The best thing about the incoming Republican House majority is that the news media, e.g. NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS will be complaining bitterly that all of our problems are due to the Congress much of which is correct.
The worst thing will be the glowing reports we will get about outlaw executive orders by the president and the statesmanlike Senate.
news media, e.g. NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS
The above is the “legacy†or government-run news media. It prints, broadcasts, and analyzes “news,†facts, trends according to the guidelines and script given by the political establishment and the global hierarchy – mainly those who meet in Davos to determine future world policy. From such a media people receive cherry-picked and/or highly censored news streams. Consequently the real COVID stats have been clothed in lies and propaganda. Early treatments, with FDA approved and repurposed drugs, that could have been used instead of questionable gene therapies, erroneously called vaccines, are repudiated, criticized and then dismissed. Mexican border insurgency and chaos are ignored or downplayed. Photo ops with Biden are disingenuously staged and reported on by the government-aligned press. Our interest in Ukraine’s border conflict muddied, but nonetheless sustained by massive amounts of US funding and armaments with no audits and little investigative interference by the media. Our 31 trillion plus debt is seen as “normal’ fiscal policy under the Dems, and then excoriated, with inflationary problems blamed on the republicans once the R-controlled House gets rolling.
Such a lopsided rendering of domestic and world events are leading people to seek alternative news sources – ones that parlay unfiltered facts, figures and information that have not been strained through politically correct language and one-sided interpretation. Hence we’re witnessing budding news organizations, newscasts, blogs, conferences, seminars becoming popular, fulfilling the public’s need to have a more honest, transparent, willing-to-be-challenged version of “the news.â€
I’m not sure if it actually happened, but one good thing might be a step toward regular order and the ability of regular members to propose amendments on the floor – something that ended during Ryan’s speakership and was continued by Pelosi.
Our dumb media have not talked about how the power and role of the Speaker have changed over the last decade, and particularly since Gingrich started that ball rolling, but it’s critical for understanding Congressional dysfunction.
Not that I expect this Congress to do anything of value. McCarthy is not – shall we say – a man of principle, and it’s well known the current GoP has no real agenda apart from tax cuts, opposing whatever Democrats support, and owning the libs.