By now, it’s become conventional wisdom about Congress: “Moderates always cave.” The more extreme elements sometimes force leadership’s hand, but those near the political center have a tendency to lose their nerve.
Things have apparently gotten so bad for House Speaker Mike Johnson – and the GOP’s political position against continuing key Obamacare subsidies is apparently so perilous – that even that moderates are mutinying.
Wednesday brought one of the most astounding affronts to date to the Louisiana Republican’s increasingly embattled speakership, as moderates joined with Democrats to force a vote to extend soon-to-expire enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
Frustrated over the lack of a deal to vote on an extension and negotiations over features that would make the overall legislat
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