Anyone who has voted Republican in more than one election quickly becomes familiar with feeling exasperated. GOP politicians have a history of not handling success well. I can’t be precise about how long this has been the case, but this past spring marked my 40th anniversary as a Republican/conservative activist and it’s been that way in all that time.
Every once in a while a Republican politician will act like he or she won an election — Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, and President-elect Donald Trump come immediately to mind — but it doesn’t happen often enough.
It is both mind-blowing and disheartening to see how the GOP behaves when it has a majority in Congress. Rather than take advantage of what they know is a temporary situation, congressional Republicans often act apologetic for having been popular with the voters. They behave as if they are unworthy of being in charge of things.
Instead of legislating, they showboat. Republicans are very good at grandstanding, holding hearings, and giving press conferences to make it seem as if they’re responding to their constituents but never really doing anything. Beltway Republicans gravitate towards comfort and seem to have an almost sexual fetish for the status quo.
Yeah, that’s got to stop. […]
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