I know, you are saying the answer is nothing. But that isn't quite true. The answer is making them scared for their jobs. If they fear that repealing the ACA and not standing up to Trump will lead to them losing their next election, many...
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Over at the Prospect I wade into the debate about the use of caucuses in the presidential selection process. I think the current system works tolerably well, although I don't.
Ohio union-busting law goes down. 63% no. Maine vote-suppression law goes down. Oh noes, gays and lesbians might be able to vote! Looks like the Mississippi Life Begins At Conception.
It will be interesting to see the Pain Caucus try to rationalize away this one. Personal to Dems: voting to get rid of Medicare to fund upper-class tax cuts is enormously unpopular, and almost every House Republican voted for that. And it's particularly significant that...
If NY-26 has taught us anything, it's that it would take Mark Penn-level incompetence to screw up the political gift that even remotely marginal Republican legislators gave their prospective Democratic.
My understanding is that the election following the non-confidence vote that felled the Harper government is likely to produce yet another Harper minority government, so whether it will change anything.