Since it appears we will be stuck with Mitch McConnell for another 6 years, the only thing we can do to ensure that real changes are made in our government is to gain control of the Senate. If we do not, McConnell and his cronies will deny Biden the opportunity to appoint progressive judges and will have an outsize and deleterious influence on who he can appoint to his cabinet. “Advice and consent” by the Senate is set out in the Constitution but has rarely been exercised in the hypocritical McConnell manner.
The Georgia Senate races are the key. While I am not particular about any of the Georgia candidates, if I lived in Georgia I know who I’d be voting for.
After Biden’s win, parties gird for ferocious Senate runoffs in Georgia
By Sean Sullivan, Annie Linskey and Chelsea Janes
November 8, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST
Republicans looking to turn the page on President Trump’s defeat shifted their attention to the runoffs, framing them as a last line of defense against a left-wing agenda. Democrats, seeking to capitalize on their momentum and celebratory mood, promoted the races as the best way to advance Biden’s policies.
That makes the Jan. 5 runoffs an unusual finale to a tempestuous campaign rocked by a deadly pandemic, a national reckoning on race and an economic free-fall. The races will unfold in a rapidly diversifying state that has become a national bellwether, one whose votes split nearly evenly between Biden and Trump. Read HERE.
“If Democrats fail to pull off an improbable triumph in the Peach State, then the Biden presidency will be doomed to failure before it starts. With Mitch McConnell in control of the Senate, Biden will not be allowed to appoint a Supreme Court justice, or appoint liberals to major cabinet positions, or sign his name to a major piece of progressive legislation; and that may very well mean that the U.S. government will not pass any significant climate legislation, or expansion of public health insurance, or immigration reform, or gun safety law this decade,” writes Eric Levitz in New York Magazine.