THE FIX: Were you surprised when House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) used the term “blank check” in a fundraising email to supporters in August? (Exact language: “If we fail to protect our majority in Congress, we could be handing President Hillary Clinton a blank check.”)
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REED: Blank check sounds like a green-eye-shade accountant term. Checks and balances is a lot more powerful.
Congressional Republicans would be smart to wait for the presidential debates to conclude to play such a card.
THE FIX: Why?
REED: The 20 percent undecided and [possibly] voting third party will be making their final decision after the first few debates. And then voters will start to make final decisions on their local races. Time and sequence still counts in politics.
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