With House Republicans returning this week from their Baltimore retreat, it is time to start the serious business of doing what a decisive majority of voters demanded in last November’s historic election. To be successful, Republicans must keep three facts constantly before them: First, the decisiveness of that election can never be emphasized enough. Only two years after putting President Obama in the White House and keeping Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in control of the Senate and House, voters rejected Democratic policies and gave Republicans their most massive midterm victory since 1938. Besides putting Republicans back in control of the House, voters also elected 11 new GOP governors and nearly 700 new GOP state legislators, thus giving the party command of the critical redistricting process following the 2010 census. But the depth of the GOP win is mainly a measure of voter rejection of Democratic policies. Republicans are still on probation and will remain there until they deliver what they promised, including repealing and replacing Obamacare, cutting federal spending, deficits and debt, ending oppressive bureaucratic regulation, and restoring economic growth and opportunity.
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