Everything immoderation

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Rick Perry's right-hand (and -wing) man, decisively lost last night's US Senate primary to Tea Partier Ted Cruz, who kept pinning the very conservative Dewhurst with the dreaded "M" word - Moderate. Cruz will almost certainly win in November and thus accomplish the near-impossible: make Congressional Republicans even more uncompromisingly intransigent.

Two of that endangered species known as Republicans Who Will Work Across the Aisle (one of whom announced his retirement yesterday) have dared to speak up.

Freshman Rep. Richard Hanna took his party to task yesterday, saying the Republican Party is too willing to accommodate its most extreme members.  “I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in this moment in history.” 

He said he feels more bitterness coming from the Republican caucus than from the Democrats. “I would say that the friends I have in the Democratic Party I find … much more congenial — a little less anger,” he said.

Departing Republican Steven LaTourette said he was “horribly disappointed” in the debate over the transportation funding bill, calling it an “embarrassment” to the institution that a bipartisan bill approved by the Senate was not handily approved in the House.
“We’re talking about about building roads and bridges for Chrissakes,” he said, adding that he had come to believe his Congressional colleagues have become “more interested in fighting with each other than getting the no-brainers done and governing.”
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/revenge-of-the-rinos-moderate-republicans-in-congress-starting-to-rebel/