would be a good thing for us going forward. seniority or not, he will make a fool of us with his wild conspiracies that will now get much more media attention.

Stick him somewhere, impress on him the importance and messaging of elections. Tell him, no can do.

If conservatives want their voices to be heard, they are going to need a strategy that opposes institutional efforts to dilute their voice. Basically, the caucus needs to be strengthened against both the leadership and the committee chairmen and frankly against the power of the Appropriations Committee.

I think Erick is hunting in the right neighborhood with his recommendation to add Flake et al, but this is a secondary issue.

Respectfully, Erick, you should be focused like a laser on key rules that will strengthen the caucus and therefore the cause of constitutionalist government.

Number 1: The Steering Committee. The caucus needs to get rid of weighted voting or at the very least try to dilute it severely. Strengthening the caucus in the selection of Steering Committee members also is critical.

Number 2: Term limits for Appropriation Committee members. This is an inherently corrupting process. Members should only be allowed to serve on the committee for a limited period of time (4 years in my view). Then they need to get off.

Number 3: Subject Appropriation Committee markups to a recission process by the Budget Committee before they come to the floor. Let Budget have a crack at stripping bad stuff out.

Number 4: Bring proposed committee chairman selection back to the caucus for a vote. Someone like Upton needs to win in the caucus as well as behind the closed doors of the Steering Committee.

We need new rules to give conservatives a fighting chance. Setting up new rules before the new House meets is the best and last chance for conservatives to change the way things are done in Congress. Bachmann versus Hensarling is a distraction.

Would all be assets for the party to promote . They each have strengths and weaknesses, but all are good conservatives and far more principled than the average politician.

I would say that Bachman needs to be in the higher echelon of the NRCC as well. Her ability to raise money means she needs a high profile spot. I don’t think NRCC chair, but probably number 2.

Also if your not NRCC chair you can hold another leadership post and be one of the top deputies. McCarthy needs to hold his spot as head of recruitment. That also ties well together with his position as whip.

Back running for the RNC chair spot.

While we needed him to make sure we took the house he s stil a Moderate and mostly worthless as a conservative. He is conservative only in fiscal matters and that isn’t good enough. he needs to be weeded out in 2012 and replaced by a true conservative.

Thomas Jefferson was a Radical Right Wing Extremist
thank God we have Obama, Pelosi, and Reid to save us