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These House Republicans plan to object certifying Biden’s win
Democrats see secret downside to capturing Senate majority Democratic Party leaders hoping to sweep two special Senate elections in Georgia may want to be mindful of the old adage about being careful what you wish for — lest you get it.
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© Provided by Washington Examiner Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are gunning to defeat Republican incumbent Sens. David Purdue and Kelly Loeffler in the Peach State's Jan. 5 runoff election. Twin victories would give the party control of the White House, House of Representatives, and a tie in the Senate which could be broken by soon-to-be Vice President Kamala Harris. But full control brings responsibility — and potential peril. With the party's far-Left emboldened to advance their agenda, centrist Democrats could find themselves pining for gridlock.
“It’s always better to be in the majority. But progressives will put more pressure on a hypothetical Democratic majority than on a minority for obvious reasons,” said a Democratic strategist.
Centrist-leaning Democrats up for reelection in the next couple of election cycles will particularly feel heat from the hard Left, said Jessica Anderson, executive director of the group Heritage Action, which is working to mobilize conservative voters for the Georgia runoff.
Democratic senators from red states or senators from purple states are "really feeling the tug of war between the constituents that they represent versus the progressive agenda,” Anderson said. “You’ve got to add in the layer of the Senate map for 2022 and '24 for those Democrat senators that are up for reelection, do they get primary challengers from the left?” she said.
That creates a paradox for some centrist Democrats — an electoral incentive for them if Ossoff and Warnock lose.
"If you have control, then you own it, and there are certain expectations that folks on the Left have," said T.J. Rooney, former chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party.
Matt Bennett, a co-founder of the center-left think tank Third Way and a veteran of Democratic campaigns and the Clinton administration, saw similar pressure coming from the Left on a prospective Democratic Senate majority.
“There will be cases in which the moderates have to fend off pressure from the Left, there's no doubt about that if Democrats control both houses,” Bennett said.
Republicans spent much of the 2020 election cycle warning about policy differences the parties will push if they hold the majority. Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont would head the Senate Budget Committee and likely push for deep Pentagon cuts. And with Senate rules requiring only a bare majority for tax increases, it's a good bet that would become law with President Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats holding the House majority.
Democrats could also push to make Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico states, with the aim of creating more House and Senate seats the party would be strongly favored to win. And the change in party control would also mean Republicans would lose the right to subpoena documents in the Hunter Biden laptop case and related matters.
A new set of headaches could include non-stop pressure from the congressional hard Left and a series of seemingly endless public, uncomfortable face-offs with leftist activists. And the party's most liberal leaders are champing at the bit to exercise full control of the executive and legislative branches.
"Obviously, with Democratic control of the Senate, we expect that we will move forward very aggressively on a number of issues,” Sanders told the Washington Examiner. The two-time Democratic presidential candidate mentioned “working families, the environment, immigration” as pressure targets on the mainstream Democratic leadership if the party captures the majority.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told the Washington Examiner that "expectations are higher in the majority," particularly from the party's liberal base.
Democratic control of the House, Senate, and White House has not occurred since the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency from 2009 to 2011. It would vastly expand the realm of possible laws that Joe Biden could sign.
But for mainstream Democrats, a trifecta control that requires complete unity among Senate Democrats could put many of the more centrist Senate Democrats in crossfires with the left-wing.
Extremist organizations outside the main Democratic Party apparatus are working to elect Ossoff and Warnock. That includes the Sunrise Movement, champions of the “Green New Deal”; the Progressive Campaign Change Committee, a top ally of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; MoveOn; and Our Revolution, the organization founded by Sanders.
The organizations know that their legislative priorities stand little chance with Republicans in power. But they’ve shown themselves perfectly willing to pressure Democrats to get their way. In November, the Sunrise Movement, joined by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of "the Squad," held a rally outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters and pledged to keep the pressure on Biden, so he follows through with his climate agenda.
The result for some more centrist Senate Democrats could be a repeat of a Sunrise Movement confrontation with California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In 2019, child activists from the Sunrise Movement descended upon Feinstein’s office and asked her to support the Green New Deal. Video showed a clearly irritated Feinstein responding in a tone that the organization later said was with “smugness + disrespect,” saying: “You didn’t vote for me.”
An immediate issue in the Senate would be the filibuster, the rule that prevents debate on legislation from ending and moving to a vote without approval from 60 out of 100 senators. While supporters of the filibuster say that it encourages broad consensus, it is seen as a major impediment to far-Left activists eyeing major policy changes.
Biden, who previously opposed ending the filibuster, in July expressed openness to ending it. Obama in July called the filibuster a “Jim Crow relic.” In the event of an Ossoff and Warnock win and without the filibuster, Biden could theoretically sign major legislation with sweeping changes into law without a single Republican vote.
Another issue will be whether Democrats will expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court as retaliation for Obama nominee Merrick Garland not getting a hearing in 2016 but Trump appointee Justice Amy Coney Barrett getting confirmed in the height of the 2020 election.
Secret DPST agenda - - really not so secret.
How much damage can the DPST's do in two years with a House , Senate, and radical harrris POTUS - there will never again be a free election in America.
They will spend and tax america into hyperinflation and Maduro Venezuela economic disaster.
They will enact Hate speech laws to control any difference of opinion.
they only fun will be when the DPST's turn their own laws on themselves due to the radical-Progressive- "less progressive" elements of the party due to its infighting to be More radical than Lenin, mao, and Stalin!
and - per usual - the DPST's will blame republicans for it all
DPST's have no concept whatsoever of any responsibility for the consequences of their actions!!
