End of the Hastert rule?
In the 2000s when the GOP controlled the House of Representatives, Representative Dennis Hastert served as House Speaker. Under his leadership, the GOP implemented what is known as the “Hastert rule”, which basically states that no bill would ever come to a vote unless it had the support of a “majority of the majority”, aka a majority of House Republicans.
At the time, this rule gave conservatism an iron tight grip over legislation; however, changing electoral moods have stripped conservatism of any popular mandate it may have once enjoyed. The 112th Congress attempted to revive the rule, but this only resulted in gridlock. A majority of House Republicans have sympathies for the Tea Party Movement, which forbids members from compromising on any of their principles, no matter how destructive they may be to our nation's well-being. Without removing these intransigent conservatives, it seems that the only way to regain a functional government is to abandon the Hastert rule. Recent evidence indicates that Speaker John Boehner and the rest of the House Leadership will probably be forced to agree.
Last November, I wrote about my optimism regarding the "fiscal cliff". Ultimately, I was proven mostly right, although a grand bargain still eludes us, Nonetheless, I think it is telling that the legislation that dealt with taxation was ultimately passed with only a minority of Republican votes and that it was the House Democrats who supplied the necessary votes. The relief bill for Cyclone Sandy followed a similar trajectory. It looks like we could witness a repeat of this phenomenon when the debt ceiling is raised.
Individual House republicans, such as John Flemming (R-LA), are now musing about the end of the Hastert Rule. Personally, I am gladdened that Congress is willing to abandon the Hastert rule and restore democracy to the House of Representatives. Hopefully, this will warrant more optimism about the future our government and our nation.
Posted by Warren Porter at January 19, 2013 1:05 AMThe Hastert rule is perfect for the representatives of a bunch of Americans who see Democrats as wanting to destroy America, to move it toward socialism and then communism and ultimately to a one world government through the United Nations that shares none of our American values. Why compromise with the enemy, with traitors, or terrorists? Anyone denying that a large chunk of the right feels like this just has to look to the comment pages of any news article, on any right wing blog, or even Watchblog itself.
When folks talk about breaking the gridlock it means more than simply getting folks to work together in DC. It means Americans themselves returning to a more rational view of politics where not every whack job theory or attack is given equal time to reality. If we fix that then perhaps we can start to vote out the people who have bubbled up through the crazy at home into Congress where they have to support the crazy to keep their seat.
Posted by: Adam Ducker at January 19, 2013 7:32 AMWe should have more openness is both the House and the Senate. Let our elected officials vote and get on the record.
But I think that both sides like the current arrangement. It protects them from having to make tough choices. For example, I think Democrats should indeed be on the record voting for more debt instead of making it seem like the nature of things.
Re the Filibuster in the Senate - this is also a co-dependency. Harry Reid refuses to bring bills to the floor or allow discussion of amendments. Republicans threaten to filibuster and then none of the politicians need stick their necks out.
The result is very bad. A student of history would recognize it from Roman history. The legislature wracked by divisions, cannot get anything done. This allows the executive to usurp more and more power. Roman dictators and later emperors used to play “the people” against established interests. The result was a catering to the mob, who were given bread and circuses and steady loss of freedom.
Posted by: C&J at January 19, 2013 8:35 AMI notice you only talk about the Republican controlled House, and don’t even give a by the way the Democrat controlled Senate where if His Majesty Harry Reid doesn’t like something he buries it in some committee and refuses to bring it to the floor. Like say the budgets for the last four years. But when they do pass a bill they expect the House Republicans to just knuckle under and pass it or Reid and crew will hold the country hostage until they do. How democratic is that? How compromising is that?
At least the Republicans in the House are showing some signs [but not many] of being willing to compromise. I wish I could say the same about the Democrats in the Senate.
Gridlock and holding the country hostage ain’t how this country became the greatest country on earth. It got there by both sides working together and coming up solutions for the problems facing this country. Some were good. And some were bad. But at least both sides were working together and trying.
Unfortunately the only thing I’ve seen over the last 12 years is stubborn bullheaded partisanship from both sides of the isle. Both parties idea of compromise has been my way or no way. And look at the shape we’re in.
It’s time that both parties and both houses of Congress started working together again in a true attitude of compromise. I’d rather see a bill passed that I disagree 90% with than nothing being done.
