The skeleton warriors of the GOP

Fixing the GOP tax bill would be easy. Too bad they won't do it.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
(Image credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The best way to make sense of the Republican Party's present woes, I think, is to recall Skeleton Warriors, an obscure children's program that ran on CBS circa 1995.

Skeleton Warriors concerned the efforts of one Baron Dark to cement his position among the aristocracy on a faraway planet by means of one of more magic crystals. He was a well-bred modern gentleman in many respects, but Prince Lightstar and the rest of the well-heeled castle cabal, to say nothing of the peasant folk, insisted that so far from being a good-natured reformer, what he really wanted to do was rule the planet or the galaxy or the universe or whatever on behalf of the titular skeleton mercenaries.

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Matthew Walther

Matthew Walther is a national correspondent at The Week. His work has also appeared in First Things, The Spectator of London, The Catholic Herald, National Review, and other publications. He is currently writing a biography of the Rev. Montague Summers. He is also a Robert Novak Journalism Fellow.