All the bad news for the Dems has lifted my heart.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t let it go to my head.\u00a0 I know just how bad things are.\u00a0 But with a light-heart comes a playful mood.\u00a0 So, I\u2019ll spin some words and try to imagine the best-case scenario we could hope for going forward.\u00a0 So, play along.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll start out with November 8th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Based on everything going right for the Republicans the wildest fantasy, the one where only Vermont and New York elect a Democrat Senator, would give us 57 seats in the Senate.\u00a0 But since it\u2019s not a filibuster proof 60 votes let\u2019s just go along with this outrageous 57 number.\u00a0 Then let\u2019s say the Republicans win some outlandish number of seats in the House, say 60 seats. \u00a0Effectively this shuts down any more of Biden\u2019s legislative agenda and curtails his ability to pick judges for the federal bench and means his cabinet replacements can be tortured and even denied if they\u2019re at all egregious (which they will be).\u00a0 This also means Mitt Romney and whoever is left of the Senate NeverTrumpers will be forced to shut up for the next wo years.\u00a0 In fact, old Mitt is up for re-election two years and I wouldn\u2019t be at all surprised to see him walking back all his anti-Trump talk and begin groveling on his belly asking for Trump\u2019s endorsement for his re-election.\u00a0 Now that will be fun to watch.<\/p>\n And even with less than 57 senate votes I can see the House sending an impeachment of Biden and his lackies pretty soon after they\u2019ve had a chance to do an investigation into the Hunter laptop.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t such an expensive process, I would like to see a quarterly impeachment come through the Congress until 2024 is complete.\u00a0 But it could get boring.\u00a0 After all we don\u2019t have anywhere near enough votes in the Senate to convict the old liar.<\/p>\n Now, with a Republican Congress Joe will try to play rope-a-dope by blaming Congress for tying his hands and refusing to fund all his pet projects.\u00a0 Basically, we\u2019ll have the same stalemate where continuing resolution funding will be voted in every quarter instead of a yearly budget.\u00a0 Considering that the Stupid Party is the stupid party this will be a painful process and they will take some damage.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll go through the next two years with the dance we\u2019re used to seeing playing out.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s assume Biden will try to wag the Ukrainian dog with some kind of false flag operation to try to blame the Russians for some casualties of NATO troops in Poland.\u00a0 He demands a blank check to go \u201cmano a mano\u201d with Ivan.\u00a0 Now since this is my happy-happy version let\u2019s assume that somehow our congressional heroes manage to avoid turning themselves into villains in this little passion play.\u00a0 And assume that the Russians manage to get the Ukrainians to the bargaining table and suddenly the war is over and NATO looks really stupid.<\/p>\n By this point we\u2019re about a year before the 2024 election and Dopey Joe is as toast as any incumbent has been since Jimmy Carter chased that rabbit away from his canoe back in 1980.\u00a0 Now with the whole country baying for Joe\u2019s blood and the economy still mired in stagflation Donald Trump wins the Republican nomination easily and the election is a landslide in which both the House and the Senate are solidly pro-Trump, filibuster proof and primed to enact a MAGA agenda.<\/p>\n Their first order of business is to close down the southern border tighter than a drum.\u00a0 Then enforce strictly all the existing laws to prevent illegal aliens from working in the United States.\u00a0 Then re-organize the intelligence agencies and Justice Department with elimination of the Patriot Act and the FISA Courts as the centerpiece.\u00a0 And for good measure they can write legislation to forbid the government from locking us in our homes ever again.\u00a0 Afterwards comes reversing all the green agenda nonsense and establishing a workable energy policy that includes nuclear and fossil fuel components as the main technologies.<\/p>\n After all this good stuff is done, they can tackle the discriminatory practices that the tech companies have been perpetrating against conservatives.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect the death penalty to be handed out but confiscation of the platforms sems fitting.\u00a0 And hopefully in the meantime the Supreme Court will have outlawed affirmative action and declared homosexuality and all its associated activities unprotected by the Constitution.<\/p>\n And after accomplishing all that, Mitch McConnell will be so exhausted that he\u2019ll have to be carted off to the old age home and younger and less crooked leadership can be appointed.\u00a0 Hopefully the same will be the case for the House leadership although we don\u2019t have to send McCarthy to an old age home.\u00a0 The back benches will be good enough.<\/p>\n So, there\u2019s my fantasy.\u00a0 It\u2019s absurd because we\u2019re stuck with the Stupid Party.\u00a0 They\u2019re too stupid, dishonest and lazy to get anything as monumental as the reformation of the federal government done.\u00a0 But it\u2019s been a good week and I felt like cheering myself up.\u00a0 I return you to the apocalypse already in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All the bad news for the Dems has lifted my heart.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t let it go to my head.\u00a0 I know just how bad things<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3343,3772],"class_list":["post-20821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-2022-elections","tag-best-case-scenario"],"yoast_head":"\n