When folks talk about breaking the gridlock it means more than simply getting folks to work together in DC. It means Americans themselves returning to a more rational view of politics where not every whack job theory or attack is given equal time to reality. If we fix that then perhaps we can start to vote out the people who have bubbled up through the crazy at home into Congress where they have to support the crazy to keep their seat.
True. However, eliminating the Hastert rule is certainly a good first step in the right direction. If Boehner is willing to continue letting the House vote on bills even when those bills don’t garner the support of a majority of Republicans, then it will be much better for our nation.
But I think that both sides like the current arrangement. It protects them from having to make tough choices. For example, I think Democrats should indeed be on the record voting for more debt instead of making it seem like the nature of things.Re the Filibuster in the Senate - this is also a co-dependency. Harry Reid refuses to bring bills to the floor or allow discussion of amendments. Republicans threaten to filibuster and then none of the politicians need stick their necks out.
I believe you are responding to my comment on the other thread, but I’ll gladly move the conversation to here. From my point of view, I think Reid is simply following the old adage, “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me”. In 2010, he endured a large amount of criticism for the omnibus bill that he tried to pass that December. He doesn’t want to become a laughing stock again, so he won’t do anything unless he has Mitch McConnell’s assurance that it won’t be filibustered. In my opinion, Reid is absolutely justified delaying any budget until he gains such an assurance; only a fool would continue to propose budgets only to have them filibustered.
The result is very bad. A student of history would recognize it from Roman history. The legislature wracked by divisions, cannot get anything done. This allows the executive to usurp more and more power. Roman dictators and later emperors used to play “the people” against established interests. The result was a catering to the mob, who were given bread and circuses and steady loss of freedom.I hope you are wrong, but I fear you are right. Similar scenarios have played out in recent history: France in the 1790s, USA in the 1850s, Russia in the 1910s and Germany in the 1930s. Fortunately, Obama is probably the only reason things haven’t deteriorated further. I think he is very wary of empowering the executive branch, which I think is a reflection of his background as a Constitutional Law lecturer.
I notice you only talk about the Republican controlled House
I talk about the House because I place most of the blame for today’s gridlock at their feet. Tea Party Republicans explicitily said that they were opposed to compromise when they ran in 2010. Republicans (such as Mike Castle & Dick Lugar) that showed willingness to compromise lost primaries to Tea Party backed challengers. There is no parallel with the Democrats. It’s been the Republicans that have repeatedly taken hostages and demanded ideological purity, not the Democrats.
Like say the budgets for the last four years
Senate Republicans filibustered the budget in 2010 and the Senate passed a budget in 2009. By my reckoning, four isn’t the correct number here.
But when they do pass a bill they expect the House Republicans to just knuckle under and pass it or Reid and crew will hold the country hostage until they do. How democratic is that? How compromising is that?No, they expect House Republicans to be willing to sit on the other side of the table and negotiate in good faith. However, House Republicans were uncompromising on so many issues. I hope that the abandonment of the Hastert rule will mean things will be different during the 113th Congress, but only time will tell.
At least the Republicans in the House are showing some signs [but not many] of being willing to compromise. I wish I could say the same about the Democrats in the Senate. Gridlock and holding the country hostage ain’t how this country became the greatest country on earth. It got there by both sides working together and coming up solutions for the problems facing this country. Some were good. And some were bad. But at least both sides were working together and trying. Unfortunately the only thing I’ve seen over the last 12 years is stubborn bullheaded partisanship from both sides of the isle. Both parties idea of compromise has been my way or no way. And look at the shape we’re in. It’s time that both parties and both houses of Congress started working together again in a true attitude of compromise. I’d rather see a bill passed that I disagree 90% with than nothing being done.I’m still unconvinced of your assertion that this is a case where both sides share blame equally. Posted by: Warren Porter at January 19, 2013 11:47 AM
Warren
“Fortunately, Obama is probably the only reason things haven’t deteriorated further.”
I don’t trust Obama as much as you do. Consider that instead of closing down his campaign, as every other president in the history of our Republic has done, he is creating a permanent lobbying/support group for his policies. This is much like the political equivalent of Caesar refusing to disband his army. Obama has not yet crossed a Rubicon, but he is playing a dangerous game.
If you look at the power grab, Obama has pushed political appointees farther down into government bureaucracies. Way down farther than anything Ronald Reagan did when he was making the changes he did.
