How does today’s Republican Party fit Wall Street bankers under the same tent as blue-collar America? How does a party unify those who seek to bathe corporations in taxpayer cash with those who want to curtail government spending? If recent events in Congress are any indication, increasingly it doesn’t. On various issues, rank-and-file Republican lawmakers are bucking their party, with… return to article
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