Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2017
G.O.P. desire to keep party feuds private breaks down over health care
12 March 2017 - Top Republicans never like to see their internal party quarrels messily spilled out in public for all to see.
That fact was driven home a few years ago when I heard that Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the party leader, was privately discouraging his fellow Republican senators from sharing their gripes with me on Capitol Hill, an instance he recounted in his recent memoir, “The Long Game.”
“I told my Republican colleagues during the Bush years that if you have a problem you need to talk to Karl Rove, President Bush’s right-hand man, not Carl Hulse, The New York Times’s senior congressional reporter,” he wrote.
