The 2010 elections won't rest on the creation of a coherent Republican legislative agenda.
Allowing unqualified people to prescribe it to themselves or others "would involve obvious risks for the integrity and the prospects of any coherent enforcement of the legislative scheme".
Absent any legislative agenda or coherent ideological approach, they have spent the last two years crafting "a really futile and stupid gesture … on somebody's part" that Otter would be proud of.
Ryan, the country's highest-ranking elected Republican, has described the agenda as a way to offer voters a coherent policy message across key legislative areas for 2017.
The budgetary process is the means by which the executive and legislative branches together formulate a coherent set of taxing and spending proposals.
Might it not have been because presidential systems, which invite conflict between their executive and legislative branches, are so bad at making coherent policy and making it stick?
Such constitutional arrangements greatly streamline the legislative process and facilitate the creation of coherent public policy.
In stump speeches back then, he could wander from point to point with little coherent theme or narrative, bouncing, say, from a digression on legislative procedure to one on constitutional analysis, and taking plenty of time to do it.
Look no further than our own state, where even GOP supporters have buyer's remorse after electing a governor whose legislative actions don't seem connected to any coherent plan beyond serving his Tea Party roots.
