What Can the House/Senate GOP Do?
For the next two years that is. Er, not much. Bush will provide plenty of vetoes to Dem plans (negative power), but in terms of proposing ideas, well they had their chance and blew it. Anyway, some conservative thinkers have some quick takes on what GOP minorities should focus on. I like Grover Norquists.
Republicans in Congress need to use the first 100 days and the next two years to lose. Propose House rules that keep the present GOP requirement for a 3/5 vote to raise taxes. And lose. Propose House rules that term limit committee chairmen -- the old GOP rule only applied to Republicans. And lose. Propose a tax cut. And lose. Heck, get denied an actual vote. Have a procedural vote. And lose. Propose an end to earmarks. And lose. Write welfare reform part three. And lose.A series of ideological losses will at least let them campaign on something positive in '08. Strange as that sounds.
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Isn't this exactly the sort of thing that Dems were disallowed from doing in recent years? is there a good reason Dems should let Republicans do this? Why would they ever let this stuff get to the floor?
The Dems certainly don't have to allow it to get to the floor. The GOP just has to keep floating (and losing) on innovative conservative ideas so they can say they tried to do new stuff. It's what the last House GOP minority did in the 80s and early 90s when they were blocked.
I guess I don't understand why this didn't work for the Dems for the last 4 years. It's not like they didn't put forward proposals, they just never got anything to the floor (duh) and somehow that translated to "they have no ideas." but if the GOP does the exact same thing they are going off to heroic defeat.
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