So, after a month of baying for party pooh-bahs to step in at the Republican National Convention and hand-alter the trajectory of the primary, the GOP Insiders spent the entirety of the Tax Day column heaping anger on Trump for complaining about how the system was rigged against him.
The story could fill in part of the picture for undecided voters wondering why the popular Republican governor doesn't seem particularly in step with the Republican presidential nominee.
Obama's line is closer to public opinion on the issues, but McCain's line is in step with the Republican party's longstanding credibility edge on national security.
The next step in the radicalization of Republican, and Northern, opinion came with John C. Fremont's proclamation at the end of August.
The Romney-Ryan team is the next step in a Republican plan to dismantle the social safety net that protects society's most vulnerable.
But the list of targeted programs has allowed Democrats to make political hay out of the situation and cast it as a "cynical step in the raw deal Republicans are forcing on America's families," in the words of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Democrats said this was the first step in a Republican plan to privatize Medicare, the federal health program for 40 million elderly and disabled people.
The tea-party movement did that.What do these differences tell you about the next step in the present showdown between the Republican House and the Democratic president?
President Obama took this extraordinary step in the face of a Republican Congress that has refused to do anything on immigration, including passing the DREAM Act, which would give undocumented students who came to the United States as minors the chance to obtain permanent U.S. residency if they go to college or serve in the military, and to eventually apply for citizenship if they desire.
Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation's most prominent conservative pundits.