My whole life I have believed that “it can’t happen in America.” I still believe this. Let me repeat - I still believe that U.S. is unique and that our robust system will not permit tyranny to persist here. But I think Obama’s actions bear watching in the context history. Tyrants don’t push out freedom in the dark. History shows they ride into town to the cheers of the multitudes. They pit one group of citizens against another and justify their actions on the basis of need to push against entrenched interests.
Re Harry Reid - He should be open about it. I think he is a coward.
Generally, however, they should just make the filibustering senator actually stand up and talk like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. That would makes things clear. Our society has gone too far in making courage cheap.
Posted by: C&J at January 19, 2013 2:40 PMConsider that instead of closing down his campaign, as every other president in the history of our Republic has done, he is creating a permanent lobbying/support group for his policiesThis is unprecedented in name only. Lobbying groups have been created on behalf of previous administrations for generations and the same goes for the national committees that serve each of the two parties. I guess what’s really novel here is that Obama is keeping this separate from the DNC and the rest of the party apparatus.
If you look at the power grab, Obama has pushed political appointees farther down into government bureaucracies. Way down farther than anything Ronald Reagan did when he was making the changes he did.Evidence? Have these political appointees caused harm to the nation as a result of their incompetence? (like Michael Brown did). Are these appointees interfering with the jobs of career civil servants? In any case, it cannot be worse than in the era before Chester Arthur’s Presidency.
Re Harry Reid - He should be open about it. I think he is a coward.Cowardice is a perfectly appropriate response to Republican obstructionism. Take away the obstructionism, and Reid won’t have this excuse any longer.
Generally, however, they should just make the filibustering senator actually stand up and talk like Mr. Smith goes to Washington. That would makes things clear. Our society has gone too far in making courage cheap.There are lots of proposals to reform the filibuster, but they will all stall because the are not supported by the GOP. In all likelihood, no one will never change Senate rules and force someone who is maintaining a filibuster to deliver incessant speeches as popularized in the movies. Posted by: Warren Porter at January 19, 2013 3:10 PM
Warren
It is different in fact. Obama raised and spent more money on a campaign than anyone else in the history of politics. He kept his organization in place for the next campaign, which was unprecedented. But then he kept it AFTER his last campaign.
Re political appointees - they have pushed political people down to the deputy assistant secretary level and there are political types proliferating at the even down to the GS 14 level. This is an “inside baseball” argument, but it violates 100 years of practice. You mention it. After the assassination of James Garfield at the hands of a disgruntled office seeker, we reformed the civil service, taking all but he highest positions out of the political spoils system. This was a good idea.
Many political appointees are smart and competent. But they almost always lack the experience needed to run the organizations. It also has the taste of the commissar. Government employees are prohibited by law from participating openly in partisan politics. While my guess is that most civil servants lean liberal, it is very hard to tell among particular people because they don’t talk about it. This is good. The apparatus of government is NOT supposed to work FOR the president. The president is the constitutional head of a limited government. His rights are limited by law and tradition. There are many things that the president has no right to ask of the government he leads. And an employee who opposes the current president should feel as comfortable doing his/her lawful duties as a supporter.
If you push political appointees too far down into the system, you begin to destroy this. The political appointee is not a professional. He/she has a loyalty to the political process and/or an independent power base there.
Politically appointees too numerous or too far down the food chain cause harm just by being there. That is why we took them out in the first place. Government jobs should not be passed out as rewards for political activism. Ask yourself if you feel comfortable with Dick Cheney appointing loyalists down to the office director level.
Re the filibuster - remember in 2004 when Republicans were the ones who wanted to limit the filibuster. I think the idea of making them really get up and talk would solve lots of this. But if Reid wanted to call the bluff, he could.
Posted by: C&J at January 19, 2013 3:46 PMC&J: “But then he kept it AFTER his last campaign.”
But well equipped freedom loving people know Obama is seeking a 3rd term so why not keep it going?
Posted by: Adam Ducker at January 19, 2013 5:11 PMThe Republicans played their only card (obstructionism) after Obama’s first election. They did it with ruthless discipline. They hoped to let Obama twist in the wind of the predictable slow economic recovery. They lost. They know that.
Unfortunately, in their anti-anything Obama campaign, they brought on-board the extremist Tea Party types (“militant wing of the Republican Party”)which has compromised their ability to propose and negotiate moderate right of center legislative proposals. It is not just the budget. It is a wide range of policy issues.
