Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) bucked Senate Republican leaders April 5, praising President Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee. The control of the party (if there is such a thing) will depend on each side’s tactics and the leaders it deploys. (Maybe Heritage Action not unreasonably figures that the GOP isn’t going to win the White House for a good long time.) (If the GOP is in the minority, we’ll see whether he will try filibustering, thereby risking a “nuclear option” — elimination of the filibuster for justices.) The GOP will need to decide whether it wants to be entirely obstructionist, obstructionist but better behaved, or sane.

Source: Washington Post November 04, 2016 12:56 UTC