GOP leaders are weighing a series of votes to make last year’s temporary tax cuts for individuals permanent, according to Republicans in both chambers. The strategy would portray the party as the guardian of Americans’ paychecks, Republicans say, and buoy the GOP during a brutal election year.
Republicans argue they win regardless of whether it culminates with a Rose Garden ceremony: Either Democrats support the legislation, giving the GOP a major legislative accomplishment in its scramble to save its majorities. Or, more likely, Democrats block the bill — allowing Republicans to paint them as opponents of the middle class.
“Can you imagine Democrats voting that down? I mean, how do you explain that one?” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas). “I just think they’d be in an impossible position. They’d have to support it.”Dick Morris explains triangulation:
1998 Impeachment and Iraq
Legacy -- Parties as PR operations
Lee, p. 135
Polarization in Congress
Different Americas
Note the last line in this table:
"CQ Vote Studies: Party Unity." CQ Magazine (February 12, 2018).http://library.cqpress.com.ccl.idm.oclc.org/cqweekly/weeklyreport115-000005263236 .
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