A couple wayward House Republicans have walked off the reservation and rejected the ideological purity demanded by the party’s conservative base. Rep. Richard Hanna, elected in 2010 as part of the Republican takeover of Congress, lashed out at his caucus yesterday: U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna took his own party to task today, saying the Republican [...]

This is a very odd story. Richard Hanna, a Republican congressman from New York, appeared at a rally for the anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment yesterday. Now that’s strange enough for this modern crop of Republicans. But nobody could have anticipated what he would say next: As the only Republican Congressman at a rally [...]