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The more serious conservatives who have been at it in and out of government for decades but were not part of Team Trump resolved to wait it out, call balls and strikes, and hope for the best while discouraging the worst. Now as Day 400 approaches, the picture is much better than at Day 100.
“2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said recently. “The best year,” he continued, “on all fronts.” McConnell can be forgiven for forgetting that 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but that year aside, he’s right. To review:
Business and consumer confidence is peaking at home, boosted by the massive tax cut and long-overdue tax reform that included significant simplification. The real results of this bill are appearing in paychecks and pay and benefit increases across the country.
Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) addition to the tax bill repealed the worst part of Obamacare, the individual mandate. Now the bipartisan spending bill has shuttered the Independent Payment Advisory Board while postponing or repealing some of Obamacare’s most destructive tax features. The old law is effectively gutted.
The United States is out of the one-sided Paris accord while open to steps toward genuine protection of the climate. The EPA is refining its rulemaking process in ways that rule-of-law conservatives hope will conform the agency’s new rules to the designs and ends Congress intended for them, reversing the warped power grabs of the administrative state they had become.
The more serious conservatives who have been at it in and out of government for decades but were not part of Team Trump resolved to wait it out, call balls and strikes, and hope for the best while discouraging the worst. Now as Day 400 approaches, the picture is much better than at Day 100.
“2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said recently. “The best year,” he continued, “on all fronts.” McConnell can be forgiven for forgetting that 1989 saw the collapse of the Berlin Wall, but that year aside, he’s right. To review:
Business and consumer confidence is peaking at home, boosted by the massive tax cut and long-overdue tax reform that included significant simplification. The real results of this bill are appearing in paychecks and pay and benefit increases across the country.
Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) addition to the tax bill repealed the worst part of Obamacare, the individual mandate. Now the bipartisan spending bill has shuttered the Independent Payment Advisory Board while postponing or repealing some of Obamacare’s most destructive tax features. The old law is effectively gutted.
The United States is out of the one-sided Paris accord while open to steps toward genuine protection of the climate. The EPA is refining its rulemaking process in ways that rule-of-law conservatives hope will conform the agency’s new rules to the designs and ends Congress intended for them, reversing the warped power grabs of the administrative state they had become.
