Insiders Gave Republicans the Senate Majority

New York Times: “They have spent at least 70 collective years in government: five sitting members of Congress, two civil servants from the George W. Bush administration, a pair of state legislators and a former governor. They are a counterintuitive fit with the antigovernment, anti-establishment fervor that has energized the Republican Party of late. And their victories seem hard to reconcile with the strong hostility toward government institutions that dominated the recent midterm elections.”

“When Republicans take over the Senate in January, the 11 men and women of the party’s freshman class will be, with a lone exception, people whose careers blossomed inside the government bureaucracy that some politicians love to loathe.”