I'd love to see it. Let's hope these lame ducks can sprint!
I'm not so sure, though, that the new Congress will prove to be a rubber stamp of "HELL NO". The biggest losers last Tuesday were progressives, to be sure - from Karen Porter in Cali to Richard Cordray in Ohio, from Gillum in Florida to Beto in Texas, hard left progressives mostly lost. It was Democrat centrists who won.
And that's why the second biggest losers last Tuesday were conservatives. Conservative policy reform effectively shuts down beginning next year. But Trump is no conservative, he's a deal maker. And if deals are to be made with the new House, he will make them. From infrastructure to trimming the corporate tax cuts to bolstering the ACA markets to relief for the Dreamers - does anyone really think Trump will stick to conservative principles if there are deals to be made?
The Dems aren't as stupid as many here think they are. There will be anti-Trump grandstanding, but, with an eye to 2020, they will not be satisfied with obstruction and gridlock. They will try to cast themselves as can-do legislators, and the new cast of Dem representatives, while beholden to party leadership to be sure, will likely reach out to the like-minded and attempt to form coalitions that can advance legislation. And it won't be the Senate that decides whether that legislation gets passed - it will be Donald Trump. Trump wants his legacy, and that means working with conservatives when conservatives are in power, and with anyone else when they're not. If there's anything that history tells us about Donald Trump, it's that he can turn on a dime. From pro-choice to pro-life and back again. Watch and see.