{"id":8830,"date":"2006-10-21T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8830.html"},"modified":"2006-10-21T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T19:35:52","slug":"the-gops-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-gops-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another civil war in the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings<\/a><\/p>\n

In case you missed it, over at The Decembrist earlier this month, Marc Schmitt wrote an excellent post<\/a> on the current civil war (or, more euphemistically, “leadership crisis”) in the Republican Party, specifically in its congressional wing, and “what it means for the next era of American politics”:<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve assumed that the narrow Democratic House majority would face off against an extraordinarily disciplined and fierce opposition party, working with the Republicans in the Senate whether minority or not, that would continue to frame the agenda and define the fights much as they did in the early Clinton years. In many ways the modern Republicans are a machine constructed for opposition, and far less effective as a governing party that has to make choices based on consequences. I want the Democrats to win, but I\u2019m terrified of it at the same time. I\u2019m worried that to win they will promise things they intend to “do,” but they will not have the power to do anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But — and here things could get really interesting, not to mention seriously entertaining — “[W]hat happens if the Republican structure is not capable of discipline, if it\u2019s riven by infighting and finger-pointing??”<\/p>\n

What if, indeed. Are we about to witness the crack-up of the Republican Party? At the very least, are we about to witness yet more Byzantinism from the party that specializes in political bloodletting?<\/p>\n

Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings In case you missed it, over at The Decembrist earlier this month, Marc Schmitt wrote an excellent post on the current civil war (or, more euphemistically, “leadership crisis”) in the Republican Party, specifically in its congressional wing, and “what it means for the next era of American politics”: I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}