They will immediately launch numerous investigations. By midsummer they will launch an impeachment that will be 24/7 on the news until the election cycle begins. Foreign policy will grind to a stop. And they will crash the economy. They can do a hell of a lot more than just make noise.
How? They won’t get enough votes to impeach anyone and the Senate will squash all the crap bills they put forward. It’ll be unpleasant but it will not be new law or policy like we had under Obama.
Unfortunately, yes, they are dangerous now. Yet their obstruction can backfire in 2020.
The house has been doing investigations for the past two years. Nothing will change.
Democrats promised voters to fix healthcare. If they focus on impeachment they will get massacred in two years. Impeachment is dead on arrival in the senate.
Of course you are right but look at the long term. A lot of RINOS were purged this election cycle through retirements or loss. Those elected, especially in the Senate are full on Trumpers.
In my opinion, while I certainly do hate to lose the House, this could be a short two year cycle. Democrats will over reach. Paul Ryan is gone and Trump will be reelected in 2020 and has demonstrated coattails. Jeff Sessions is gone. Trump won’t make the same mistake with the next AG so we’re likely to see progress there. The Supreme Court. Although somewhat painful, this is a cleansing and a strengthened Senate.
What makes that any different than it has been for the last two years?
Conservative Republicans need to clean “house” at every political level. Get rid of the dead wood (some got ousted for not campaign effectively, if at all) and bring in a new generation of fighters.
The Dems managed to get some Iraq/Afghan vets who made inroads into Republican seats in the House. The GOP had a couple, at least one who won big, Jones. However, they have to recruit more veterans who will fight as hard against the Marxist Left as they did against Saddam, ISIS, and the Taliban/Al Qaeda. Same principles - destroy the enemy.
JUST AS IMPORTANT is the role of Republican House Minority staff in terms of countering the hardcore leftists and psychos who now will control the House - Pelosi, Waters, Schiff (a great target because he’s such a lying ahole), and others.
My friends were on the House Internal Security Committee, in the Minority, but they produced separate reports on several hearings which included information that the Dem-controlled Majority left out (for various reasons). Their Minority Reports were just as effective in exposing extremist groups (mainly communist) as were the Majority Reports.
By putting out “parallel” but better reports, the Minority on a Committee can cripple the Democratic majority, esp. if they have good, competent journalists on their distribution list.
Perhaps the Republican Majority can reestablish the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security in its original home, the Senate Judiciary Committee, while not stepping on any jurisdictional toes of the Sen. committees on Terrorism, etc.
I know how this worked as I gave 4 testimonies before both Subcommittee and full committees (SISS, HFAC, HASC, and HIRC), did a study for SISS, and a prepared statement/report for a House Ways & Means Committee hearing.
I won’t succeed unless you plan your operations well, get great staff, and drive the Democrats batshit crazy with your hit and run tactics.
I don't think so.
The big deal for the economy is cutting regulations and red tape for business. President Trump can do this without the House, and he will. The House alone can not pass any law.
Our route to winning in 2020 is through a great economy, conservative judicial appointments and a strong military. Losing the House will force DJT to concentrate on the first two items and push for more military budget.
But the big deal is that he can have a roaring economy and a great judiciary by 2020. And, a ready made campaign issue when the RATs obstruct everything else.
There may be a setback on the southern wall, but don't count him out on that. He can do 1800 miles of razor wire with no RAT participation. If it strengthens the economy, as it surely will, a real wall is a great campaign issue for 2020.
He campaigns on the fact that he promised a wall, but the obstruction was so strong that all he could do was razor wire. Give him some more support in congress and he will give us a wall...
We've been having those all along. What changes?
By midsummer they will launch an impeachment that will be 24/7 on the news until the election cycle begins.
Let them impeach. Do they have 2/3 of the Senate?
Foreign policy will grind to a stop.
The House has nothing to do with foreign policy.
And they will crash the economy.
What damaging legislation can they pass in the House, that would be passed in the Senate, and then ultimately signed by the POTUS?
They can do a hell of a lot more than just make noise.
Like what?
Without the senate impeachment means nothing. They will be labeled obstructionist and take the damage for that.
A Democrat majority in the House will be much like the following and have about as much effect.
Wang Rong Rollin - Chick Chick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzgwJ8tSE0
Kind of like a little box of weirdos with a big, fat amplifier and speaker on it.
With the Senate we have now, we’ll usher in the Patriarch again, and rule over anti-family freaks for the rest of their unnatural lives.
It’s getting late. Little correction of my keyboard fumbling here.
With the Senate we have now, we’ll see many new, righteous justices and judges, usher in the Patriarchy again and shut the anti-family freaks up for the rest of their unnatural lives.
They should have a very narrow margin, and many of them got elected from marginal districts. If they want to get reelected they need to work with Trump.
Release all the docs, emails, etc AND appoint a special counsel for spygate
How did that work out for the Dems in the Kavanaugh hearings?
Foreign policy will grind to a stop.
The Democrat controlled House will have exactly ZERO effect on foreign
policy. It’s the US Senate that approves or rejects treaties with foreign countries.
And they will crash the economy.
With what?. They can’t pass a single crazy, job killing bill past a 55 seat majority GOO US Senate.