[Opinion] Oh, Congress! How have you become so pusillanimous?

COMMENTARY: Oh, Congress! How have you become so pusillanimous?

The Republicans may be the more guilty invertebrates, but the equivalence of the Democrats is also noteworthy

Oh, Congress! How have you become so pusillanimous?

GUEST COMMENTARY: Sadly, that grand time of free-for-all legislating ended when Newt Gingrich took up the House speaker’s gavel in 1994 and introduced a concept of party discipline more appropriate to Westminster than to Capitol Hill. Shame.

Llewellyn King: Why has Congress become so timid? (Opinion)

October 1989, I found myself in a small hotel, the Londonderry Arms, on the Antrim Coast of Northern Ireland. During “The Troubles,” evidence of the sectarian strife was everywhere, even along that beautiful shoreline, complete as it is with the…