can see. :-)
Senators have to treat the national media as the enemy. As Jesse Helms found out that is difficult and expensive to do.
So mostly Senators follow the Linda Graham course of being a toady of the national media.
But the same can be said (even more so) of presidential candidates- yet Trump managed to break through.
“Instead of rescinding 2 regulations for each new, let it be 20, or even 200. ‘Shut it down” and “lock her up!’”
Yes, with all dispatch.
“Hard right! Turn this ship hard right.” And ring the engine room, “all ahead flank!”
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