The REPUBS actually have full control of ALL 3 branches of our "check & balance" system starting this week:
- Executive, now with vastly expanded powers and virtually no risk of legal retribution if that power is abused,
- Congress, of which Senate is only half, and
- Judicial.
It is one of those rare times where one party is
completely in charge and can just about do anything & everything they want to do... for at least
TWO years. Let's hope our collective choices to give one party a "blank check" on power pays off well for all of us. There's basically nothing to "balance" the GOP for 2+ years except any of their own concerns about how the
next election- if there is one- may go.
The lone negative about this setup through GOP eyes is that by fully controlling all of it, they also fully own
all of what their choices & actions do. There's no "other party" to blame when one party has complete say. So the GOP now fully owns the impacts of whatever they choose to do. If that's all wonderful & great for all, terrific! But if that goes sour, we voters "made our bed... so lie in it." We'll see... likely very
soon.