Tensions Rise As GOP Barley Clings To House Majority.
“Who’s to blame for the GOP’s dwindling House majority? It depends on whom you ask.
The internal blame game has highlighted both the deep divisions dogging the House GOP — where conservative agitators are bashing moderates as apostates, and moderates are bashing the hardliners as obstructionists — and the miniscule majority that’s made it all but impossible for Republican leaders to unite the warring camps for the sake of passing the party’s policy priorities.
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The curious case of the GOP defections has Washington DC all befuddled as a super slim majority becomes that much slimmer. The blame game ensues but the loudest members hail from districts that are so gerrymandered they can say and do whatever they want with little to no broader repercussion back home. Their constituents want the disruptive circus to seemingly show that the ‘status quo’ is no longer something they support or will vote to keep in office. So here we are.
