Blue Wave Would Wash Far-Left Committee Chairmen onto Capitol Hill

Deroy Murdock October 19, 2018

Imagine Dianne Feinstein running Judiciary and Maxine Waters managing Financial Services.
Republicans, independents, and thinking Democrats who wonder why they should go vote GOP on November 6 should visualize this: Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Dianne Feinstein and House Financial Services Committee chairman Maxine Waters.

If Democrats capture either or both chambers, key congressional panels would fall to far-left lawmakers. The macro effect is staggering. Among ten top Senate committees, the average lifetime American Conservative Union rating for today’s GOP chairmen is 85.3. Assuming that current ranking Democrats became chairmen, their average ACU rating would tumble to 7.1. In the House, across 10 top committees, the equivalent ACU averages would plunge from 88.6 to 5.0.

Translation: Loud Democrat demands for higher taxes, bloated spending, spools of bright-red tape, and ferocious digging beneath every rock in the Trump administration.

 

Come January, seniority and political jockeying might shuffle the leadership deck. But for now, imagine that today’s ranking members led these committees. (For more details, see my spreadsheet here.).............To Read More....