Freshman
Republican Rep. Richard Hanna (N.Y.) compared the parties in Congress to sports
teams only interested in “winning,” and this week credited Democrats in
Congress with having “less anger” than Republicans toward the other side.
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| Rep. Richard Hanna - R |
Rep.
Richard Hanna said this to The Syracause Post-Standard on Monday according to the paper. “If all people do is go down
there and join a team, and the team is invested in winning and you have
something that looks very similar to the shirts and the skins, there’s not a
lot of value there.”He called his Democratic friends “much more congenial” than
Republican ones.
He
then went on to warn that House Republicans are becoming “incapable of
governing” by habitually deferring to “extremes.”
“We
render ourselves incapable of governing when all we do is take severe sides,”
he said. “I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much we — I mean the
Republican Party — are willing to give deferential treatment to our extremes in
this moment in history.”
But
Hanna didn't begin there at Syracause Post-Standard.
Hanna demonstrated similar
disenchantment with his own party at a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment
last March, where he urged attendees to give money to Democrats in order to
send a message to the GOP about female voters.
