I am not a prophet of gloom and doom and have never been a pessimist in my eighty-plus years on this planet.

But having been in government for over 30 years, I can foretell what a new Republican House of Representatives will look like when the next session of the House convenes on January 20 and the news isn’t good for the people of America.

To be able to predict what will happen with a change of control all you have to do is pay some attention to the people who will be members of the House in January.

You may laugh at Marjorie Taylor Greene(R-GA.) who claims she has spoken to many of the majority to be and stated that the first order of business is to begin impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden.

The Biden impeachment will likely fail in the House but it will take up the first four to six months of the next session.

The next topic on the new House agenda will be a national ban on abortion. Currently, there are over 150 Republicans running for re-election or election, who have pledged that they will support a national ban on abortions.

That is more than half of the Republican conference, which means that a concerted effort will be made to achieve that goal. Dozens of Republican House members seeking re-election have been scrubbing their websites to keep out the national ban language, but that changes nothing from their January goal.

Many of the current Republican House members whose lives were threatened on January 6th, have stated that their earliest priority will be shutting down the committee investigating the insurrection and begin hearings to show that the riots were just a “peaceful demonstration that got out of hand.”

Their main goal is to show that former President Trump did not play a role in the event and he was just as shocked as they were over the demonstration at the Capitol.

While the impeachment proceedings are proceeding, a committee led by Congressman Jim Jordan(R-OH) will begin hearings into why Hunter Biden has not been prosecuted by the Department of Justice.

They will subpoena Biden to come before the committee so that the majority can take out all of their grievances with President Biden on his son. They will display the contents of Hunter’s laptop on a large screen and attempt to show that the current president profited from his son’s business activities.

The next priority of the new gang is to pass as many bills as possible protecting assault weapons from being regulated by any state law. If you think this is just an over-exaggeration, then you haven’t heard about a current lawsuit started in the New York courts to throw out the restriction of no guns on the property of religious institutions.

The plaintiffs argue that parishioners should be allowed to carry guns of any kind to protect themselves at a church service. The lawsuit was started by a Republican-led group from upstate New York.

Do you want to exercise your right to apply for an absentee ballot when circumstances allow it? Most of us want that right, but you can bet that absentee ballots will be a Republican target in 2023.

There is currently a lawsuit in Albany Supreme Court, started by the state Republican Party, to stop people from using absentee ballots because they are COVID anxious. If you recently attended a church or a synagogue, you will notice that there are still people wearing masks for fear of getting sick. Many of those people are reluctant to go to a polling place.

Many of our readers may say that this is political hogwash and the Republican majority will instead propose a positive agenda to curb inflation and resolve the immigration debate.

I suggest that you clip out this column and every time something that I predicted happens, send a $10 donation to your favorite charity. I will send the same amount if any of these items doesn’t happen during the first year that the new majority power is in power.