Another intriguing look from inside the bubble. Writing for Bloomberg, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru relates a conversation with an anonymous Senate Republican, whose views, ventures Ponnuru, "are widely shared within" the party. And what sober, and sobering, views they are.
For starters the senator "doesnβt think that his party is ready to govern the country," which, though self-evident to most non-Republicans, is rather startling to read from a top GOP partisan who knows his sentiment will see national publication.
He, the senator, also observed that "House Republicans from his state have told him how much happier some of their colleagues would be if they were in the minority and could just lob spitballs at the Democrats." That's less startling in that it reflects the bombthrowers' fundamental Limbaughism: no interest at all in sound policy or actual governance, but an almost religious transcendence in nastiness and an unstoppable urge to torment.
Notwithstanding my daughter's teasing I wasn't around when the Whigs broke apart. That was a rolling, historic event I would have loved to watch and experience first-hand, but it's beginning to look as though it wasn't an exclusive, one-shot opportunity.