With yet another effort to oust the House GOP Speaker only to be saved by Democrats raises a question about the future of the Republican Party. Former Salisbury University political science professor Michael O'Loughlin writes that currently it is the Democrats who have a functioning party even as a minority in the House.
Essay: Disfunction in Congress & the GOP
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