essentially to do some of these kind of things. like this bill they re pushing some of the social writers on spending bills, other things like that. they get blamed for a lot of this. frankly, they are by in large, you know, your çstandard, you know, issue republicans. john stanton, reporter for roll call. thanks again for your time tonight, john. always nice to have you here. any time. i will say that looking into this empirical question of whether or not the 2010 election, the republicans were elected in the 2010 election, have changed the republican party at all, there s two bits of data out there recently. politico looked at their votes on substantive issues in the house and found that republicans in general were willing to dissent from the party line. dissent from the party leadership 12.34% of the time. house freshmen, the class of 2010, was willing to dissent from the party leadership 12.5% of the time. no difference whatsoever. john s newspaper, though, roll call, t
that have been around for a while, they use them as cover essentially to do some of these kind of things. like this bill they re pushing some of the social writers on spending bills, other things like that. they get blamed for a lot of this. frankly, they are by in large, you know, your standard, you know, issue republicans. john stanton, reporter for roll call. thanks again for your time tonight, john. always nice to have you here. any time. i will say that looking into this empirical question of whether or not the 2010 election, the republicans were elected in the 2010 election, have changed the republican party at all, there s two bits of data out there recently. politico looked at their votes on substantive issues in the house and found that republicans in general were willing to dissent from the party line. dissent from the party leadership 12.34% of the time. house freshmen, the class of ç 2010, was willing to dissent from the party leadership 12.5% of the time. no diff