http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/politics-is-a-team-sport-but-not-for-house-republicans/2013/06/30/9620aa76-e18a-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html?hpid=z2
Politics is a team sport. Except the way House Republicans have played it for the past few years.At the root of the problems that afflict the majority party in the House is that there are simply too few members willing to occasionally set aside personal interests and ambitions for the broader interests of the party. They just won’t take one for the team.“The Founders’ vision of seeing consensus and compromise in a party conference, let alone on the floor of Congress, appears to be a thing of the past,” said Tom Reynolds, a former New York House member who spent two elections as chairman of the party’s campaign arm.“It is every man for himself,” added another former Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about internal party differences. “House Republicans need to recognize their destinies are intertwined.”
ah the beloved founder guys they channel constantly, except must be some other ghost having fun cause what they say sure is not what was meant, let's face it there is no way they could envision some of the stuff that has come up so they use their name and create what they would have done and what they meant, much like they tell us what we think and want.
Examples of this go-it-alone approach are everywhere. The surprise failure of the farm bill last month came as the result of the rebellion of five dozen Republicans who thought the legislation cut too little.The collapse of House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) alternative proposal during the “fiscal cliff” negotiations late last year was caused by conservative Republicans’ unwillingness to get behind it. (Worth noting: While Boehner eventually voted for the compromise deal that averted the fiscal cliff, neither House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) nor House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) did so.)Then, of course, there was the quasi-rebellion against Boehner at the start of the 113th Congress in which he came within a single vote of being pushed to a second ballot in his quest for a new term as speaker.
too many cook spoil the broth and in this case boil overs as well, this is why they can't get it together too many different extensions of hate, coupled with some having a conscious and others pushing the envelope too far you would think their arms would be hyperextended by now.
