Not For Long

The Democrats’ House majority isn’t likely to survive their crazy plans. Plus, other items from hither and yon.

Scott McKay November 12, 2018

OK, so the Democrats did manage to pick up enough House seats — 32 as of Sunday night, with perhaps a couple more to be awarded after recounts of too-close-to-call races — to make Nancy Pelosi the next Speaker of the House.

At least, President Trump and the Republicans aiming to reverse the results of the 2018 midterms when the House is back up for re-election in two years, certainly hope it’s Pelosi. We already know the insane old woman from San Francisco is the best friend the GOP ever had, and she’s already signaling her second tour of duty as House Speaker will be every bit as toxic to her party’s political fortunes as her first was.

And this time, Pelosi won’t have the power to deliver any legislative victories like she did the first time, when a President Obama was available to sign bills Pelosi and then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were able to ram through Capitol Hill. There will be no Obamacare, there will be no Dodd-Frank, and there certainly won’t be any of the other leftist fantasies like card check or cap and trade which couldn’t pass in 2009 or 2010.

There is a legislative victory available to Pelosi, if she’ll take it. That would be an infrastructure bill — a real one this time. Pelosi had an opportunity to pass a plan to rebuild the country’s roads, bridges, airports, seaports, waterways and other fixtures when Obama was inaugurated, but the so-called “stimulus” plan the Democrats in the House and Senate sent to his desk was light on pouring concrete and heavy on paying off public-employee unions..........To Read More....