The new year is for the U.S. Congress mandated a turning point in Barack Obama. Wednesday, January 5 at the official opening of Parliament, the Republicans nominated in the midterm elections come to Parliament and will tip the majority in the House of Representatives. For American commentators, it is time to assess the likely success of an Assembly that could oppose fiercely on two major points: the health reform, dear Mr.Obama and the Republicans have still not accepted, and reducing the federal budget supported by Republicans. These two topics have been the subject of discussions and votes during the "lame duck session" - session "lame duck" short term period between the mid-term elections and the inauguration of newly elected MPs .
This "lame duck session" has yet seen the adoption of many important texts, including further tax cuts implemented by George W. Bush, a compromise that Mr. Obama won by forcing Republicans to vote for the extended benefits for unemployed at the end of law. For the majority of American media, the ability to bring compromise is the challenge facing Barack Obama and newly elected parliamentarians.
The New York Times, a negative vote ("Repeal") of the health reform by the Republican would be an "open war" particularly explicit and symbolic. However, it could be "a chance for Democrats to test the support they receive from the Americans on this reform." "If we stick to the legislative framework that has already been voted, the newspaper said, consumers are already a number of advantages that the Republicans would be willing to remove them." For the New York daily, it is not clear whether the Americans accept it back.
Especially since the cost of the device ceases to be reassessed, rather in the right direction, "the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the cost of reforming the health system would reduce deficits of more than $ 140 billion in ten years, largely because the new spending would be largely offset by new taxes and a slowdown in the growth of Medicare program expenditures.
" But be careful not to underestimate the ambitions of the Republicans on budget cuts, warns the Wall Street Journal: "Paul Ryan, the new head of the Budget Committee, has already said he would wait projections Congressional Budget to define the limits of a spending program that he wants to return - excluding costs related to security - the level before the economic rescue plan.
" The newspaper also points out that Republicans want to invest in other fields of action, including limiting commitments on the environment and tougher immigration laws. This second part of term will provide an opportunity to the President and parliamentarians to engage in a long breath to defend their bills.
However, political analysts are quick to point out that this culture of compromise has already been widely tested by the Obama Administration and Congress in the first two years of its mandate. As such, the site Salon insists that "2010 has not been a bad year for Obama," it was a productive year on the contrary, "precisely productivity based on compromise, especially when discussing the taxation that took place during the "lame duck session.
(...) No modern president has lost so many seats in midterm elections that Obama in 2010, yet no modern president has received a post-election parliamentary session as dynamic as that (he) is to preside. "And the Democrats could to some extent be supported in the next two years by the presence at the head of the House John Boehner, a policy deemed" not an ideologue "by the Christian Science Monitor , which in November stood a portrait of a man "pragmatic", "without being a strong supporter of the compromise between the two parties." The newspaper wishes to recall the precedent of 1995 after taking control of Congress, Republicans had impeded any legislative compromise, showing the most adamant of the topics discussed.
As a result, "it was Bill Clinton who came out victorious." The Democratic chairman has indeed been re-elected. It's a safe bet that the Republicans will not want not retry this gamble, writes the newspaper.'s side is also optimistic of the Washington Post, for which "the Democrats have not exceeded during the previous legislature, instead they steadily lost ground." The advantage of a stronger presence in the Republican Congress would "clarify the confusing debate on taxation" and especially to "force the Republicans to quickly reveal the extent of cuts they should operate in the federal budget to cover the cost of their obsession with anti-tax ".
Another advantage of the Democrats, Vice President Joe Biden, who has shown a very outspoken parliamentarians appreciated, especially when considering the Start disarmament treaty with Russia. For political news site McClatchy, Joe Biden, experienced in political maneuvering in Washington own, could play the role of "president by proxy" with Congress, to wrest bipartisan compromise.
Advantage Joe Biden does not hesitate to "slightly deviate from the line presidential," the site. A threat does appear to move away, to see that members of the Tea Party playing a leading role in Washington. It is clear that since the election results, the enthusiasm for this group particularly radical and anti-establishment Republican Party has largely deflated.
Feeling cheated by the party cadres, who have given very little room for members of the Tea Party when forming their teams, they are likely to express their anger. For the Los Angeles Times, "Tea Party leaders say they are prepared to avoid the flaws in which have fallen in previous movements of the same type.
Arguing that "their activists are more engaged and invested," "they plead not for a single cause but a campaign for 'find America' (" restore America "). Yet, this election did not prove to live up to their expectations, the newspaper said: "They have failed to install their favorites at the head of two powerful committees (...) and they were divided on the tax compromise negotiated by Obama and the Republicans.
" The bitter fact is, adds the New York Times, which said that "more than forty candidates elected to the House and Senate have been supported by the Tea Party". Despite this, noted the daily, "it has lost the battle for important appointments" and "Tea Party leaders are upset that Washington has barely noticed that American voters were against the political establishment ".
"Ten Conservative forward" to read in English on Slate. com. Read the editorial of the World: "Barack Obama or the virtues of centrism." Audrey Fournier
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