Donald Lambro‘s latest column at Human Events explains why congressional Republicans’ actions over the next two years will have great significance for the nation’s long-term future.
Republicans took control of Congress this week, mindful that their job performance over the next two years is their party’s path to the presidency in 2016.
That is what’s really at stake as House and Senate GOP leaders get down to business in what is shaping up to be a political minefield of legislative statecraft. The Republicans know what it takes to get America back on track, but they face fierce opposition from Democrats, President Obama’s veto pen and the liberal network news media.
The American people, according to the polls, want the Congress to get things done, and they’re tired of legislative gridlock and six years of political infighting. Why can’t they work together for the good of the country and stop all this bickering? the leftist media mavens ask.
What has gotten lost in the dense political fog of policy battles throughout Obama’s presidency is that the fight is between good policy that gets our country moving again and bad policy that’s given us an underperforming, slow-growth, wage-stagnant economy over the past six years.
Obama and the Democrats want to raise income taxes and impose ever more government regulations that slow economic growth, reduce business start-ups, kill jobs and lower incomes that have been flat since 2007.
Republicans want to lower tax rates to encourage new job-creating, capital investment, as we did in the 1980s and 1990s under both Republican and Democratic presidents.
This isn’t a fight to foster gridlock; it’s a battle for common-sense, pro-growth policies versus costly, big-government policies that have irreparably hurt millions of ordinary Americans.
