How does it make us look like kooks?
By negotiating away a stop to IRS targeting of political opponents, didn’t the republican leadership effectively endorse it?
Perhaps the shared enemy aspect motivated them?
If you think I’m a kook for thinking this, I’m ok with that, I don’t mind being corrected if I am wrong.
There is definitely a lot of slow walking going on in DC on both sides of the aisle on any number of issues.