Of the 234 #Republican members of the House, 97 — two fifths — come from the 11 #Confederate states, and these 97 are almost uniformly opposed to negotiation of any kind with Democrats. These members of the House are what Feehery describes as “#nostalgia” Republicans who define conservatism as “the ability to fight#progress.” They produce a flood of statements and declarations that Bobby #Jindal, the governor of #Louisiana, calls “offensive and bizarre” and which he claims are turning his party into “#thestupidparty.” Since Rush #Limbaugh’s 1992 bestseller “The Way Things Ought to Be,” his conservative talk show politics have dominated #GOP presidential discourse – and the Republicans’ White House fortunes have plummeted. But when the mainstream media reigned supreme, between 1952 and 1988, Republicans won seven out of the 10 presidential elections. Bill McInturff, a founder of the Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies, argued in a phone interview that at least for members of the House, the Republican strategy of relentless opposition to Democratic initiatives has paid off: Look at the quotes from 1993 and 1994 when Republicans were blocking Clinton’s health care bill, and again in 2009 with #Obamacare. The exact same stuff, the same handwringing, the same, except one led to a 50-plus gain and the other a 60-plus seat gain in the House. opinionator.blogs.nytimes/2013/07/17/has-the-g-o-p-gone-off-the-deep-end/?src=me&ref=general
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