Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America by David Horowitz

Author:David Horowitz [Horowitz, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: POL040010 Political Science / American Government / Executive Branch, POL028000 Political Science / Public Policy / General
Publisher: Humanix Books
Published: 2017-01-16T22:00:00+00:00

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Obstructionism Is a Good Thing If the Policies Are Bad

IN BUDGET FIGHTS AND in votes over Obamacare and other legislative programs, Democrats accuse Republicans of being obstructionists. The tactic works, intimidating them sufficiently to make them relent and allow the Democrats to prevail. Republicans back off because they fear the negative reviews in the Democrat-dominated press and a loss of support from the voting public when the Democrats begin accusing them of taking away programs that benefit women, minorities, and the poor. In the short run—and in the absence of a counterattack—Republicans may suffer from saying no, but in surrendering these battles over and over, they lose the war.

Andrew McCarthy has provided a sobering thought exercise for Republicans who think a submarine mentality is the way to win the political war:

To illustrate the emptiness of arguments by apologists for the Republican Congress, one need only ask what would happen if the roles were reversed. What if a Republican president tried to rein in entitlement spending? What if he unilaterally announced that, in an exercise of “prosecutorial discretion,” tax evasion laws would not be enforced to collect corporate taxes above ten percent of income? What if his IRS targeted progressive activists and his Justice Department stonewalled congressional investigations—including one involving a case in which an inane law-enforcement tactic (e.g., gun-walking) got a federal agent killed? We needn’t tarry long on this. A Democratic Congress would throw down the gauntlet and risk a government shutdown in order to force the president to back down. A Democratic Congress would not hesitate to impeach the IRS commissioner and the attorney general; and it would relish impeaching the president himself—calculating that even if Democrats lost, they would leave the president battered and impotent.1

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