It's Pirate Time for the GOP

The party needs to be unpredictable and bold—and grab some of Obama's issues.

Updated Jan. 11, 2013 7:08 p.m. ET

It's official. Congress is now less popular than cockroaches and colonoscopies, though more popular than the ebola virus and gonorrhea. Really. The numbers came, this week, from a Public Policy Polling survey. The House and Senate have an approval rating of 9%.

GOP governors are the party's most esteemed leaders, but they're not in Washington. The Republican voice and presence in our national debates comes from its members on the Hill. They're the ones America sees on the news every day, which is unfortunate because they...

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