
On Monday nights, the PBS NewsHour usually airs the pundit panel of NPR White House reporter Tamara Keith and political forecaster Amy Walter. It doesn’t usually have the fireworks of the Capehart & Brooks panel on Fridays, but both women ripped conservative House Republicans on the latest edition.
Liberals always display nostalgia for the “good old days” of Eisenhower-Nixon-Ford Republicanism, what’s been called me-too Republicanism, I’ll be for a slightly less expensive version of your “Great Society” statism.
PBS anchor Amna Nawaz quoted from Walter’s latest report:
You said: “If you step back from the day-to-day chaos, it’s easier to see this as part of a longer trajectory, one in which the so-called establishment has been gradually and effectively undermined for the last 30 years.”
Walter lamented the rise of Gingrich in 1994…which was the first House Republican major …