When John Thune returned to the Capitol this week, he met a barrage of questions about
What did the Senate’s top Republican think of suspending the gas tax? The White House ballroom? Military threats against Cuba? Thune, tried gently to tamp down each one, with his trademark caution.
“Well, I mean, I think right now we’re focused on where we are,” he said of further international conflict, “and that is trying to get the Strait of Hormuz opened up.”
This has been Thune’s life as the GOP’s Senate leader — and an illustration ...