March 19, 2015 --

On November 4, 2014, U.S. voters elected Republicans to majority control in the Senate and increased the GOP majority in the House to 247, compared with 188 Democrats. (Since January, there are two GOP House vacancies.) The wrong conclusion is that the voters elected Republicans to resist an aggrandizing president, backed by zealous Democrats. To the contrary,
our elections have become charades intended to fool the American people into believing Washington cannot act without the consent of the governed. Consequently, LPR here proposes that election day in the U.S. be switched to April 1, as the Washington establishment has no intention of acting with the consent of the governed.

The New York Times, in a March 17 editorial, calls on Republicans to confirm the nomination of Loretta Lynch as attorney general, "to reassure the country of their ability to govern now that they control both houses of Congress." This is another early April fool on Times readers. It should be obvious to one and all that The New York Times has zero interest in Republican governance. When The New York Times calls on Republicans to "do the job Americans elected them to do," the Times is really calling on the GOP to do what President Obama wants them to do.