The Rift

"We ran into the bailout. The bailout touched upon the larger discussion in the Republican Party. It’s not the conservatives versus the moderates, that’s the rather cliched way of looking at it. What you really have are globalists versus traditionalists. Globalists tend to view America as an economy, not a country. The traditionalists tend to view it as a country – a very delicate microcosm, a collection of individuals with different hopes, dreams, aspirations," – Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee.