{"id":512107,"date":"2022-11-18T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-republicans-can-make-the-best-of-their-microscopic-house-majority\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T20:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:38:07","slug":"how-republicans-can-make-the-best-of-their-microscopic-house-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-republicans-can-make-the-best-of-their-microscopic-house-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"#How Republicans can make the best of their microscopic House majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3aa2d4b3d6f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3aa2d4b3d6f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-republicans-can-make-the-best-of-their-microscopic-house-majority\/#%E2%80%9CHow_Republicans_can_make_the_best_of_their_microscopic_House_majority%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How Republicans can make the best of their microscopic House majority&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_Republicans_can_make_the_best_of_their_microscopic_House_majority%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How Republicans can make the best of their microscopic House majority&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Kevin McCarthy may now have the hardest job in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous support of his caucus and isn\u2019t necessarily a foregone conclusion, he\u2019s signing up for the most miserable experience of any congressional leader since John Boehner barely controlled a Republican House majority in the Obama years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boehner presided over a caucus infused with new Tea Party members who expected to do great things when the leverage a congressional majority has over a president of the opposite party is inherently limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mismatch between their hopes and their power led to continual frustration, which was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/12\/18\/ex-speaker-of-the-house-john-boehner-writing-a-memoir\/\">taken out on Boehner<\/a>. By the time he resigned, the Ohio Republican could be forgiven for wondering if his dog was going to turn against him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, House Republicans will have a microscopic majority in a Washington still arrayed against them. It will be hard enough to pass anything consequential or controversial out of the House before it runs into a brick wall in the Democrat-controlled Senate. House Republicans presumably won\u2019t be able to get their handiwork within hailing distance of President Biden\u2019s veto pen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In light of this, the first priority for House Republicans should be tempering expectations. Their most important achievement has already occurred \u2014 namely ensuring that Nancy Pelosi will no longer be the speaker with all that that entails for Biden\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22319832328299.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24707439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22319832328299.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22319832328299.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22319832328299.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22319832328299.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>If House Minority Leader McCarthy becomes speaker of the House, it will require near-unanimous support of his caucus. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Making the most of their opportunity otherwise will require some realism, subtlety and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline-driven fights loom over the debt limit and budget next year. Republicans will want to extract their pound of flesh, but shouldn\u2019t overestimate their influence. They aren\u2019t going to reform entitlements or put the United States on a fundamentally different fiscal path in a dramatic, down-to-the-wire confrontation over the debt limit or a possible government shutdown. Usually, the aggressors in such fights lose, and it\u2019ll be hard to maintain GOP unity, with more cautious Republican senators hesitant to go down this path.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans would be well-served to choose a few plausible policy objectives at the outset of these fights \u2014 say, revoking the new Biden IRS agents \u2014 rather than coming up with large, superficially attractive demands that inevitably have to be abandoned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the investigations. Here, Republicans don\u2019t have to worry about the balancing act involved in getting to 218 votes. The House Oversight Committee can simply get busy. There are still pitfalls to avoid, though.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Hunter Biden investigation obviously needs to focus on public corruption and the question of Joe\u2019s involvement more than Hunter\u2019s lurid personal life. Republicans should steer clear of any counterprogramming on Jan. 6, especially given what the midterms showed about the political costs of any association with Stop the Steal. And impeaching Biden without even a majority in the Senate would be an exercise in futility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, the field is wide open for probes that could be substantively important and politically useful, whether on the origins of COVID, how the CDC and other government entities responded to the pandemic, the Afghan withdrawal, and government pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> companies.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, House Republicans should pass legislation, not in the hopes of getting any of it signed, but to show that the party has a solution-oriented agenda. This was an element of the party\u2019s message that was woefully lacking in the run-up to the midterms.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/john-boehner-kevin-mccarthy-2011.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A picture of John Boehner (in front) and Eric Cantor and Kevin McCarthy in the back.\" class=\"wp-image-24707479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/john-boehner-kevin-mccarthy-2011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/john-boehner-kevin-mccarthy-2011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/john-boehner-kevin-mccarthy-2011.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>John Boehner previously held the position of speaker of the House of Representatives during the years of President Barack Obama.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They should pass bills to address inflation, support families, control the border, move toward a more merit-based legal immigration system, push back against the woke education bureaucracy, reduce college costs and point in a more sensible direction on crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The party should demonstrate that it\u2019s pro-family and pro-law-and-order while trying to sell itself to the middle again as serious and competent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be no small task with a very narrow, fractious majority, but no one said Kevin McCarthy\u2019s job would be easy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RickLowry<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Assuming he becomes speaker of the House, which will require the near-unanimous support of his caucus and isn\u2019t necessarily a foregone conclusion, he\u2019s signing up for the most miserable experience of any congressional leader&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":512108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/kevin-mccarthy-house-republican-leadership-boehner-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[135779,102745,35813,54077,67844,123192,70922],"class_list":["post-512107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-18-22","tag-john-boehner","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-republicans","tag-speaker","tag-us-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}