Senate Republicans could allow President Trump to use recess appointments to fill vacancies and free up scarce floor time. The procedure is available. Republicans control both chambers. The question is why they prefer not to use it.
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Mike Lee isn’t asking John Thune to do something extraordinary. He’s asking Senate Republicans to use the chamber’s rules as senators used them for most of its history: bring up the bill, keep it on the floor, make opponents sustain their obstruction, and vote when debate ends.
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Trump’s success—like Cleveland’s—is a sobering wake-up call for America’s political and pundit class to rethink many of their own biases.
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Reviving earmarks will only make today’s dysfunction worse
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Dudes and Pharisees. Mugwumps. Those were just some of the names that party regulars called the disaffected Republicans who refused to support James G. Blaine for President in 1884.
That contest, which pitted Blaine against Democrat Grover Cleveland, was one of the nastiest in American history. And it has much to teach us about Senator Jeff Flake’s indictment of American politics today.
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