{"id":1771114,"date":"2022-12-10T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1771114"},"modified":"2022-12-10T09:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T14:19:28","slug":"scot-faulkner-how-republicans-can-regain-the-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scot-faulkner-how-republicans-can-regain-the-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot Faulkner: How Republicans Can Regain the Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fscot-faulkner-how-republicans-can-regain-the-initiative%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=1771114&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/cdn\/hodl\/2021\/209\/71e2c6e2-6c4a-458b-94b9-ff77d79b0cbe.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"     style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">The Republican Congress has a small window of opportunity to redefine the political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Will Republicans repeat history or make history?<\/p>\n<p>Remember 2011? \u00a0Republicans won an historic number of seats in 2010 only to become disappointingly ineffective. \u00a0A thundering herd of elephants birthed mice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will face several challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, most media will declare the \u201cend of days\u201d and breathlessly report the coming \u201cRepublican apocalypse\u201d in detail. \u00a0They will demonize every incoming Republican with cherry-picked \u201cfacts\u201d and an endless array of fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Second, Republicans will not be unified. \u00a0They rarely are. \u00a0Conservatives should remember that just because Members of Congress are \u201cR\u201ds they are not necessarily \u201cours.\u201d \u00a0There are moderate and liberal Republicans, along with swamp dwellers, timid souls, and special interest conflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, even with a slim majority, can make a difference if they achieve four major goals: Expose; End; Equip; Endure.<\/p>\n<p>EXPOSE<\/p>\n<p>Congress has a fundamental duty to conduct oversight and hold those in power accountable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This begins with Congress itself. \u00a0Republican leaders must immediately demand that January 6, 2021, videos from all 1,800 Capitol Hill cameras are preserved. \u00a0Any cameras \u201cnot working on that day,\u201d and \u201clost&#8221; or \u201cdamaged\u201d videos, must be fully explained and documented.<\/p>\n<p>On January 6, 2023, Congress embraces transparency by releasing all January 6 videos from all cameras unedited or redacted. \u00a0Let Americans see for themselves what happened.<\/p>\n<p>To follow-up, Congress then identifies law enforcement shown on Capitol security and news videos helping protesters by unlocking and opening doors, removing security barriers, waving them to the Capitol, or standing-by passively. \u00a0Each law enforcement officer should be individually brought behind closed doors and asked, under oath, \u201cwho told you to do that?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those who \u201cwere following orders\u201d will be asked, \u201cwhose orders?\u201d \u00a0Their superiors are brought forward and asked the same questions. \u00a0Congressional Q&#038;A continues until top law enforcement officials either assert they initiated rules of engagement themselves or identify orders from specifically named elected officials. \u00a0These communications would then be released to the public.<\/p>\n<p>There are countless Biden abominations that deserve investigation. \u00a0Republicans must heed the lessons from their ineffectual pursuit of Obama scandals. \u00a0Subpoenas will be ignored, documents will be withheld, slow walked, or become \u201cmissing,\u201d witnesses will refuse to testify, lie, or obfuscate.<\/p>\n<p>The gold standard remains the 1973 Watergate Committee. \u00a0They began with the lowest level people and worked their way up to the top. \u00a0Questions were asked and Members waited for answers instead of launching into finger waving monologues. \u00a0Public hearings are theatrical events. Republicans need to manage the plot, characters, and answers beforehand and build a narrative. \u00a0The truth is out there but is nearly impossible to uncover in a timely enough manner to matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nonpartisan oversight should also occur, using hundreds of reports published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the 72 Department and Agency Inspectors General. \u00a0Americans need to repeatedly hear about the mindboggling expanse of waste, fraud, and abuse that is endemic in the Federal Government. \u00a0This validates the next Republican President\u2019s reform agenda.<\/p>\n<p>END<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will end new Biden initiatives and reduce his ability for mischief. They can defund programs, positions, and people. \u00a0They can turn campaign promises into reality by introducing legislation addressing voter priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Justification through hearings and legislation will reveal and debunk the underlying dogma that is driving the Biden agendas for climate change and wokism. \u00a0Deindustrializing America is foundational to Biden\u2019s assault on energy independence. \u00a0Showcasing silenced experts on these matters is vital.<\/p>\n<p>Biden will veto everything Republicans do, and they will not have the votes to override. Republicans can counter by thinking well ahead of these predictable moves. Biden vetoes will become opportunities to contrast Republican voter-endorsed solutions with how Biden\u2019s policies destroy America. This builds the case for change in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>EQUIP<\/p>\n<p>Republicans used the last two years of President Jimmy Carter to pave the way for the Reagan Revolution. \u00a0The next two years can equip the next Republican President with ideas and actions that will define the political landscape for 2024 and beyond. Through hearings, legislation, and floor speeches, they can build a mandate for the next Republican President to \u201chit the ground running.\u201d \u00a0 This change agenda will generate Leftist attacks, providing insights for Republican counter measures when they are reintroduced in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>ENDURE<\/p>\n<p>The Washington, DC swamp is far deeper and extensive than anyone ever realized. \u00a0Republicans who cannot be bought-off or scared-off will be relentlessly savaged. \u00a0Democrats are known for locking arms and never breaking ranks. \u00a0Republicans shoot their wounded, even ones with minor injuries. \u00a0Time to think strategically and prepare for future battles.<\/p>\n<p>To save America we must think past one election, one hearing, or one piece of legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It took years for the Left to gain the upper hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will take years to end their reign.<\/p>\n<p><em>Scot Faulkner served as Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives and helped lead Speaker Newt Gingrich&#8217;s Congressional Transition in 1994. He was Director of Personnel for the 1980 Reagan Campaign and served on the Presidential Transition team. \u00a0He currently advises corporations on implementing strategic change.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Congress has a small window of opportunity to redefine the political landscape.Will Republicans repeat history or make history?Remember 2011? \u00a0Republicans won an historic number of seats in 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896389,"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":[547],"tags":[5458,7555,7049,7554,3819,3756,7553],"class_list":["post-1771114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-faulkner","tag-initiative","tag-regain","tag-report","tag-republicans","tag-scot"],"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\/1771114","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}