{"id":1731163,"date":"2022-11-09T03:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731163"},"modified":"2022-11-09T03:02:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:02:44","slug":"conservatives-won-but-will-they-make-use-of-their-power-this-time-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservatives-won-but-will-they-make-use-of-their-power-this-time-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Won, But Will They Make Use Of Their Power This Time Around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconservatives-won-but-will-they-make-use-of-their-power-this-time-around%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Election night can feel a rush for conservatives, which makes sense: After a few years, those politicians who rejected the country\u2019s history, attacked the police, weaponized science, and persecuted Christians and their children were finally sent packing.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always good to get a little separation from something as destructive as the modern Democratic Party, but there\u2019s one problem, and it\u2019s what comes next?<\/p>\n<p>Really. Most of us lived through Scott Brown\u2019s special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Just two years after he\u2019d been elected in a historic victory, President Barack Obama had launched his signature legislation to increase government control over health care, and the reaction to his (and the GOP\u2019s) elitist overreaches had finally brought out a previously quiet base of Americans. If he won the election, Scott Brown would break Obama\u2019s supermajority, and stop Obamacare from becoming law.<\/p>\n<p>As the election approached, the excitement spread. My parents took a commercial flight a few days before Election Day where the pilot pranked the intercom system, asking a \u201cSen. Scott Brown to please come to the front of the plane\u201d to raucous applause. When the day finally came, I was off at the D.C. bar I was working at, so flew home to vote and spend my last dollar sharing a room at the campaign\u2019s hotel. \u201cTonight\u2019s Gonna Be A Good Night\u201d blasted out of the speakers, while a smiling Gov. Mitt Romney gave television interviews from the ballroom risers.<\/p>\n<p>I still have the issue of the arch-liberal Boston Globe announcing Brown\u2019s win that night. I saved it because I thought he\u2019d stopped Obamacare from becoming reality. And Brown did try! (At least on that issue.) The Republican Party, however, underestimated the lengths their political opponents would go to wield power and defeat their opponents. Twelve years later, Obamacare is still the law of the land and by now, not even talked about.<\/p>\n<p>Ten months after the special election, Americans got another go at sending their men to Washington. The \u201ctea party wave\u201d was so strong, even the always-confident president appeared quiet and chastened, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-usa-elections-obama\/subdued-obama-says-suffered-a-voter-shellacking-idUKTRE6A21XF20101103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitting to reporters<\/a> his party had lost touch and taken \u201ca shellacking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t give up, eventually warning his opponents, \u201cI\u2019ve got a pen, and I\u2019ve got a phone,\u201d before embarking on an ambitious agenda (that included remaking American citizenship) wielding solely executive power.<\/p>\n<p>There was something to 2016, sure. A total outsider was elected president, and despite years of conspiracy theories, owed nothing to anyone. He\u2019d serve as a wrecking ball, fighting the left on every front they opened, but by 2021, was gone. Just under two years on, Republicans are back. To what end?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, neither Mitch McConnell nor Kevin McCarthy will be winning the presidency (a fact they\u2019ll remind you of ad nauseum), but they will win the power of nominations and the power of the purse. How viciously will they wield the power they\u2019ve been handed?<\/p>\n<p>Will they halt the president\u2019s extremely successful judicial nomination record? Halt it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election night can be fun, but Republicans should not underestimate their opponents&#8217; ability to keep a tight grip on control in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":1731166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}