Politics, Energy, and Other Things: We’re Moving on to 2023 – By Michael McKenna (Real Clear Energy) / Jan 3, 2023
Mercifully, the time has come to close the books on 2022. That means reviewing the year that’s just about over and making some predictions about 2023.
In the interests of full disclosure, a correct record, and as a bit of a nostalgic trip through the year we all just shared, it is worthwhile to assess how closely my predictions for 2022 reflected reality.
The following predictions (some of which were shared with the public in a January 2, 2022 column in the Washington Times and some of which were shared in the January 2021 monthly note to friends and family) were pretty close.
“Team Biden’s campaign for voting reform will collapse almost as soon as it starts. The voting rights push will eventually be reduced to a fix of the Electoral Count Act.” Winner.
“Senate Majority Leader Schumer will fail to alter Senate Rule 22 . . . that rule, which requires 60 votes to proceed to a question in the United States Senate, is designed to protect senators from votes they would rather not take. Most senators understand that, and are also aware that the rule gives them outsized leverage in the event they need it.” It’s pretty easy to predict that Senators (like all of us) will act in their own best interests absent any other compelling exigencies.
