In age of Trump, GOP learns to embrace government activism

Democrats haven’t forgotten, and many of them are out to make the Republicans pay for their refusal to govern.

And if Barrasso and other Republicans find that surprising, they haven’t been paying close enough attention.

“I think there’s other ways to achieve what the president-elect is talking about”, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Monday. Numerous junior “Blue Dog Democrats” lost their seats in Congress (because they were campaigning like Republicans thereby turning off their Democratic base), and (as planned) the Republicans took control of MANY state level governments just in time to use the 2010 census to redistrict (gerrymander) those states to stack the odds to favor the election of Republicans to the House of Representatives.

“I do regret that”, said Sen.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who voted in favor of the rules change, blunts admitted to CNN: “I do regret that”.

How many losses will it take before House Democrats figure out they need a new leader?

The number of Republican women in the new Congress will drop slightly, from 28 to 26, compared to a slight increase in Democratic women, from 76 to 78.

Trump has chosen Betsy DeVos, a movement conservative on charter schools, for education secretary; Tom Price, a Republican Congress member with plans to slash entitlements, for health and human services secretary; and Elaine Chao, George W. Bush’s labor secretary, for transportation secretary.

“They want do reconciliation first and deal with replacement down the road”, said Sen. Jeff Sessions answer for his hard-line stands on civil rights issues and against comprehensive immigration reform.

A freshman congressman whose first bid for office was the 2014 race in which he knocked off 18-year Rep. John Tierney, the Salem Democrat has been among those advocating for new leadership within the party and a focus on economic issues after Hillary Clinton’s loss on November 8 to President-elect Donald Trump.

After Barack Obama was elected in 2008, Republicans looked at their base and saw a somewhat loony but potentially potent political force.

Some Democrats realize they’ve made life harder for themselves.

She also denounced Trump’s plan to nominate Sen. These are the people who will be doing the work of the Trump administration. Step one is replacing who gets to guide that change.

“All signs suggest a fight is coming”, Schumer said.

Democratic state comptroller candidate Susana Mendoza won a 49.5 percent plurality of the overall vote, and 52.7 percent head to head against Republican incumbent Leslie Geissler Munger. Every person previously appointed via the Democrats’ “nuclear option” will resign his or her position. They can not understand the economic anxiety of those who voted for Trump. I will discuss those issues in an upcoming newsletter. “Someone who is as anti-government as him is a odd fit for Housing Secretary, to say the least”. “We’ve got to get out there on offense, as well”.

Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk. At least four of Trump’s nominees will be held up for scrutiny by the minority in the Senate. The needs of Iowans will be at the top of our minds at all times. Senate Democrats can mount a filibuster, requiring 60 votes in the Senate for approval.

“The Republicans are terrified of actually repealing because so many elements are quite popular”, Merkley said.

Assembly GOP leaders have said everything should be considered.

“It is ironic that during a prolonged period of low wage growth for most Americans, today’s Democratic Party has failed to articulate a forceful and meaningful message to working families that we are on their side”, Lynch said in a statement. “When Republicans are in power, these changes will apply to them as well”.