Blaming the Senate or Obama for rejecting their extremist proposals out of hand, is ridiculous. The American public doesn’t want their extremism. That should be clear from the last election.
Until the Republican party frees itself from the death grip of its extremist minority, there is not a lot of hope for legitimate compromise on the budget or any other matter.
Fortunately, some of the leadership in the Republican party appear to recognize this problem. Removing the debt ceiling threat and the more moderate comprehensive immigration reform proposals in their recent planning conference are signals that the party is beginning to moderate its positions. We can only hope.
Rich
Passing a budget and bringing government closer to the levels of the Clinton times is now extreme?
Adam
I recall that lots of left wing dummies thought and wrote on this very blog that Bush would not leave in 2009. Lots of nuts on both ends.
Posted by: C&J at January 19, 2013 8:14 PMWarren
If the Democrats are as innocent as you want to believe then why ain’t they sitting down with the Republicans and working something out?
The Republicans say they want spending cuts. The Democrats refuse to talk.
The Republicans send budgets to the Senate. The Democrats refuse to pass them and refuse to talk.
Maybe what the Republicans are saying they want and their budgets aren’t what the Democrats want. But to just refuse to talk is childish at best.
If both sides would sit down and talk a compromise could be reached. But the way I see it the Democrats don’t want to compromise. They just want to keep borrowing and spending until the country is bankrupt and in worse shape than Greece. Otherwise they’d be talking with the Republicans and working out something.
It is different in fact. Obama raised and spent more money on a campaign than anyone else in the history of politics. He kept his organization in place for the next campaign, which was unprecedented. But then he kept it AFTER his last campaign.
I still see no difference bteween “Obama for America” and the other lobbying organizations that exist. Obama does not abuse his position as President to support OFA. From what I understand, OFA is maintaining things such as email lists that were obtained during the campaign. I really don’t see the threat behind this; I am certain that future Republican administrations will do the same when they regain power.
Re political appointees - they have pushed political people down to the deputy assistant secretary level and there are political types proliferating at the even down to the GS 14 level. This is an “inside baseball” argument, but it violates 100 years of practice. You mention it. After the assassination of James Garfield at the hands of a disgruntled office seeker, we reformed the civil service, taking all but he highest positions out of the political spoils system. This was a good idea.Many political appointees are smart and competent. But they almost always lack the experience needed to run the organizations. It also has the taste of the commissar. Government employees are prohibited by law from participating openly in partisan politics. While my guess is that most civil servants lean liberal, it is very hard to tell among particular people because they don’t talk about it. This is good. The apparatus of government is NOT supposed to work FOR the president. The president is the constitutional head of a limited government. His rights are limited by law and tradition. There are many things that the president has no right to ask of the government he leads. And an employee who opposes the current president should feel as comfortable doing his/her lawful duties as a supporter.
If you push political appointees too far down into the system, you begin to destroy this. The political appointee is not a professional. He/she has a loyalty to the political process and/or an independent power base there.
Politically appointees too numerous or too far down the food chain cause harm just by being there. That is why we took them out in the first place. Government jobs should not be passed out as rewards for political activism. Ask yourself if you feel comfortable with Dick Cheney appointing loyalists down to the office director level.
Firstly, it appears that I have to trust you and your word on this because you haven’t cited any sources that indicate any proliferation of political appointments that corrupt our civil service.
Secondly, I agree that it is a problem to have these political appointments, but it is a different sort of problem from the one we were discussing earlier (regarding Roman dictators etc). Political appointments expose us to incompetence and corruption, which can be serious problems, but they aren’t indicators of coming tyranny.
Re the filibuster - remember in 2004 when Republicans were the ones who wanted to limit the filibuster. I think the idea of making them really get up and talk would solve lots of this. But if Reid wanted to call the bluff, he could.
There are several hurdles that you are ignoring here: Firstly, it is very difficult to change the Senate Rules (as we saw in 2004 when Frist experimented with the nuclear option). Secondly, making McConnell read out the phone book is a ridiculous solution to the problem. Most Americans don’t watch CSPAN on a daily so they won’t care if McConnell actually has to continuously be talking or not. Also, I think that Senate Republicans ought to be mature enough to respect that the Democrats have a mandate to set policy. Democrats deferred to the GOP’s electoral mandate when they approved Bush’s invasion of Iraq despite much evidence that it would be a foolish endeavor.
