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Trump has been a useful idiot for the Republicans, so the Democrats are hoping to have their turn. This is a new twist on the old two party shell game, that the DSA-Our Revolutipn left will bear a share of responsibility for in the Democrats take control of the House. Also, the implications for Democratic plans for impeachment are there for anyone interested to read. First Up if Democrats Win: Campaign and Ethics Changes, Infrastructure and Drug Prices Representative Nancy Pelosi says House Democrats will focus on infrastructure and prescription drug costs, in an effort to test President Trump on bipartisan deals, if they gain control of Congress in the midterm election.CreditCreditErin Schaff for The New York Times New York Times By Nicholas Fandos Oct. 31, 2018 WASHINGTON — Democrats would use their first month in the House majority to advance sweeping changes to future campaign and ethics laws, requiring the disclosure of shadowy political donors, outlawing the gerrymandering of congressional districts and restoring key enforcement provisions to the Voting Rights Act, top Democratic leaders said on Tuesday. If they win, they would then turn to infrastructure investment and the climbing costs of prescription drugs, answering voter demands and challenging President Trump’s willingness to work on shared policy priorities with a party he has vilified. The idea, said Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, is to show voters that Democrats are a governing party, not the leftist mob that Mr. Trump describes — and to extend an arm of cooperation to the president after an electoral rebuke. “This is going to be a bitter pill for them all to swallow when they see the election results, if they turn out as we expect,” Ms. Pelosi said in an extended interview on Tuesday, predicting a Democratic wave. She added of the prospect Mr. Trump would collaborate, “I don’t think he himself knows what he is going to do.” As Mr. Trump spends the final week of a scorched-earth midterm campaign rallying his base around hot-button immigration issues and depicting Democrats as a security threat, Ms. Pelosi and her deputies sought to project a more modest and politically popular agenda on issues ranging from health care to criminal justice changes. They said they would work to improve the Affordable Care Act, for example, rather than rushing to replace it with a single-payer health care plan. Full article here https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/us/politics/democrats-midterm-elections.html _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
