The Wall Street Journal on the incoming Axis if Obama wins and the senate gets a filibuster proof majority....
If the current polls hold, Barack Obama will win the White House on November 4 and Democrats will consolidate their Congressional majorities, probably with a filibuster-proof Senate or very close to it. Without the ability to filibuster, the Senate would become like the House, able to pass whatever the majority wants.Though we doubt most Americans realize it, this would be one of the most profound political and ideological shifts in U.S. history. Liberals would dominate the entire government in a way they haven't since 1965, or 1933. In other words, the election would mark the restoration of the activist government that fell out of public favor in the 1970s. If the U.S. really is entering a period of unchecked left-wing ascendancy, Americans at least ought to understand what they will be getting, especially with the media cheering it all on.
The nearby table shows the major bills that passed the House this year or last before being stopped by the Senate minority. Keep in mind that the most important power of the filibuster is to shape legislation, not merely to block it. The threat of 41 committed Senators can cause the House to modify its desires even before legislation comes to a vote. Without that restraining power, all of the following have very good chances of becoming law in 2009 or 2010.
It's going to be a rough four years
2 comments:
Gordon;
As a libertarian accountant, which is worse, raising tax such as Obama proposes, or printing large sums of fait paper money so that it no longer has any value by a corrupt banking industry as Bush and Congress are fostering and McNut will also continue?
Just to set the record straight I fear Obama tremendously, but I see little difference between the two.
I see it the same way. There would not be much difference between the two candidates. This is why the conservative wing did not want McCain, but why the media was behind a McCain nomination.
The republicans have themselves to blame by allowing themselves to get hookwinked in a move left, only to have their oxygen cut off when they got there. Bottom line: if the republicans have any chance in the future, they need to purge the current occupants of their power structure, and move back to where they belong: on the right. They may actually start winning elections again.
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