Commence the do-nothing government
Midterm results have assured that the next two years in Washington will be nothing but a dog-and-pony show where we'll pay all these windbags to do absolutely nothing.
The GOP widened their gap in the Senate which has closed to assure they will hold it in 2020 (10-15% chance the Dems can win there) so the Senate will spend two years doing two things
1) rejecting liberal spending bills
2) appointing judges by the boatload and, possibly, getting a shot at confirming another SC judge or two (Ginsberg, Breyer both in 80's)
The DEM house majority means they will be focused on 2 things:
1) disparaging the president with every negative "-ist" term possible and getting people to further question his character with rabbit hole chasing of his tax records and Russian collusion with the nearly impossible end-goal of impeachment
2) fighting for every budget dollar possible to truly root Obamacare so they can take a run at Medicare the next time they have full govt control. Trump's promises of repealing Obamacare are over and his infrastructure program (the wall, roads, bridges, highways) is absolutely dead unless he wants to build a bunch of gender-neutral bathrooms...I'm sure the DEMs would get behind that. But, Trump has done what he wanted to do economically so will now just put through spending ideas for the libs to slap back. aka, a do-nothing House
So today begins 2-6 years of a government that will do absolutely nothing other than engage in partisan labeling. Interesting to see how the DEMs move forward since 3 of their 4 most radical house candidates lost with only the un-loseable 14th district seat in NY State coming through (which was never in question yet the big mouth lost 5% of the votes that Crowley had in 2016).
With Pelosi immediately pushing last night away from radical ideas and looking for common ground this will be several years of very boring politics which is exactly what we need. The economy is rolling so let the House play around with our money while the Senate keeps appointing judges. I'm cool with that Soumi
Midterm results have assured that the next two years in Washington will be nothing but a dog-and-pony show where we'll pay all these windbags to do absolutely nothing.
The GOP widened their gap in the Senate which has closed to assure they will hold it in 2020 (10-15% chance the Dems can win there) so the Senate will spend two years doing two things
1) rejecting liberal spending bills
2) appointing judges by the boatload and, possibly, getting a shot at confirming another SC judge or two (Ginsberg, Breyer both in 80's)
The DEM house majority means they will be focused on 2 things:
1) disparaging the president with every negative "-ist" term possible and getting people to further question his character with rabbit hole chasing of his tax records and Russian collusion with the nearly impossible end-goal of impeachment
2) fighting for every budget dollar possible to truly root Obamacare so they can take a run at Medicare the next time they have full govt control. Trump's promises of repealing Obamacare are over and his infrastructure program (the wall, roads, bridges, highways) is absolutely dead unless he wants to build a bunch of gender-neutral bathrooms...I'm sure the DEMs would get behind that. But, Trump has done what he wanted to do economically so will now just put through spending ideas for the libs to slap back. aka, a do-nothing House
So today begins 2-6 years of a government that will do absolutely nothing other than engage in partisan labeling. Interesting to see how the DEMs move forward since 3 of their 4 most radical house candidates lost with only the un-loseable 14th district seat in NY State coming through (which was never in question yet the big mouth lost 5% of the votes that Crowley had in 2016).
With Pelosi immediately pushing last night away from radical ideas and looking for common ground this will be several years of very boring politics which is exactly what we need. The economy is rolling so let the House play around with our money while the Senate keeps appointing judges. I'm cool with that Soumi
