Posted on 11/07/2018 3:33:04 PM PST by re_tail20
As word trickled out Tuesday night that Democrats had recaptured the House, likely Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California wasted no time in celebrating the moment.
“Tomorrow will be a new day in America,” she proclaimed.
But beyond Pelosi’s soaring rhetoric is a harsh political reality: the power to shape the country no longer rests in the House. Instead, the waning influence of America’s legislature is concentrated in the Senate. And unless Democrats can take back the upper chamber, Tuesday’s victory is nothing but political fool’s gold.
Here’s why.
Most Americans know how Washington, D.C. is supposed to work, with the House and Senate drafting compromise legislation to fix the nation’s troubles while the president signs or vetoes the bills accordingly. But a recent study shows that things aren’t going as the Founding Fathers had planned. No longer are the House and Senate serving their intended functions of drafting new laws, declaring war, and serving as a check on the presidency.
Instead, the deeply divided legislative branch has delegated its powers to the executive – specifically to the president and his many executive orders.
It’s a pattern that started with President Barack Obama and has continued under President Donald Trump.
But that heavy-handed governing has led to an unending stream of lawsuits from opposing states and activist groups. That means the federal judiciary has more frequently stepped in to decide the nation’s future on the most divisive issues like abortion, immigration, and affirmative action.
In effect, we are increasingly governed not by the House and Senate but by partisan judges who rule on partisan lawsuits.
“The legislature is impotent,” thundered Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., during a recent debate. “The legislature is weak.”
And yet even as Capitol Hill has weakened itself, the Senate has retained one critical function: confirming those...
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30 Senate Democrats... its a compensation for being an impotent House minority.
Mind you, cities aren’t all what they’re cracked up to be.
That entire calculus could change with a sustained and effective marketing effort in urban areas. The GOP has abandoned the field in large numbers of districts and that needs to change. There are excellent messages that could be put out. Show them the pictures of their cities and say we want to fix this, help us. And start now, not in campaign season. Go into those Dem strongholds and make them play defense. If the GOP is playing defense all the time that’s a long-term losing scenario. It’s time to be aggressive and attack the Democrats in their power base.
I think the biggest, most far-reaching and most indefensible in terms of the US Constitution, is the regulatory powers DELEGATED by Congress to the various EXECUTIVE BRANCH Agencies like EPA, FDA, IRS, Dept. of Education etc. They have the effect of law in that a violator of these regulations can be subject to both civil and criminal penalties BUT REGULATIONS are NOT LAWS!!!
As an example take the previous Obama Administration's INFAMOUS Title IX 'Dear Colleague' guidance letter to all post-secondary colleges & universities in 2011 from the Dept. of Education Civil Rights Office. It basically REQUIRED all such institutions that receive ANY FEDERAL FUNDING, to strip the US Constitutional RIGHT of accosting an accuser from the male in a male-female dispute. Only the 8 years of growing outcry from the victims and, now the aware public, has served to get THIS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION to start the reversal process on this travesty!
Yes the US Constitution recognized the need for the Executive Branch to have the ability to make expedient orders (Presidential Executive Orders) but the vision was always have them subject to Judicial Branch revocation for being UnConstitutional and for Legislative Branch to formulate a law after due consideration. Your activist government at work thanks to the progressive machinations from multiple Administrations (TR, WTWilson & FDR being prime exemplars!)
Very true. And as long as the Senate stays red, the Dems are also powerless to enact their agenda, and voters will judge them to be failures. On the other hand, Trump can now do more things by EU and expect them to be upheld by Scotus.k
P.J. O’Rourke observed that the USA had three branches of
government: Money, Television, and Bullsh..
“By 2040, Democrats and liberals will live in only 15 of the nation’s 50 states, netting them 30 senators in the 100 member chamber.
That’s true even if they retain control of the House. We’ll likely have a gridlocked Congress far into the future with liberal urban majorities dominating the House and rural conservative minorities running the Senate.
A recipe for perpetual political conflict.”
Another reason why The Left approves of: lowering the age to start voting to 16 years old; cheating their way to political victory through dead votes, voting from more than one location during elections, through judicial activism, and from votes from illegal immigrants and from criminals. Also, The Left wants to turn each and every U.S. territory into states, which would expand the total number of U.S. Senators and U.S. House of Representative members.
I wish that your numbers were solid, but I think that you’re a bit over-confident in the GOP’s long-term lock on the Senate. I agree that the GOP has an advantage, but some kind of persistent 70-30 is pretty optimistic.
Hillary Clinton won 21 states. Most of those are pretty solidly blue. Maybe a Nevada or a New Hampshire or even a Minnesota will be in Trump’s column in 2020, I don’t know, but, based on yesterday’s results, it’s hard to say that any of them are very obviously trending conservative. Plus, we can’t discount the possibility of the Dems continuing to field candidates like Tester who can win in places like Montana that really should be solidly red.
You would think but the media will drum the "It's Trump Fault" mantra, and the unwashed masses will buy it. The hatred if PDJT is that deep.
PT IS doing that, but that does not transfer to weak Republicans. The press is most afraid of Nationalism continuing to grow in minority communities.
When is it NOT campaign season? Most campaigns look to be between 18 and 30 months long. There are elections every 24 months in every state, plus there are referenda, special elections, byelections, and the like throughout the year everywhere.
Not in campaign season. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Excellent answer, spot on.
How exactly will they be removed from places like NV, MT, CO, and even AZ? The current trend of them migrating to infest conservative states like locusts is exactly the opposite.
Defeatis not victory, regardless of how it was spun. It is only the beginning if we don’t stop the elimination of our speech.
Californians moving into Az. Them and illegal aliens are voting. Oh almost forgot all the colleges round Phoenix turning out little marxist bots.
Agreed. Should have been done 18months ago.
100 percent correct.
If Pelosi follows up,on her threats it could cause a red tsunami.
With their lock on the big cities, the Liberals and Democrats are starting to target the suburbs. If the Conservatives, or Republicans, are smart, or were smart, they would develop and launch a counterattack both on the suburbs and the big cities.
With their lock on the big cities, the Liberals and Democrats are starting to target the suburbs. If the Conservatives, or Republicans, are smart, or were smart, they would develop and launch a counterattack both on the suburbs and the big cities.
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