Top Republicans worry the tone will only get worse.
Already, Republicans are even divided on whether they should hold a legislative retreat together next year. A tentative plan that is being floated by GOP leaders is for both House and Senate Republicans to go to Hershey, Pennsylvania, with the two chambers overlapping for one day. Senate leaders aren’t sold on the idea.
The mood of the GOP is well encapsulated by John Boehner: Cautiously optimistic. He stood in front of his Republican colleagues Thursday morning in the Capitol basement, and while his colleagues sipped on coffee and ate Chick-Fil-A, Boehner began boasting of his party’s massive electoral romp. Since 2010, they’ve gained 70 seats in the House and they have the largest majority since 1928. Not to mention, they finally have control of the Senate.
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