Many people describe the Democrats and the Republicans combined as the Uni-Party.\u00a0 Essentially it is alleged that because the main business of all congressional office holders is to make as much money as possible off of peddling their influence that there really isn\u2019t much difference between the goals or actions of either.\u00a0 As an example, is the support in both the House and the Senate for the Ukraine War.\u00a0 It would be impossible to prove that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was any less enthusiastic than Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to send another hundred billion dollars to Ukraine.\u00a0 Or look at the Democrats and Republicans who sit on subcommittees overseeing the FDA.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that lobbyists from Pfizer know each of them by first name and routinely wine and dine them while informing them which bills need to be passed and who at the FDA is giving them grief about their latest \u201cwonder drug.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, there is a lot of truth in this characterization.\u00a0 But there is still a fierce rivalry between the two parties for control of the Congress.\u00a0 After all, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader have enormous power to set the agenda in their respective legislative bodies.\u00a0 The Speaker especially has complete control to block any bill from ever seeing the light of day in the House.\u00a0 And if for no other reason than to acquire this power the two parties are constantly at war to overtake each other in the number of seats they control.<\/p>\n
So, the question I think about is how badly do the Democrats have to screw up before the Republicans recognize the situation as more momentous than just allowing them to steal more than the Democrats.\u00a0 Put another way, if the country became so disgusted with the multiple crises that Joe Biden\u2019s crime family has sparked that they gave the Republicans very large majorities in both the House and Senate would the Congress have the patriotism or at least the common sense to use the opportunity to try and save the country from the impending crash landing that we are surely headed for?\u00a0 Or would they just use the opportunity to steal more stuff as fast as possible before the end?<\/p>\n
I believe there is a little bit of hope out there.\u00a0 Recently we saw the Republicans in the House of Representatives sack the Speaker of the House; an unheard-of thing.\u00a0 And there have been grumblings against Mitch McConnell in the Senate.\u00a0 Now granted, the Senate is a lot more bought and sold than the House.\u00a0 Even if McConnell were replaced as Leader by someone who hadn\u2019t yet reached his two hundredth birthday it would still be one of McConnell\u2019s cronies.\u00a0 But maybe the same forces that got rid of Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are working to build a more representative party out of the Stupid Party.<\/p>\n
I think given enough time we could get enough somewhat honest people into the Congress to begin changing the direction of the laws in this country.\u00a0 The real question, the only crucial question is whether we will do that before we run out of time and the whole mad house collapses and crumbles to dust.<\/p>\n
Will the Democrats get bounced by the voters?\u00a0 Will the Republicans seize the moment to fix things?\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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