The source of many of the problems we see in getting legislation through a nominally Republican Congress is that there are really at least two Republican parties. Or, to put it another way, the Republican Party is far from united.
This is obvious when you try to put two senators such as Rand Paul and John McCain in the same political party. It just doesn’t work. Except for routine procedural matters and non-controversial legislation, there are going to be conflicts that are going to prevent reforms and stifle the agenda on which President Trump campaigned and won.
The Democrats don’t seem to have this problem. They know how to whip members into line. Observe the massive corruption of the Obama administration and of Hillary Clinton. Yet the Democrats, especially party leadership, stick by them and run interference for them no matter what. It becomes difficult to imagine any crime, other than perhaps personal acts of violence, that Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton could commit that would cause them to lose any support from their party.
We see the failure of the Republican Party to act as a cohesive force in the current debate over the President’s budget proposal.
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do you even realize what you said ?
if you need to se just what happens when an outsider comes in and does not play the game here is a perfect example !!!! trump may not say things like your used to hearing from the career politicians but look at the situation america is in now and ask yourself just how does supporting career politican is good for americas future
Time to fight the good fight for 2018!
They had a chance to get rid of McConnell in his last primary.GOP blew it. Same with McCain. We need people who stick to their campaign promises!
Drain the swamp.
These crooks only work 121 days a year, which is why they get nothing done. Also, McConnell is only pretending to be a Republican. He needs to be removed from his position!
This guy has been in DC along with a lot of others for WAY too long. Term limits on the political elite is the only way to reign in the corruption and pocket lining that goes on in DC.
McDonnell needs to go.
Let’s help drain the swamp in the next elections!
Excuse me, this is not failure in the Republican Party. They may be Republicans, but they think and have ideas for themselves. They will work it out and compromise and get it done, but they do not blindly follow a Republican President just because he is Republican. This is the Real United States of America.