Posted on 09/07/2019 4:56:12 AM PDT by BeauBo
The recent announcement by James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) that he would not seek re-election in 2020 sparked new worries among the GOP that retaking the House in 2020 might be nearly impossible. Although Sensenbrenner's district should be "safe" (as should about half of the more than a dozen seats in districts where Republicans are retiring), it never helps to lose an incumbent.
That said, in 2020, the control of the House may be well near irrelevant.
Over time, the House has had one major constitutional duty: the budget. All spending and taxation bills must originate in the House. But in all likelihood, the decline of the House started in 1995, when the newly elected Republican Congress under Newt Gingrich caved in to media pressure to give Bill Clinton his bloated budget. Since then, no House has even attempted to control the deficits or the debt. For eight years under George W. Bush, the rationale was to fund the War on Terror. Then, under Barack Obama, the Democrat House had no intention of dealing with the deficits or the debt. For eight years, under both Democrats and Republicans, nothing was done to recapture the budget process. Continuing resolutions were the rule of the day...
I write this with some sadness. It certainly was not the Founders' vision for the House to be the least relevant of the legislative process, and in the minds of many of the Founders, it was to be the most "democratic" and responsive to the people. Once the House ceded its most fundamental responsibilities, it was inevitable that those duties would be done by the Executive...
Nancy Pelosi has turned the House of Representatives into the American equivalent of the House of Lords.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Because if its 50/50, Minion Romney will screw us every time.
Like McCain did on health care reform and other important issues, and which Collins does from time to time.
“Then there is the Pelosi congress. It has accomplished nothing.”
AGREE! Nothing much has been made of the Pelosi “Do Nothing” Congress.
I mean “WHAT” have they done? Other than harass Trump.
They have been the epitome of a Do Nothing Congress.
I have never seen the establishment/Deep State so terrified as in November, 1994 - when they thought Newt Gingrich & Co. were going to storm into DC and zero out all of the Lefts budget priorities. That was the moment American Collectivism could have been stopped dead in its tracks, but the media saved it.
They have been the epitome of a Do Nothing Congress.
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In most times, “do nothing” congress is the absolute best congress.
I just can not figure out why people want a congress that approaches the manufacturing of bad law like their paid factory piece work wages.
The original setup made it hard to get anything done in congress on *purpose*. A congress that’s blown every which way and pumping out legislation on the whim of the day is a disaster.
The GOP is not attracting enough fresh, young candidates like Matt Gaetz, Dan Crenshaw and Ron DeSantis Instead we get duds like Romney and McCain and old farts like one of our State Senators who wanted to be sure you are dying before you can be given super weak medical marijuana and said veterans with PTSD just wanted to get high. Beto was young and exciting is why he almost beat St. Ted of Canada in Texas.
On Twitter, Roy Moore is a "convicted pedophile".
At this point, I consider Moore to be a Democrat, because his presence in the race may cement another Democrat Senate victory in Alabama.
That puts our national edge in the Senate at risk. And that means that the appointment of conservative judges over partisan Democrat judge-presidents is at risk.
Dan Crenshaw? One eyed Willie McCain. Less than worthless. Time to start a grass roots effort to eradicate the Republicants and start up the Trump party!
Good time to push term limits.
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