Change Has Come to Congress

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National Review:


A new Congress begins two weeks from today, and if the American people sense that change is coming, they’re right. We got a preview last week when the president signed a bill that extends current income-tax rates for the next two years. After insisting for the past two years that the best way to help the economy was to send trillions of dollars to bureaucrats in Washington, here was the president praising a tax cut that, as he put it, would help business owners “take the reins of the recovery and propel the economy forward.”

But that surprising admission was only part of it. A day earlier, a group of Senate Republicans whom most people expected to vote for a $1.2 trillion spending bill surprised the political class in Washington by uniting in opposition to it. Once they had absorbed the fact that this bill froze in place for another ten months the big-government policies of the past two years, they changed their minds and their votes. They realized the message voters sent last month was to change the culture in Washington now, not next October.