If Republicans take the Senate, some ideas will still fall to Democratic filibusters, but more will make it to Obama's desk. He'll have to actually veto things bills like the Ryan budget rather than simply letting them die through Senate inaction. There's a "political effect of Obama being forced to show what he's for and what he's against," says one senior Republican Senate aide.
Would he agree to some of these things? It would be bigger if they actually built it. There's one policy that Democrats think might actually pass into law if Reid no longer has the power to control the floor: the Keystone XL pipeline. Enough Democrats support it that if Republicans bring it to the floor in a reasonable way they'll win the vote — and it's not clear Obama will fight with a veto.
Democrats don't want to lose the Senate. But they're not as worried about it as you might imagine. The reason, mainly, is that they think they'll win it right back. The map heavily favors Republicans: 21 Democratic seats are up, but only 15 Republican ones. But the map is even more favorable to the Democrats: as of now, they'll be defending 10 seats to the GOP's 24, and doing it amid the more favorable demographics of a presidential election.
Some Republican incumbents won't run for reelection, but most will — and that means much of McConnell's caucus will be worrying about a primary challenge. And if there's one thing Senate Republicans learned from Bob Bennett, Dick Lugar, and Mike Castle, it's that you don't want a reputation for working with Democrats if you're facing a primary anytime soon. I think there's a depth people didn't know we could sink to. Senate Republican's biggest complaint with Reid's management of the Senate is he doesn't run an open amendment process.
Democrats think this basically ridiculous: the Senate, they say, has never routinely run truly open amendment processes, as they're too unwieldy.
But Democrats wonder whether McConnell will try it if he takes over. Republican staffers believe he will — and that it could change the Senate much for the better. What kind of Senate would Mitch McConnell run? Democratic staffers are more skeptical. Something both sides bring up often is that rank-and-file senators hate the way the modern Senate works. They believe they were sent to Washington to solve the nation's problems.
They're embarrassed by how little gets done. They know that their names aren't going to be etched into the history books — at least not positively — unless something changes. And I doubt Republicans on Capitol Hill would try to stop him.
In fact, certain Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, particularly House Intelligence Community Chairman Devin Nunes , could emerge emboldened from a election in which Democrats directly targeted them for defeat but failed.
But that situation has gotten worse in the first few months of If Republicans win the House this fall, I expect Democrats on the Hill will force Pelosi out as leader after pinning at least some of the blame for their defeat on her or just deciding that they need someone new. The No. This freakout could go way beyond sidelining the Democratic leaders in Washington, though. Would the calls asking for a figure from outside of politics say, Oprah Winfrey to run for president to save the Democratic Party and save the country from Trump get louder, in effecting casting aside more traditional presidential candidates like Sens.
Cory Booker and Elizabeth Warren? Before the presidential election, would party activists beg former president Barack Obama to get more involved in electoral politics, taking a defeat as a sign that the current crop of Democrats are not equipped to take on Trump? That decision has also been reinforced by two factors. So the media has covered the Trump story largely through Washington, not Middle America, and has covered Trump fairly negatively. Coverage might go in a somewhat pro-Democratic direction, asking if something is amiss with the electoral system if Democrats keep winning the national popular vote but remain shut out of power.
Other important things would happen, of course. GOP control of the Senate would allow Trump to continue to fill federal courts with conservative judges. But there are big differences between the parties," McConnell said. View the discussion thread. Skip to main content. A must-read political newsletter that breaks news and catches you up on what is happening. Most Popular - Easy to read, daily digest of the news from The Hill and around the world.
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