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What Republicans' Obstruction Costs Them
Blocking Democratic presidents yields temporary gains and long-term losses.
What did they stop today?
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For more than 20 years, Republican politicians have followed one overarching strategy: pursuing maximum opposition to the president when they don't control the White House.
While liberals may hate this obstruction, they agree with conservatives that it is successful and makes sense from a Republican point of view. Jonathan Chait describes it this way:1466613630262