Nor during the Atwater era, when Ronald Reagan was president, did the party's most extreme wing intimidate other Republicans into legislating like extremists themselves, thereby further tarnishing the party's image.
(You legislate like a whiplash lawyer tossing a box of greasy black banana peels into the halls of Congress).
This does not bode well for the government as MPs who are more used to voting for measures to deal with the last emergency do not like legislating for things that might happen in the future.
Legislating something like this may not be the best approach.
He makes a rather prosy, but pointed speech, against the complacent, one-percent Parliaments of his day: While they legislate, girls like Blade-o'-Grass are springing up around them, and living poisoned lives.
a'Region' includes also the autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, which can legislate just like a Region.
How can you legislate something like that, really?
"Let's let legislators legislate again," Boehner said, summarizing a year's worth of complaints over the Democrats' use of procedural maneuvers like the so-called "Demon Pass".
There had been no foul play, but, since a Parliamentary-reform act had been passed just two years before, amid loudly voiced fears that, unless it was legislated, the kingdom might, like France in 1830, go down in bloody revolution, the relationship between rulers and ruled was in perilous play.
"The stand-your-ground law was legislated and implemented to protect people like Ms Alexander," said state senator Gary Siplin.
