GOP Fight for Power taking place in the House

http://samuel-warde.com/2015/11/the-gloves-come-off-as-power-hungry-extremists-wrestle-for-control-of-the-gop/

The Unprecedented Insurgency of the House Freedom Caucus

There hasn’t been a political faction fighting against both parties since at least the Civil War – that is, until the recent emergence of the House Freedom Caucus.

As Alan Greenblatt writes for Politico Magazine: “Congress has never seen anything quite like the House Freedom Caucus. There’s always someone unhappy on Capitol Hill and it’s not unusual for malcontents to band together. A rebellion made up of members who refuse to work with either party, however, is something that hasn’t happened in living memory.”

“This is an unusual and indeed unprecedented development in the history of the party,” says Geoffrey Kabaservice, a research consultant to the Main Street Partnership, a centrist GOP group.

Laura Blessing, a senior fellow at the Georgetown Government Affairs Institute, toldPolitico: “I can think of a number of major examples throughout history where a party has had divisions of consequence,” adding: “It’s rare that those divisions would represent a position on the fringe of the political system, where they’re not working with either party.”