Over the last few years, the House of Representatives has not been a healthy place for Jeffersonian Democrats and other living creatures. The Menace of the House, Jim Wright, has used his position as Speaker to bludgeon the parliamentary rights of members of the minority party. His tenure and the tenure of his appropriately titled Majority Whip, Democratic Pit Bull Terrier Tony Coelho, have brought partisanship in the House to an apogee, and have ritualized the sort of political legerdemain befitting a Third World hamlet.
All of which offers George Bush a delicious opportunity to become the House-wrecker Ronald Reagan never was.
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