Stopping Biden Comes Down to This

Washington, D.C. – Politicians in both parties should be very careful about how they interpret the results of the last election. The country is divided and on just about every issue but one. Most all agree: Joe Biden is doing a bad job as president.

Even Democrats think so. According to the exit polls, almost two-thirds of those who voted want someone else as their party's nominee in the next national election. For the GOP, the places that were already red where their candidates were able to make that case got redder. A lot of blue places – which includes most of the seats the Republicans targeted – also got redder, just not red enough.

The post-election analysis is focused too much on the failure to meet pre-election expectations rather than on what actually happened. Independents held the balance of power in 2022 and, in supposedly swing areas, they found the arguments against Donald Trump and the candidates he endorsed more persuasive than anything the GOP had to say about Biden, inflation and interest rates.

When you consider how much the GOP vote total went up from what it was in 2018 and 2020 and how many votes the Democrats lost over that same period, a majority of those who cast ballots on Nov. 8 may not want Trump in charge, but they don't want Biden in charge either. What they want, and what they're going to get, is for the next two years for the federal government to do very little.

There are ways to make that happen. The best, most efficient of them is to make sure Herschel Walker wins the Georgia Senate runoff on Dec. 4. Ironically, one of the greatest running backs in the history of college football is now the key to creating the congressional gridlock needed to save the country, but there you are. The voters want inflation down, job creation to continue, peace abroad, security at home and the chance to return to a normal, affordable life post-COVID.

The only way they're likely to get that is if a majority of Georgia voters elect Walker, ensuring the U.S. Senate remains tied, 50-50.

In that scenario, the Democrats remain in charge, thanks to the ability of Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties but can't run roughshod over the Republicans like they could if they won control of the chamber outright.

Under the “power-sharing” agreement reached by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., before the start of the last Congress, each committee and subcommittee have the same number of Democrats and Republicans. Staff ratios, while not equal, are quite similar. If anything is going to be done under regular order, it must be done collegially.

Given how split the Senate is from an ideological standpoint, that doesn't happen often. So these accommodations prevent the Democrats from trampling on the rights of Senate Republicans to offer amendments, force the consideration of nominees, and keep the policy train on the tracks leading to floor consideration. A Senate split 51-49 because the Republicans lost in Georgia on Dec. 4 would be a very different world.

Instead of committees and subcommittees equally divided when considering radical proposals to continue the war on domestic energy, key panels would tilt to the left by two or even three seats. On the Senate floor, it would take the opposition of more than just one Democrat to hold up the consideration of any legislation. In that environment, Biden's Build Better 2.0 (or would it be 3.0?) would easily pass.

It's not all rosy for the Democrats. The new Republican-led House of Representatives is an obvious thorn in their collective side as the GOP now controls the agenda, determines what comes to the floor, and whether or not to allow debate on the Capitol's south side. Or should anyway. The noise coming from some members of the Freedom Caucus gives the Democrats hope the new Speaker will have to make deals with the opposition, as Ohio Republican John Boehner did before him because the right flank of the GOP caucus will refuse to provide the votes to pass anything that isn't, by their rather unusual standards, perfect.

If Congress ends up split between an unstable House GOP majority and an outright Democrat majority in the Senate, it gives Biden and the radicals a fighting chance to make laws out of newly-resurrected social and economic proposals most people thought were dead and buried.

The Republicans might be able to stop them, but they'll have to be creative. To do things that are unexpected as well as unconventional. As “Otter” famously says about the Omegas and the leadership of Faber College near the end of Animal House:

“We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!”

That “gesture” would be electing Walker, winning the Georgia runoff. A Dec. 4 victory sharply reduces the chances McConnell and his understaffed, underrepresented Republicans will have to fight it out on the line, in committee, subcommittees and on the Senate floor, day by day, issue by issue, until they are exhausted.

If you object to the suggestion the effort to propel Walker to victory is a “futile and stupid gesture,” take heart. It was meant in good fun and likely got your attention. Take note as well that there are those Georgians who, as they were voting to reelect GOP Gov. Brian Kemp by a considerable margin, either voted for the Democrat for Senate or skipped the race entirely.

When all that mattered was who would represent Georgia in the Senate, that might be excusable. It is no longer. Those who are or by station and stature ought to be opposed to the way Biden and his political allies want to remake America in their radical image, there's no time for dithering. There's too much at stake.

Things, as some analysts have suggested, might be hopeless. Too many people may consider Walker too flawed to ever consider voting for him. The Democrat's ability to get their vote out by mail and during early balloting far exceeds what the Republicans have shown they can do. That may be discouraging but it is not an excuse to go down without a fight. Winning in Georgia means gridlock in Washington while GOP reformers in Florida and Iowa and Texas and Indiana and elsewhere show what real, positive alternatives to the proposals coming out of the White House look like. Winning in Georgia means stopping Biden. Winning in Georgia now means winning for America in 2024.

Anyone on the center-right — whether they're arch-conservative, lean libertarian or are a traditional, moderate Republican — has no excuse to sit this race out. A vote for Walker is a vote for the best of America as we knew it before the Biden presidency and for the best America can be after he's gone.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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