If the Democrats are as innocent as you want to believe then why ain’t they sitting down with the Republicans and working something outDemocrats are sitting at the metaphorical table, but there isn’t a Republican in sight. In order for this to work, the GOP needs to make a clean break with the Tea Party movement.
The Republicans say they want spending cuts. The Democrats refuse to talk.Really? I guess all the talk of chained CPI and sequestration and pay freezes for civil servants must be a part of my imagination then.
The Republicans send budgets to the Senate. The Democrats refuse to pass them and refuse to talk.Those House Budgets were based around Paul Ryan’s plans to cut Medicare benefits for folks born after 1957. Paul Ryan attempted to sell that plan to the American public in the previous election and he got rebuked royally. Ryan’s budget is now defunct and we need a different plan. Now, Obama seems to be offering a lot of proposals to improve our debt-to-gdp ratio over the next 10 years and I hope that they pass.
At this point, I don’t think I am making any progress here. This discussion is simply devolving into Monty Python sketch. Maybe next year we can revisit this once we know what the actual policy outcomes are. I remain confident that I will be vindicated though, and the erosion of the Hastert rule is definitely a telling sign. With the Hastert rule out the window, Democrats and a handful of Republicans can let Obama’s platform proceed. This is a platform that has won two elections and remains popular with the American electorate. Maybe America ends up being ill-served by such a platform, but at the very least it will be the platform that has popular appeal (unlike Paul Ryan’s ideas).
Posted by: Warren Porter at January 20, 2013 7:17 AMC&J: “Lots of nuts on both ends.”
And yet the longest running, largest networks of lunacy on the web are right wing dens like WND, Drudge, Limbaugh, and Alex Jones. This started under Clinton and any left wing lunacy under President Bush paled in comparison to what has happened since. In fact a lot of the lunancy on the left about 9/11 and such actually came from nuts on the right who didn’t trust President Bush and the left was going to run with anything critical of the president.
I’d argue that at it’s core right wing thought is untrusting of authority and power. This has served the movement well over the years when it comes to rational individuals but it inevitably spins off nut jobs like Alex Jones and Joseph Farah who see a conspiracy EVERYWHERE and now with social media they can gather an army of idiotic followers online.
Posted by: Adam Ducker at January 20, 2013 9:13 AMWarren
Obama is different because his loyalists - the same guys on the campaign - are running the show. Obama said that he couldn’t change Washington from the inside, i.e. using our institutions, so he created an outside pressure group still under the command of his campaign.
The big innovation of Obama was not the unprecedented money he spent, but rather how he expertly targeted particular groups and executed their issues and grievances. He won this election dirty. It was not like Reagan who had nearly 58% behind him the second time.
“I am certain that future Republican administrations will do the same when they regain power.” - and this will a threat to our freedom too - a manipulation arms race. And if this happens, I expect liberals to be up in arms.
Re proliferating political appointees - it is a form of corruption, IMO, to appoint people to responsible positions based on political connections. This is not tyranny, BTW, it is usurpation.
Re the filibuster - Do you think these old farts could actually sustain a physical filibuster? And if they tried, it would become big news.
Adam
There is nothing said about Obama that was not worse about Bush. The difference since Clinton is that conservatives have joined what liberals have done.
I grew to political maturity under Ronald Reagan. The liberal media rarely called his President Reagan and reported all sorts of stupid things about him. He was accused of wanting to provoke a nuclear war. Can there be anything stupider or more scurrilous. Bush was accused of starting a war in Iraq to enrich his friends. how stupid is that?
Re not trusting authority - more precisely we do not trust any concentrated power. That kept America relatively free. We avoided the utopias of the Nazi/fascist/communists that afflicted much of the world at one time or another over the past couple centuries.
Our constitution and traditions are based on the dislike of concentrated power. It is one of the things that make us great and if the price of this is a few nutty critics I am more than willing to pay it.
After all we really don’t want one united people, in one united country with one leader, do we? BTW, it sound so much better in German.
Posted by: C&J at January 20, 2013 9:59 AMC&J:
America is founded on a healthy blend of conservative and liberal principles as well as both religious and secular values, but don’t tell the TEA Party or the Christian Right. The right’s fear of centralized power and the left’s work toward social justice has served us well. At some point the right decided to fight for a vision of America that never existed and to do so without compromise.
