-Source-Chicago Tribune-
Dear Democrats: Congratulations. You had your big chance in this week’s midterm elections to blunt President Donald Trump’s demagoguery, and you didn’t totally blow it.
That’s not a small thing. Sure, you’re disappointed that you didn’t win more Senate seats or more governors’ mansions. But you won a majority of the House. You expanded representation by women and people of color. You can now take charge of House committees and their subpoena power.
I don’t know whether Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat and one of Trump’s favorite punching bags in his rally speeches, can or will use the chairmanship of the House Financial Services Committee, for which she is next in line, to subpoena the president’s tax returns, which he refuses to release. But, ah, isn’t it pretty to think she will. Read more