Posted on 01/01/2015 1:20:38 PM PST by PROCON
Change is coming to Washington in 2015 with the Republicans controlling the House and Senate for the first time in eight years. They will have their largest House majority in more than 75 years.
The outgoing Congress managed to agree on a spending bill to keep the government running, but a recent Pew Research Center poll suggests Americans are not cheerful about the future. Only 20 percent believe President Obama and Republican leaders will make significant progress on the country's biggest problems.
The upcoming 2016 presidential elections will also be part of the discourse. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is the first to say he's interested in running for the White House.
CBS News political director John Dickerson, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes and CBS contributor and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan joined "CBS This Morning" to highlight what to look out for in 2015.
Inevitable clashes between parties
"At the same time everyone is singing 'Kumbaya' and saying they want to work together, Republicans have a whole host of issues that they're going to want to work on now that they control all of Congress," Cordes said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Oops, we all know what should have been typed ...that’s “...six feet under”.
And the under refers to a septic tank. (Hope this does not pollute the tank.)
Just how many different friggin uniforms do the Ducks need?
Oops, wrong thread. Sorry.
Not much, if any. The main change will be that the media will step up its attacks on Congressional Republicans.
With current leadership it won’t.
With a conservative leadership that will fight, it would.
Only the changes wanted for by the Chamber of Commerce and K street will be made
Yet, curiously, it fits very well.
Nothing will change and the libs will blame it on the GOP.
Exactly. Soetoro’s water boys.
No matter who is in the WH, or which "party" runs Congress.
Until the election of Roosevelt and the Depression, Washington DC was a rather sleepy mid-sized Southern metropolis. America was largely run from State Capitals. As FDR implemented his many, varied, and invariably fruitless schemes to get us out of the Depression by spending our way out with no money, every loose left-wing dingbat in the country gravitated to DC to staff the "alphabet agencies" and the wildly expanding government. Bureaucracy spawned bureaucracy and the Depression grew deeper, until war preparations began in earnest in the late 1930's when British orders and up front payments in gold sparked our industrial revival, which really took off when we joined the war. Throughout the war, the bureaucracy and centralization exploded apace. It was the state capitals that became the sleepy small towns they pretty much are today.
The federal bureaucrats never left. They married. They had children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren who treat the bureaucracy like a sort of family business. Working in Washington, I met many such a bureaucrat ... who could not wait until I, an assistant to a Bush appointee, left. In the meantime, they did their level best to obstruct any reform, any Bush-inspired program, any money-saving idea, indeed any good idea, as only a bureaucrat who will not agree with any program inspired by any Republican, can.
Today, the federal bureaucracy actually runs Congress, not the other way round. Bureaucrats write the bills that the elected representatives never read, but dutifully sign. This is wonderful if the representative in question is a Democrat, because the federal bureaucrats are ... to a man ... to a woman ... all Democrats, too. Pretty tight club.
Republican Senator needs DC Staff? No problem. Suitable Democrats are signed on. That is what people are talking about when they say "Uniparty." It is a Government Party, consisting of Democrat Party Federal Bureaucrats in their hundreds of thousands, Elected Democrats who work hand-in-glove with them, and a pro-forma, usually minority opposition party that backs them up, cooperating for a share in the spoils. When the pro-forma enabling party wins an elective majority, it can be of great annoyance to them, distracting them from lucrative deals and service to their large donor-clients. It also costs them clout with the bureaucrats who control them.
Of course the way out of this giant federal government, this anti-constitutional mess, would be for Congress to exercise its constitutional prerogative not to pay for it. However, that would personally cost the representatives money, (your money, BTW) and the amounts are insane, as billionaires like Diane Feinstein and Orrin Hatch could tell you. It would cost them power. Eventually, it would force the many small-town lawyers in Congress back to their faltering practices, which is what got most of them into politics in the first place!
Nah, PRO, it might take another century. But since our country is demographically going to be the hemisphere's northernmost Latin American country, it's only natural that our future will follow Latin American models, with governments to match. Once that happens, we'll match our sister republics to the south revolution for revolution, Civil War for Civil War.
It's not guaranteed in the Constitution that we can keep the republic.
Ping
"Washington DC cannot change.
"No matter who is in the WH, or which "party" runs Congress.
"It's not guaranteed in the Constitution that we can keep the republic."
Check out important post #31.
Thanks, Kenny Bunk.
“....Working in Washington, I met many such a bureaucrat ... who could not wait until I, an assistant to a Bush appointee, left. ...”
Thanks for the info, Kenny Bunk!
Ping to the info and insights from the front lines...
Children will hold torchlight processions singing the “Horst Wessel Song”. Your pet German shepherd will begin to goose step. No non-pregnant woman will be allowed out of the kitchen or nursery. And that is just to start.
How will it change? To quote Hillary “What difference will it make?”
It will continue to be ever more tyrannical and unrepresentative. So sad.
From what i’ve seen already, including Mr. Cassidy voting FOR that monster spending bill, as his last act as a Representative, before filling the seat formerly overloaded by Mary Landrieu, the only change is that it will be more Republicans now, at the bacon-wrapped shrimp trough.
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