Never has the disconnect between the Beltway and Route 66 been greater. A new conservative, traditionalist, populist coalition waits to be born. Yet Congress cannot find an agenda on which to stand, fight and win. For a party full of fight, a hundred battlefields beckon. If the leadership does not pull itself together soon and lay out a battle plan to rally its discontented, disaffected troops, it is going to face a nasty insurgency in its own ranks.
Vacuums never remain unfilled, and vacuous leadership is soon replaced.