The Patriot Post® · Futility of Republican Infighting

Veteran conservative political analyst Jonah Goldberg, in his summary of this latest shutdown debacle, notes that the latest Republican infighting has been less about competing ideology and more about frustration forcing tactical errors: “In the recent [arguments] over the government shutdown, [Tea Party conservatives] insisted they were in an ideological struggle with the establishment. But there was precious little ideology involved. Instead, it was a fight over tactics and power. The Republican Party almost unanimously opposed Obamacare, and the Republicans who’ve been in office far longer than Cruz & Co. have voted more than three dozen times to get rid of the disastrous program. And yet, the latecomers to the battle talk as if the veterans in the trenches were collaborators the whole time.”