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Originally Posted by silverkris
Exactly. The only reason they may seem "moderate" is because the GOP caucus can't agree amongst themselves...the Tea Partiers and the Freedom Caucus tend to be uncompromising, my way or the highway types. Hence a relatively light legislative record.
Also, some of those years were under Democratic presidents who would veto legislation that was too far or extreme, though a lot of times it just wouldn't pass in the Senate, to get that far.
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Just as the Framers intended. I think people sometimes tend to forget that the constitutional checks and balances are a restraint on both the left and right sides of the aisle.
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