Even as a party stalwart like Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the party's whip in the House, maintains that most Americans still support the bedrock policies of Republicanism — smaller government, lower taxes, less regulation — the party confronts new conditions that the old ideology doesn't address.
While these bedrock policies help maintain the integrity of the system and ensure our elections are not "rigged," these laws are now running head on into modern forms of self-expression.
However even this apparent bedrock of policy has now been shaken, this time by the Pres.
Their strength will lead the government to change bedrock labor policy from insuring security for industrial workers to supporting individuals as sole proprietors.
A schism is brewing within the administration over what to do about a somewhat-obscure EPA ruling that, for the last eight years, has been the bedrock of policy to fight global warming: the scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases cause climate change, which is bad for humans and should be regulated.
But its bond with Washington, the strongest advocate for the International Monetary Fund loans that keep Turkey afloat, has long been the bedrock of foreign policy.
"No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practices, everyone can agree that Internet users deserve to be well-informed about what they're getting when they sign up for broadband, and good data is the bedrock of sound policy," Cerf wrote.
I've long thought it odd that so many Republicans have embraced Ayn Rand's novels as the bedrock of their policy and worldview.
The percentage of Americans covered by private health insurance continued its decade-long decline, and the percentage covered by employment-based policies, the bedrock of the insurance system for working people, dropped to 55 percent.
