{"id":25424,"date":"2017-10-14T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25424"},"modified":"2017-10-14T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T04:32:14","slug":"watergate-style-blowout-awaits-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25424","title":{"rendered":"Watergate-style blowout awaits GOP?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtpFl4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25425\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtpFl4-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtpFl4-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/AAtpFl4.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz thinks congressional Republicans face the possibility of a &#8220;Watergate-style blowout&#8221; in 2018 if they fail to enact a health care overhaul and reform federal taxes.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Texas Republican U.S. senator is on to something, but perhaps for the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I agree that the GOP is vulnerable to a big mid-term election shellacking, but I disagree with the reasons cited by Cruz.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans might take their hits if they seek to enact a health care overhaul similar to what they sought to do already. As for tax reform, those big cuts for the wealthy aren&#8217;t going over well, either, with the public.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States already has drawn a bead on the Affordable Care Act. He is using his executive authority to dismantle the ACA even <em>before<\/em> Congress approves any sort of replacement.<\/p>\n<p>All the while, the president hasn&#8217;t yet spoken with any semblance of detail about how he intends to replace the ACA. He just keeps yammering about the &#8220;disaster&#8221; that awaits if the ACA remains on the books.<\/p>\n<p>As for tax reform, Donald Trump is equally vague about how his planned tax cuts will boost a national economy that&#8217;s already rocking along fairly nicely.<\/p>\n<p>And so the drama continues. Sen. Cruz thinks the public will vote Republicans out of Congress if they fail to deal with these two issues. I tend to believe the public will rebel if they proceed along the wrongheaded paths they&#8217;ve already staked out.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Republicans suffer those kinds of losses, count me as one American who won&#8217;t shed any tears.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz thinks congressional Republicans face the possibility of a &#8220;Watergate-style blowout&#8221; in 2018 if they fail to enact a health care overhaul and reform federal taxes. I think the Texas Republican U.S. senator is on to something, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. Indeed, I agree that the GOP is vulnerable to a big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watergate-style blowout awaits GOP?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[131,849,1424,1941,4523,4537],"class_list":["post-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-aca","tag-capitol-hill","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-tax-reform","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25426,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions\/25426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}