Posted by: Adam Ducker at January 20, 2013 12:08 PMAdam
Not trying to be argumentative, but I feel the same about the left.
I think the country and the world will have to go in a more libertarian direction. Big government and big business are the basis of the modern liberal vision. I understand that you all feel that you are fighting big business, but liberals of today depends on big business as much as big government to carry out its social experiments. Small enterprises just cannot support HR departments to do affirmative action or figure out the intricacies of ObamaCare. They don’t have the legal departments to figure out EPA mandates nor the energy to comply with the details of Dodd-Franks. In short, only the big businesses can give liberals what they want.
The big government/big business alliance (which used to include big labor) is based on the industrial model where large numbers of people do similar things in a relatively predictable environment.
This is ending and the new, more fluid structures don’t support liberalism’s mandates.
Take the example of Obamacare. Obama has imposed this on the American people. But most smaller firms cannot comply. They will opt out or simply ignore many of the law’s components. They will be in constant trouble and it will provoke bankruptcies, but it will not be possible for the authorities to impose it universally.
Meanwhile, many firms will remain small and officially unorganized, as they already do to avoid the tyranny of affirmative action. They can do this more easily because technology allows them to outsource and organize in networks. Where we once had a big “general” (i.e. motors, electric, dynamics) we now have hundreds of self organized networks. The government cannot find a center to regulate or a boss to direct programs.
So Obama can attempt to impose a liberal order on this chaos. I think he is indeed trying to work out ways to redistribute power and resources to “the poor” but producers have figured out ways to hide from the big hand of the state.
Posted by: C&J at January 21, 2013 7:38 AMThe Problem for Republicans is that the system is working like it’s supposed to.
In a government where one chamber of a Congress and the Presidency, both necessary to the passage of a law, are in the other Party’s hands, it is sheer political fantasy to believe that apart from political blackmail that the party that only controls a single chamber would be setting the agenda.
Yet that’s a fantasy the GOP’s indulged. Anybody who thinks that the GOP can send the Ryan Budget, can send legislation essentially gutting every liberal program, privatizing Social Security and Medicare, destroying the EPA, Repealing Dodd Frank (or making it more toothless), and scuttling Obamacare to Senate and expect that to get put up for a vote is deluding themselves.
It’s just a show, and these days, its all the GOP has. It can whine that it’s not getting its way, but that’s our Republic for you.
Simple common sense tells you that if you cleared away a bunch of the bull****, there would be much that Democrats and Republicans could agree on, needs that are generally recognized.
But Republicans want to live in this silly fantasy world where their war against liberalism takes first priority, where everything is defined by an absolute refusal to cooperate.
The decline in the use of the Hastert Rule tells us something about the biggest problem with this. Simply put, majorities rule for the most part, in our Republic. And so far, Boehner’s found it harder and harder to get screaming high priority things done, much less simple housekeeping, with the majority he’s got. That’s why he has to shift the vote over to the Democrats. The first couple votes had majority Republican support, minus the Tea Partiers. But now Democrats have increased leverage, the numbers are stacking up against them. They’re afraid both to let things go to hell, and to let themselves be seen voting for something that could get them primaried by the Tea Party.
There is a price to pay for a majority built on rejectionism and discord, where people came to believe it was a holy crusade to get in Obama’s way. Now the Republicans are having trouble even keeping their people in line for votes, that if they fail, could destroy, or at least hobble the party further.
The first failure of the rule, in fact, was to prevent a Tax Increase, one that would ironically come about because Republicans refused to compromise in the first place, and take the tax cuts everybody could agree on.
Now it’s disaster recovery aid.
I mean, really, did the Republicans just come together and ask, “What’s the most dickish move we could be seen making?”
Republicans have fought with redistricting, vote caging, and all kinds of other tricks to keep dominant in a government designed to go where the majority of people are going, and really, to keep this crap up, they’re having to push the limits of their caucus’s ability to remain sympathetic. People only have to report the basic facts to make them look bad.
The better, if more uncertain way to go about this would have been to discern were the public was, and adjust accordingly. But Republicans have instead decided to balance themselves on a base whose narrow interests are increasingly becoming alienating from the rest of the Country’s.
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