Posted on 11/17/2022 2:39:01 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Republicans managed to make their victory in the House seem like a loss by underperforming so badly. But while they did not win control by anywhere near the margin that they anticipated, they did win. And in the House, even the barest majority can work its will if it can hold together to produce 218 votes.
The main question going forward is whether Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, who was nominated Tuesday to lead the new Republican majority, can achieve the unity necessary to perform fundamental tasks such as funding the government, or whether unyielding far-right members will make the new speaker’s life miserable and the House an unmanageable mess.
The likely single-digit-seat victory will allow Republicans to claim power — including subpoena power — set the agenda, run the committees and try to hold President Joe Biden’s feet to the fire with a string of promised investigations.
Despite their underwhelming showing, Republicans are unlikely to be chastened into cooperating with Biden and no doubt will plunge ahead aggressively once they get their hands on the gavels. For many, that was the point of the election. Their agenda is investigative, not legislative.
For McCarthy, his party’s win came in the worst possible way. The much thinner than expected majority means fewer Republicans from swing districts who might be averse to provoking chaos, making him more reliant on the fire-breathing hard-right members who triumphed in safe, ruby-red districts on the promise of political warfare against Biden.
At the same time, he will need to protect the less incendiary freshmen, such as the newcomers from New York who will be the top targets of Democrats beginning almost immediately.
The margin and the mix could combine to make the House all but ungovernable.
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I have low expectations. They’ve managed to screw things up in the past.
In fairness, they couldn’t run it if they had a majority of 50.
Dems can buy a few spineless RINOs to get whatever they want
biggest lie is that there a change in power... the uniparty always wins.
Let’s hope not. Best thing that can happen there is nothing.
NYT, the first hurdle and KEY point in this is that the Democrats WON’T be in charge of the Speakership OR the committees. The first committee to get a drastic change should be that kangaroo court they called J6 Insurrection Investigations.
Secondly, there should be no trace or a hint of power sharing nonsense because of the close numbers. Not one bit of that nonsense.
Probably true. And this is why if Trump “lost” I wanted to lose it all. If the GOP kept the senate they would be blamed for this mess.
Republicans Barely Won the House. Now Can They Run It?
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hahahaha
We’ll see.
Did they run things when they got a majority back in 2010?
I don’t want them to “run it” in the sense most people mean, i.e “to get things done for the ‘Merican people”.
Screw that, leave the people alone. Just vote NO on every damn thing Biden wants, reisist, oppose, negate, fight, obsctruct, obfuscate and just plain raise hell.
That will be sufficeint til 2024.
Note that whenever Dems get control of either house they go full bore, hard core, pedal to the metal whacko agenda with no thought of compromise or moderation. They ram their socialism down America’s gagging throat, no apologies.
But Republicans fret and wring their hands, terrified they might offend.
And I keep voting for them.
The disappointment sure hasn’t taken long.
The Republicans had the House, Senate, and Oval Office from January 2017-2019. They certainly squandered that opportunity.
The Speaker is the person in the House to decide what legislation gets to the floor for a vote.
Nancy seemed to have no problems with an even smaller margin
Hopefully Adam Schiff and his little buddy Eric Swalwell will no longer be a members of the Intel committee.
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