article_snippet: (CNN)It looks like the Republicans in Congress have failed again.
article_snippet: Yet from a different perspective, congressional Republicans are achieving congressional Republicans goal.
article_snippet: the Republican strategy has been pretty straightforward.
article_snippet: This was all that anyone in Washington was talking about.
article_snippet: Now the GOP the GOP has done the GOP again.
article_snippet: Usually political extremism does not have the virtues that Sen. Barry Goldwater claimed in Sen. Barry Goldwater famous 1964 speech to the Republican Convention, but the Republican Convention sure can have short-term political benefits in Congress.
article_snippet: Just ask Mitch McConnell, who can barely contain Sen. Barry Goldwater grin.