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What Can Chuck Schumer Learn From McConnell?
Ossoff and Warnock are set to join the Senate the week of Biden’s inauguration, leaving Democrats without excuses.
With Joe Biden set to be inaugurated January 20th, and new Georgia Senators Ossoff and Warnock set to be sworn in the same week, for the first time since before the 2010 midterm election, the Democratic party will control the House, the Senate, and hold the office of the Presidency. At a moment when the nation is experiencing the greatest public health and economic crisis in modern history, Democrats have been entrusted by the voters to help get the nation through this, and recover. That said, after years of pointing at the Republican party and labeling them active barriers to progress, it will be interesting to see how the Democratic party handles their newfound power when there is no more Mitch McConnell to hide behind.
Frankly, I think that senate Democrats in particular enjoy being in the minority. After all, with increasing pressure to enact more bold policies such as Medicare for all, the Green New Deal, and tuition free public college — policies that lawmakers like Chuck Schumer, Chris Coons, Amy Klobuchar, and Diane Feinstein don’t want to see implemented — it’s been incredibly convenient for the party that supposedly represents the left to point…
