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Something to look forward to

by Tom Sullivan

Republicans have stopped short of declaring the only good Democratic president is a politically dead one. But they are getting into the spirit of things in time for the inauguration:

If the GOP wins either or both chambers of Congress next week, and Clinton takes the White House, she’s likely to come under investigation by Capitol Hill from Day One, or possibly before she’s even sworn in. FBI Director James Comey’s recent decision to revisit the probe of her email setup, and an assortment of Justice sources who’ve leaked to the press since Friday, have armed GOP lawmakers with more than enough ammunition to rev up their own investigations, say Republican sources on Capitol Hill.

The dynamic could sour relations between Clinton and Capitol Hill from the get-go, dousing any hope of even a brief honeymoon for Clinton should she defeat Donald Trump next week.

It's the least they could do. If they could do less, they would.

And they are just getting warmed up:

Over the weekend, North Carolina Senator Richard Burr became the latest Republican to indicate that the Senate will continue its policy of what amounts to judicial nullification by blocking any justices nominated for the Supreme Court by a Democratic president. Speaking to a bunch of GOP volunteers at a private event, Burr promised that Merrick Garland, nominated by President Obama to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat, will not get a confirmation vote even in the lame-duck congressional session after next week’s election. As for Hillary Clinton nominating a Scalia replacement after taking office in January, Burr said:
And if Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.

Just as Trump University was education in form but without substance, the GOP now presents a form of governence without any actual governing. The Republican Party has devolved into a child's "dress up" version of how government works.

Perhaps it's fitting. They have nominated for president a candidate who talks at a third-grade level, writes like a fourth-grader, and if he loses the election next week will throw a tantrum about how he's been cheated. The man-child who insists his opponent "shouldn’t be allowed to run" because of a "very serious crime" he cannot specify might himself be disallowed from running for not having "attained to the Age of thirty-five Years" emotionally.

Should Hillary Clinton win the presidency next week, the world can look forward to the spectacle of Republican Party leaders acting out the political equivalent of holding their breath until their faces turn blue.

As if that weren't enough:

After dropping out of the Republican Wyoming Senate primary in 2014, Dick Cheney's daughter Liz Cheney is all but guaranteed to bring the family name back to Washington as she runs to represent Wyoming in Congress. Cheney's name in itself paired with her tough conservative talk and her uncompromising support of Republican nominee Donald Trump could make her an instant star on Capitol Hill for a Republican Party that has long been looking for women leaders in the House. Cheney's father was first elected to the same seat nearly 40 years ago.

Mom? Dad? Are we there yet?