Former Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) does a very fair job of accurately defining why the GOP seems to be struggling so badly to find a unified message and messenger in debt discussions with the President.
A substantial part of the Democratic caucus consists of professional politicians who have climbed the ladder in a manner that makes them responsive to their party's demands - they often won their first primaries by maneuvering to gain institutional support, and their ambitions invariably turn on the good graces of their party leadership. In turn, they are partisans first, ideologues second...
In sharp contrast, a major part of the Republican caucus, particularly its massive freshman class, consists of relative newcomers who did not form ties by climbing the traditional ranks, and in many cases, won their primaries by overcoming their party establishment and their local versions of John Boehner... Their external pressure arises from a base that loathes Barack Obama and grades them based on the intensity of their opposition to his agenda.
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