Steve King, the Tea Partier from Iowa at the center of the Rove/Tea Party war, enlists. “Nobody can bully me” out of a Senate run.
TPM Reader RS with some good insight:
I’ve noticed a trend in GOP positioning statements recently (and who knows, maybe it’s happening among Dems as well and I’m just too partisan to notice). Rather than saying “we dont want to do X,” the GOP’s position is stated as if it were an immutable law of nature.
It came to mind when reading Labrador’s statement on immigration reform: “If they want a political victory they’re going to draw a fine red line and they’re going to say, either a pathway to citizenship or nothing else. They know that the Republicans in the House are not going to be able to vote for that…”
Not able to?
