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POWER

We can spend all week counting how many seats the Democratic Party will gain in the mid-term.

It would be nice to have an avalanche.

But, do you realize? They only need enough to elect the Speaker and to set up the Committee Chairmen. One extra seat could do that.

Once that is done, the rest is all discussion. The majority party rules. Period. End of discussion.

The minority party, in the words of a Speaker long ago, shuts up and collects their paycheck. They do not introduce bills, they do not conduct the hearings, the do not control the considerable patronage.

Of course, the more seats the more power. Sure.

But the powers of the Speakership and the Chairs are absolute. The GoOpers will eat shit for two years.