The End of The Year
New Year’s Day is just two weeks away, and we turn the calendar away from this dreaded year of 2020.
But obviously, our problems won’t as easily be dismissed.
The first month of 2021 promises to be a doozy. A new Congress takes over, apparently with the thought of meeting for the first time ever on Sunday to start a session. If all the Biden cabinet nominees shake out, and if Democrats don’t steal the Iowa second district race, they’ll have 219 seats…only one more than a majority. The Senate will start a seat short, thanks to Georgia’s special elections…which, of course, are two days after the new Congress starts…oh, and the Electoral College votes are officially counted the day after that, with the drama of possible objections and such still looming.
And that’s only in week one.
There will be more coronavirus vaccines distributed, but now that we’ve already had the promised supply cut in our state and others by a third, there will be continued uncertainty about just how many doses will go where.
If everything goes as it appears, there will be the end of one presidential administration and the beginning of another, with an inauguration unlike any other except perhaps the first, thanks to COVID-19. Obviously, the parler game of “will he or won’t he attend” will play out.
As will the other game, “who gets a pardon”. Presidential administrations are famous for handing them out like candy at the end, and speculation abounds about family members and self-pardons.
And that takes us only 20 days into the new year. I hope that’s the peak, because I don’t think any of us want another year like this one has been.News/Talk 1540 KXEL · Iowa Politics — Fri. Dec. 18, 2020
