Inside the GOP Leadership's Roller-Coaster Debut (Yuck)

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I guess that the media are now surrendering to the GOP which themselves surrendered to the Tea Party. We' re united. The leadership won. Who cares that it is by capitulating to the most extreme!!

Digby had that already yesterday, noting that Luke Russert was pushing the meme of unity, but who is surprised by him doing that.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/bye-bye-cantor-hello-steve-king.html

Of course they are. After all a large majority of the Republican base thinks Steve King is right about those Latinos. As Laura Ingraham tells them every single day: these children are coming here to destroy our way of life.


Update: Luke Russert just declared that John Boehner has brought his far right into line. Yeah, that's how lil' Luke sees this.

However, today more reporters (from the National Journal, no less) are pushing the meme as well.

Hopefully, this will help the Democrats in November, but I doubt it.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/inside-the-gop-leadership-s-roller-coaster-debut-20140802

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

That was the external narrative of what happened Thursday inside the House Republican Conference. With an emergency border funding package standing between them and a five-week summer vacation, the newly promoted members of the GOP leadership team – Kevin McCarthy as majority leader and Steve Scalise as majority whip – watched their efforts collapse at the last minute, sparking a breathless news cycle of accounts detailing the latest round of internecine warfare in the unruly House GOP.

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By Friday night, however, the plotline had seemingly flipped. As House Republicans celebrated passage of their twin immigration-related bills – one providing funding for security and humanitarian programs on the southern border; the other curbing President Obama's authority on deportations – members couldn't help themselves. They pointed to the overwhelming unity of their conference in passing both measures without needing Democratic support, and mocked the media's portrayal of McCarthy and Scalise's supposedly disastrous debut.
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