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Please read my latest blog post The GOP: Getting Louder vs. Getting Smarter

It is axiomatic that elections count and that our two-party system produces majority and minority parties in any given legislative body. Such bodies operate under constitutionally rigorous rules, regulations and parliamentary procedures that provide leadership status and legislative privileges to the majority party while simultaneously protecting the rights of the minority party.

To ensure bipartisan behavior, such rules should remain consistent, irrespective of the political churning of majori… Continue

Texas Senate Republicans rewrote the rules last week making an exception in the two-thirds rule to allow voter ID legislation on the floor with a simple majority. Historically, the two-thirds rule protects the minority faction in the Senate and has long ensured that it takes more than the simple majority to move legislation through the upper body.

I fear the consequences of this Republican action in the Texas Senate. It will come back to haunt the Party. And, if passed into law, I am sure that… Continue

So what do we do? First, we eliminate checklists and litmus tests and focus on broad principles, not heavy-handed prescriptions. Free trade. Strong defense – at home and abroad. Government as small as is practicable in these times. Economic, education and energy policies that promote growth, energy independence and a competitive agenda that will allow businesses to grow and compete, not be protected by artificial barriers.

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"A moderate Republican will generally prefer to work with a fiscally conservative pro-abortion Democra… Continue