same next time in the filibuster would be gone. i think they will choose not to go there. paul: mary, the other issue, another covid relief bill, i know you can t wait for your check, do you think congress may be going there again using omicron as the excuse? i think it will be very tough, they ve pumped a ton of money into the economy 2021 and we have inflation as a result and i think joe manchin main resistance to the bill apart from problems with the crime issue is the spending and results on a average american families, i think it will be tough for them to do that. paul: dan, i want to put you on the spot, prediction for the midterms, will republicans take the house or not and what about the senate? i think republicans are taking over the house for sure. the question is, how many
paul: mary, talk more about that but because as you go into the second year of the administration, they have a harder time getting things through or not they will focus on the regulatory side, executive orders and try to do with i can t get past from capitol hill the regulation. if you go with financial regulation, climate as a new part of financial regulation, if you put restrictions on oil and gas, that s going to reduce the supply side of the economy and could feed into crisis, am i wrong? that is right and certainly the reason those of us who believe and growth and put emphasis on that is because we think the supply side is very important that i would go back to the monetary angle because i think what we have is a fed that
the biden administration looks like it wants to do. but you know, we know from past presidents these inflation can be politically deadly. mary very briefly what happens when fed starts to raise rates next year? well i m worried that first of all that they re going to delay too long because of omicron is going to slow growth and services. and disruptions are going to continue on the supply side. so i think jay powell is very nervous about removing some of this accommodation. so the longer they wait, the harder they re going to have to slam on brakes and if the federal government is not pushing money into people s pocketbooks consumer spending gong to slow so i think we risk stack inflation. all righty still ahead fda approves first two pills to treat covid-19 as the omicron variant drifts through the united states. dr. marc siegel on this year highs and lows on the fight against the coronavirus.
majorities leader chuck schumer promising promising thit senate will volt on president biden build back better legislation despite west virginia senator joe manchin opposition that spending bill is not only democratic priority that has stalled. this year with voting rights, immigration, and police reform also failing to pass both houses. schumer and house speaker, nancy pelosi grapple with the reality of governing with very narrow majorities. let s bring in our panel, all star panel of wall street journal columnist kim strassel phil and mary o grady so dan i want to give you a crack at that question i ask karl rove how do you explain the white house decision starting in january, with very narrow majorities to try to govern with a left only coalition. all right, paul i m going to give you one piece of the
we are back with dan henninger, mary o grady and kyle peterson. kyle, a huge here for the court, let s start with a vaccine mandate case, a big issue of executive power, how much power it has especially relying on its own reading of regulation, writing in regulation with no explicit authority from congress, how do you think that will go? i think this court will be highly skeptical of the employer mandate on businesses with more than 100 workers and the question really is, did congress give the power to mandate vaccines for testing? i think the answer is probably no and part of it is that covid is not specifically workplace, it s not like a toxin or machine that could hurt you, it s floating around everywhere,