Battle for House Intensifies After Impeachment (RATS 'in serious trouble')

Wall Street Journal via MSN ^ | 2/14/20 | Natalie Andrews

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON - House lawmakers are readying to campaign in the post-impeachment landscape, with Democrats eager to focus on policy issues and Republicans planning to attack swing-district Democrats for voting to remove a president whom many of their constituents support.

Democrats plan to defend the majority, and specifically their 30 seats in districts that Mr. Trump won in 2016, by discussing the issue that gave them the gavel in 2018: lowering health-care costs. Lawmakers expect to stay far away from talking about the two articles of impeachment the House passed against the president in December.

Republicans, meanwhile, will largely embrace running on the ballot alongside Mr. Trump. Their message will be national: attacking Democrats for impeachment and tying themselves to successes in the economy and the president.

“The Democrats who voted for impeachment from districts that Trump won with a majority are in serious trouble,” said David Wasserman, the House race analyst from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. Twelve House Democrats won in districts where the president won more than 50% of the vote, while 18 Democrats took districts that Mr. Trump won with a plurality.

Republicans credit the impeachment investigation for boosting fundraising. In the first six weeks of this year, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has raised over $1.5 million online, according to an aide. By comparison, he raised $1.3 million in the final quarter of 2019.

[abbastanza]

That’s not going to happen. If the GOP takes the House, the first thing they’ll do is start that “working across the isle crap” and McCarthy will morph into Paul Ryan. They’ll never learn. Idiots to the very end.

[Go Gordon]

Republicans, meanwhile, will largely embrace running on the ballot alongside Mr. Trump

Hey NataLIE, its President Trump.

[eartick]

And, pray tell, what have the Democrats done to reduce health care costs?

Right, I have not heard of any of the rats dying.

Maybe I missed that big savings

[Deo volente]

...the Orwellian “Democrat” language. In Democrat, “reduce health care costs”, means: “increase health care costs exponentially, but vote for me and you might get a bigger subsidy at someone else’s expense”.

And in other news, the chocolate ration has been raised from 30 to 25 grams a week. But on a serious note, they're channeling Orwell to trash the president's budget proposals. Mere reductions in the outrageous rate of spending growth are called "big safety-net cuts" and a $4.8 TRILLION budget is "draconian" and "heartless".