Biden's agenda may rest on centrist Republicans -- and the return of a bygone Senate era
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to take dramatic action to address the most pressing issues of American life. But the degree that Congress will be part of that effort is likely to depend on a small group of Republican senators and the improbable return of a bygone era of bipartisan cooperation.
Yet if anyone can manage it, senators and operatives from both parties say, it’s Biden — who spent 36 years in the Senate and will enter the White House as the most accomplished legislator to hold the presidency since at least Lyndon B. Johnson.
Those skills will face a daunting test after Biden’s presidential victory failed to produce major Democratic gains in the Senate, leaving control of the chamber dependent on the outcome of a pair of Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia. Many on Capitol Hill are already gaming out scenarios for at least two years of divided government, with Biden forced to wrangle with his former colleague, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
At stake is not only Biden’s policy agenda but the process of filling his Cabinet and other agency posts, as well as the increasingly partisan business of judicial nominations. How Biden navigates the political currents of the Senate could determine such essential matters as the federal government’s fiscal outlook or filling a possible Supreme Court vacancy.
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I hope the Georgia Senate race goes our way. I don't trust Moscow Mitch.
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And the Easter Rabbit and Santa Clause.
I do not, however, believe in a "good" republican. They are as extinct as the dodo. 