Posted on 11/10/2016 1:52:51 PM PST by oblomov
As I write, at one in the morning, it looks as though the Republicans will score a hat trick: the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives.
Which means we are poised for an extraordinary revolution in American government, with a 100 days of legislation beginning on January 20 next in which Obamacare will be repealed and replaced, and in which we can begin to talk about major tax, immigration, and campaign reform bills. We can imagine a Supreme Court that respects our republican system of government.
We can begin to drain the swamp.
What that adds up to is a reversal of the parade of horribles that have been enacted over the last eight — indeed eighty — years.
One thing is absolutely crucial, and that is the necessity of abandoning the Senate filibuster. The Democrats don’t honor it, and it’s become a handcuff that fetters only the Republicans. Trump’s legislative agenda will be DOA if the filibuster survives. As it stands, it’s turned out to be the principal obstacle to republican government, since the gridlock it’s given us provided Obama the excuse to rule as an elective monarch.
We’re also going to have a new Republican Party. It will be a Party that includes Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, of course, but it won’t be a party that will pay much attention to the self-styled intellectuals of the Party, all those people who scorned both Trump and his supporters, the NeverTrumpers who did everything they could to defeat Trump, with the absurd candidacies of David French and Evan McMullin.
David Frum, The Federalist, NRO, all those vendu conservatives who write for the Washington Post, they couldn’t wait to purge Trump supporters from the Party. So, guys, how’s that purge working out for you?
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Could not agree more. Roll em.
Could not agree more. Roll em.
Ironically we have Obama to thank!
This Thanksgiving, half the nation will be celebrating with a traditional turkey dinner. The other half will be eating crow.
Awesome article. A new nationalist form of republicanism is on the rise.
The Democrats don’t honor it, and it’s become a handcuff that fetters only the Republicans. Trump’s legislative agenda will be DOA if the filibuster survives.
As it stands, it’s turned out to be the principal obstacle to republican government, since the gridlock it’s given us provided Obama the excuse to rule as an elective monarch.
Agree. I have thought about that for a while. I really wanted to see 0vomit defeated by Romney in 2012, but if that had happened, we wouldn’t have this opportunity to REALLY drain the swamp.
I am hoping that it was well worth enduring the extra 4 years of 0vomit to get to this point and do a thorough housecleaning.
bump
Hey don't diss McMuffin, in the end it wasn't even close, he far out paced Darrel Castle for 5th place.
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