task0778
Diamond Member
As it stands now, the Senate will end up at 52-48, 51-49, or 50-50, depending on how those 2 Senate runoff races turn out in Georgia. The House is at 222 - 212 in favor of the democrats, with one race still outstanding - NY District 22 is under a court ordered recount. Either way that goes, the House and Senate majorities are somewhat slim, which means the leadership for both Parties will have problems forming any consensus to pass anything, especially since Trump will not be the force he once was as the president. Yeah, I know the election has yet to be finalized, but barring some kind of last minute surprise of epic proportions, the fat lady is getting ready to sing.
Assuming Biden is in fact going to be our next president, he's going to have to deal with a split Congress where the democrats have the House and the GOP have the Senate, albeit in both cases by small majorities, and that is where the rub comes in. The democrats have a split within their own party between the Far Left that basically wants a Swedish style social democracy and the establishment moderates that wants to get re-elected and stay in power. In last month's election the House dems lost 12 or more seats, and they've got to be concerned about losing their House majority in 2022.
Ditto in the Senate where the GOP also has a more moderate establishment that wants to keep it's hold onto the Senate and the fiscally conservatives who never liked Trump's big spending ways and won't support Biden's efforts to do the same. All of which leads up to gridlock in both chambers of Congress. Nobody will be willing to give anything to the other side for fear of being primaried.
Which is sort of a good thing but also a bad thing. Good because the Far Left is NOT going to get all those grandiose Green New Deal programs and policies, amnesty, big bailouts, etc. Bad because this country has some major problems looming and nothing is likely to get done to fix any of them. There seems to be a small cadre of politicians from both parties and from both the House and the Senate that are trying to develop compromises, but the leadership in both parties so far is not willing to sign up for anything for fear of losing their respective majorities.
So, we have an interesting couple of years ahead of us, with all sorts of political posturing and shifting proposals by each side against the other, with us caught in the middle. Sooner or later, somebody is going to startup a 3rd party (hopefully) that will support common sense compromises and cooperation. I think we definitely need that right now. But there could also be a splintering faction from the democrats of the Far Left who want what they want. It should be obvious to them by now that the Democratic Party isn't going to give them the policies they want cuz they ain't politically wise. And also possibly a splintering group from the GOP that is for a balanced budget, lower taxes, and spending control. A revitalized Tea Party if you will.
There is an awful lot of discontent and distrust in both parties and the gov't in general and nobody is blameless for that, least of all the media, Hollywood, and academia. Things may eventually get better, but I suspect they'll get a lot worse before then.
Assuming Biden is in fact going to be our next president, he's going to have to deal with a split Congress where the democrats have the House and the GOP have the Senate, albeit in both cases by small majorities, and that is where the rub comes in. The democrats have a split within their own party between the Far Left that basically wants a Swedish style social democracy and the establishment moderates that wants to get re-elected and stay in power. In last month's election the House dems lost 12 or more seats, and they've got to be concerned about losing their House majority in 2022.
Ditto in the Senate where the GOP also has a more moderate establishment that wants to keep it's hold onto the Senate and the fiscally conservatives who never liked Trump's big spending ways and won't support Biden's efforts to do the same. All of which leads up to gridlock in both chambers of Congress. Nobody will be willing to give anything to the other side for fear of being primaried.
Which is sort of a good thing but also a bad thing. Good because the Far Left is NOT going to get all those grandiose Green New Deal programs and policies, amnesty, big bailouts, etc. Bad because this country has some major problems looming and nothing is likely to get done to fix any of them. There seems to be a small cadre of politicians from both parties and from both the House and the Senate that are trying to develop compromises, but the leadership in both parties so far is not willing to sign up for anything for fear of losing their respective majorities.
So, we have an interesting couple of years ahead of us, with all sorts of political posturing and shifting proposals by each side against the other, with us caught in the middle. Sooner or later, somebody is going to startup a 3rd party (hopefully) that will support common sense compromises and cooperation. I think we definitely need that right now. But there could also be a splintering faction from the democrats of the Far Left who want what they want. It should be obvious to them by now that the Democratic Party isn't going to give them the policies they want cuz they ain't politically wise. And also possibly a splintering group from the GOP that is for a balanced budget, lower taxes, and spending control. A revitalized Tea Party if you will.
There is an awful lot of discontent and distrust in both parties and the gov't in general and nobody is blameless for that, least of all the media, Hollywood, and academia. Things may eventually get better, but I suspect they'll get a lot worse before then.